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Student Footprints

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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My Carbon Foot Print Ꮚ°ꈊ°;Ꮚ

ritaaaaa

Compare the result of my own carbon footprint on the website and the average, my own footprint is much higher than the standard. I really got a shock that I used so many resources in the last year. The reason might be I travelled a lot last year so my footprint is higher than the average. And another reason might be that China has many people still in the countryside that made the average lower. But all of that, we should restrict our carbon footprint that made the environment better.

Clattimore2

Hello i'm Christopher from the USA. You mentioned that your carbon footprint was much larger than average due to traveling. Now that you are aware of the size of your carbon footprint, i'm curious as to what actions that you are planning on taking to reduce your carbon footprint. Obviously there are many ways it can be done, but what ways have you found to be most effective in generally keeping your carbon footprint low? Also you mentioned that the people of China keep their carbon footprint average low because of the people that live in the countryside. Do you find that the people who live in the country as being more conservative? More importantly what systems do they use to ensure their carbon footprints aren't
big? Perhaps other parts of the world can benefit from knowing.

shelbyh-us

Hello Rita, my name is Shelby from Florida, USA. It is kind of a shock when doing this carbon footprint test and seeing numbers above the average. I was surprised that the average was so low, but you explaining that China has a lot of countryside makes a little more sense to me. Traveling, especially flying, will definitely raise your average carbon footprint, but I am curious about your region's recycling initiates and also the averages of the food section of the test. Food was my largest category and I was just wondering if the different cultural cuisines would have any effect on an individual carbon footprint.

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