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
My name is Nhi, I'm 13 years old and I am from Vietnam. Well, my carbon footprint is much higher than an average person in my region. My total is 42,359 kgs. Can you guys believe it? The average carbon footprint in my region is only about 1000 kgs. Mine is like 42,000 times higher!!
I never litter, so it's fine. But I think my problems are that I don't really recycle, I always travel by car, I never close the water faucet while brushing my teeth, I go overseas by plane at least once every year, I go to another city by cars at least once every two months, I use air-con and fans every single day and a lot more.
To me, these activities are quite normal. I mean, I do these every single day, and I don't have any problems with them. And I didn't know that these activities can rise so much CO2 emmisions, and my carbon footprint is abnormal to this website. It's not like I'm stupid and don't know anything about saving the envirionment and stuff, it's just that these are really normal to me from when I was born until now.
Can you guys give me some tips on how to reduce my carb on footprint? Maybe I think I should forget my bad habits. Oh, and one more thing, if I tell my teacher that my carbon footprint is 42,359, maybe he is going to be bery shocked.
That is a lot compared to mine. Mine is about 20,000! But I can see why, you said you don't do stuff like turning off water faucet while brushing teeth, and etc.
Mines between 30,000 and 40,000! I didn't think I'd ever see somebody with a higher carbon foot print than mine. Im very surprised but I understand how if you travel as much or more than me. We both just have to try to help out the environment as much as we can going forward. Try to walk places as much as possible that is safe and just do simple stuff like turning off lights and faucets when you're not using them. You can easily get that carbon footprint down if you want!
P.S. I love your profile picture <3
Wow, yours is very high and I didn't think it would be a lot higher than mine at 33,000. You should start recycling if you can it is a simple task and not enough people do it. Yours is high because of the traveling by car and plane.
Yours is very high compared to mine being about 13,000. I think mine is so low because I recycle almost everything I can. I also don't own a car so I can't drive around.
Your average is a lot higher than mine. I don't do as much traveling as you do.
wow yours is way higher than mine. I didn't think that you would have more than me. You should start riding bikes around and start recycling more to lower it.
thats not good you need to be more careful with that kind of stuff like you showed eat more organic and try riding bikes
you need to ride a bike or take public transportation and recycle as much as possible
Your average is way higher than mine, the fact that you said you never turn off the water when you're brushing your teeth is a big reason why. Also riding bikes will be good instead of driving in the car a lot. Mine is about 15,000!





