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 >
Green Car
Last month my father and I went to the garage, since my father’s car needed maintenance.
There I was able to convince him to consider to change his car that had a high engine consumption, with a new hybrid car.
After a short test drive my father was convinced and he decided to buy it.
In fact, the new car has an average consumption of almost half the old one had.
I had almost the same experience, my father's car was rusting out and he needed a new one, we found a hybrid and he decided to get it. It has occasional trouble with snow and ice on the roads, but it gets an average of about 40-50 miles per gallon.