I live in a Tiny House that is only 480sq feet large, and when it comes down to my house footprint, it is only half of the average size. But that doesn't matter when my transportation is much larger than it should be. I live in Maine where it is rather hard to walk/bike to places because nothing is very close to where you live. There are no buses to ferry people around, so the best option to reudce my foorptint would be to carpool to and from school. Even doing something as car pooling can help the enviroment by releasing less CO2 into the atmosphere.

I agree that car pooling is very helpful and good for the environment, as it produces less carbon per person. In our area it is very hard to use public transportation because we don’t really have any. Walking/biking would not work for many places for me because I live in Hope so everywhere I want to go is a little bit away. I carpool to school every morning, which really helped with my carbon footprint.

Carpooling is an efficient and effective solution for reducing carbon footprints globally. However, I agree with the statement that suggests this is a difficult option for citizens of Knox county and other rural areas in Maine. As presented by the data, nations that optimize carpooling also correlate to lower carbon footprints compared to those who don’t utilaize this method of transport. By this, the countries like South Africa, Japan, and Hong Kong actively participate in carpooling. With this however, these nations are highly populated, possessing dense cities and sprawling urban areas. For these nations this is an effective solution in reducing carbon footprint, but for people of rural Maine this concept is not locally applicable. With the recent development of start up ride sharing companies like Uber and Lyft, there is hope that this technology will become more widely spread into rural places like Maine. This would allow locals an opportunity to reduce their transportation carbon foot cheaply, and without disruption to their daily lifestyle.

Building off this i think that people in developing countries are more likely to carpool with eachother because not everyone has a car. On the other hand in the USA i think most people have their own cars and they are less likely to carpool.