Students from around the world calculated their class mean and standard deviations for their footprints and posted them on our world map.
Do you see differences across the globe? If so, why do you think those differences exist?
Did you use the calculator to try to reduce your footprint down to the average from a citizen of another country? What changes would you have to make to lower your footprint in this way? Are you going to try and take some of these actions in your daily life?
Student Footprints >
Palo Alto Student Footprint
I was really surprised by how high my carbon footprint was, and the majority of this footprint came from airplane travel, which I did an inordinate amount of last year. Still, there is a lot more work that I can do to be more environmentally friendly, and this really illuminated that for me.