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 >
My Carbon Footprint2
After calculating my carbon footprint I realised that it's way much higher than the portuguese and worldwide average. The main reasons that influence this result are the frequency with wich I travel from the island to the mainland, and the only way I can do it is travelling by plane. The other reason that can be considered is the spending at home, for exemple spending more water than what I should, etc. This makes me think about the things I should be more careful about so that I can decrease this high values.
Here are the results:
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This is very interesting to me because we use about the same amount of transportation, but mine is going to get food, and yours is going back to the mainland.
I think it's really interesting that you have to travel by plane from the island to the mainland. This causes your transportation to be way higher than mine (which is only 5,207 kgs), especially since I've never been on a plane.
Wow that's crazy! You're transportation must be extremely high because you have to travel by plane to the mainland. It is really interesting to think that you have to travel like that all the time.
Your transportation is high just like mine! Except mine is from traveling by car because I always drive to meet my friends and go get food.