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 >
Shorter Showers at Home
I think in general many people take showers about 4-5 days a week which is already using a lot of water plus the heat of the shower causes you to use more energy and your carbon footprint to go up by a little. I think many people get distracted on how long they have been in the shower and end up going for much longer than they need to. Water is the third largest water users in homes and an average of 17.2 gallons of water is being used during that shower. An average of 2.1 gallons per minutes and by cutting your time in the shower by 2 or 3 minutes you can reduce your amount of water by about 5 gallons.