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 Student Footprint (Florida, United States of America)
(reposted after accidentally placing in family footprint)
Despite my predictions that my footprint was larger than the average for Floridians, I was surprised to see that mine was over three-thousand pounds of CO2 squared (I pre-emptively apologize to anybody who does not understand Imperial units) lower than the average (twenty-eight thousand, nine-hundred, and thirteen). “Home” took up most of the emissions. I wonder if this is just my home or if this is a common thing among other people in either America or the world?
It is interesting that your emission was lower than you thought it would be. Mine was lower than the average as well.
Regarding the extent to which "home" takes most of the emission highly depends upon people. Higher-class homes might emit more than lower-class homes. However, certain homes are built in eco-friendly manners (many windows in order to use fresh air and not AC), and with eco-friendly equipments.