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 >
Samantha Logan
Name: Samantha
Where: Mooresville, NC, United States
Age: 14
My total footprint is 50,020. My total is higher than the average for my area and the majority comes from transportation. My results were a lot higher than I expected. My transpiration is what surprised me the most and was at least double than what I thought it would be. Except for my transportation I am below the average in each category. I learned that it is very easy to waste carbon and create a high number quickly. In the future to reduce my footprint I can carpool with others, take less trips, and walk more often.
My carbon foot print was high like yours.
You had a pretty high footprint. But yeah if you took less trips it wouldn't be as high. It's pretty surprising.
My transportation was very high. I think if you car pull more you could save a lot of energy. I feel like that everyone reduced transportation the over all would go down.
that is a very high carbon footprint!