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. Was it your highest?
From what I have heard most peoples highest amount of CO2 release was in their transportation section. The same went for me, my guess is that i travel a lot for hockey by going to the rink at least 4 nights a week and having one or two games over the weekend which can be as far away as 100 miles. A couple of things people can do to lessen the amount of CO2 they release while traveling is, carpool, travel by bike, get a more fuel efficient car (like the Elio https://www.eliomotors.com/), or maybe an electric or hydrogen car. (The latest of which only produces water as a byproduct.) The question now is will you change what your doing to make our environment better?