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 >
Abby McLain
Abby
Mooresville NC, US
14
Total Footprint - 6,308
My footprint is below average
My majority came from transportation
I thought that I would have about the same as everyone else, but I had way below than the average. I was very surprised because I was way below the average.
In the future I can walk more places because my transportation was the highest, I can eat more vegan meals than I do meals with meat
My transportation was also very high. I would think that mine footprint would be higher but it was not. I travel all the time for basketball so I would think that I would have a higher over all average. I really can not cut out my transportation because my games are usually 45 minutes away at least.
If your transportation emits the most, try cycling. You will lower your CO2 emitting but your body will also be thankful to you! And if the places you're visiting are too far away, try getting a more efficient car, maybe the one which runs on (chemically speaking) gas, they usually spend 3-4 liters per 100 km unlike cars that run on gasoline which require about 6 liters of fluid gasoline per 100km.
Food is my greatest problem because I'm obssesed with meat, although I had to cut down on it because of my disease, and I have also lost some weight along the way! 