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?
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How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
There are many simple ways we can decrease our carbon footprint. Some of these have been told to use when we were very young, but we forgot about it. Some simple ways to decrease your carbon footprint is carpooling, turning off the water when you are not using it, planting trees, not using plastic bags for shopping, and much much more. These are easy ways to decrease our carbon footprint. There are many other ways you can make and even bigger impact on our environment.