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 very surprised to see just how quickly the kgs of CO2 can accumulate in one specific area of my day to day life. I was meeting or falling far below most of the averages, but I almost tripled the transportation allotment for people in my region. Just one plane trip can amount to thousands of kgs of CO2, and that's only inluding me within national trips.