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 expected my footprint to be high but not to the extent that I see now. I realized that air travel definitely contributed far more than I could have ever thought and this is because of college visits and vacations. Still, I bike to school every morning and my parents' cars have relatively good gas mileage so all in all it's still a bit surprising.