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 >
Awareness
I believe that the most crucial thing in order to improve the environment is awareness. Through the footprint calculation, I became aware that my carbon usage is rather big than what I expected. It makes me think deeply and reflex on how I have been living and the 'luxuries' that are not necessary but instead just add up to the amount of carbon that we emit daily. I guess that at the end, awareness is the only antidote that we can use in order to save this world and after being aware and knowing what is happening and what we can change, actions will/have to follow.