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 >
Transportation
I think transportation does mean much for your carbon footprint. If you fly to another country once a year in vacation or to travel, that will higher your carbon footprint a lot. Also traveling by car every day does count a lot. There is a lot of people does not think about how bad the pollution is for the earth. Numerous people does drive to school or work every day, even though they just live like 500m from the place they have to go to, they could have taken just 5min to walk the way, easy. Little things like this does count and help you to reduce your carbon footprint and are good for the environment.