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 >
Carbon Footprint at home
The main problem of most is the production of carbon at home. Lights are on for hours at home while students do homework, or laptops charge all night long. It is hard to be a student, and try to preserve energy use at home when most of the appliances we need or use produce carbon, which then goes into the atmosphere and is trapped inside our atmosphere. Things like turning off the lights when they are not in use can largely impact the environment by decreasing your carbon footprint. If everyone did this, then there would be a smaller probability of environmental problems like climate change.