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 >
Beaux: Mooresville, NC, USA (18)
My carbon footprint is a rather low carbon footprint. My impact on the environment includes the following levels, 842 transportation, 4393 Home, 1414 Food, 201 Purchases, which all end up rounding out to a total of 6850. I pride myself, highly in my ability not to impact my planet negatively. What surprised me the most was how my home cost towered over everything else. . . I suppose that's because I hail from Canada where we like to stay at a constant temperature, so when my family gets to the summer months we like to keep the AC at a constant cool temperature of 70 degrees F. I would like to eventually get to the point where my family switches from a major cooling system to more of a fan based and natural breeze based system, I think that could make a more positive impact on the natural world.