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 footprint
For my hypothesis I said that my carbon footprint going to be close or passing my regions score. It was actually not passing my regions carbon footprint but it was a little close. MY carbon footprint was 14,717 and my region's carbon footprint was 15,918. I think my carbon foot print was not too high because my food score was not that high because we normally eat out whenever we don't have time to cook and we don't buy that many groceries. I was a little surprised that my result didn't go over my region's. Because we have travelled a lot this year for vacations and after school activities But overall I think my Carbon footprint was very good.
My food score was also very low since we eat out only for special occasions.