I enjoyed participating in the Stanford University project, it was really interesting.
My ecological footprint was higher than the mean of the Canary Islands.
Now I will try to be more responsible with the environment and consume less energy.

I noticed my carbon footprint was not the amount I expected it to be. My family recycles and buys organic food, but other things that I did not think were very important really effected my footprint. Like leaving the heater on for a month or taking long showers. I found 50 ways to reduce my footprint here http://www.50waystohelp.com/. You should check this website out, it has some great ways to help the environment. Some of these things can benefit your health too. Does any one else have some more ways to easily reduce your footprint?

Good website! It listed many helpful tips to reduce anybody's carbon footprint. I also found these two websites:
http://ehtrust.org/health-and-environme … our-world/ 

http://greatist.com/happiness/ways-help-environment

One comment I found interesting in the first website was to avoid Styrofoam because it cannot be recycled and it does not break down naturally in the environment. In the second website, it includes many different ways that you could do simple tasks. It also provides encouragement to do those actions in the text.

When I used the online calculator to calculate the amount of CO2 I give off per year I found my number much higher than I thought it would be. I had estimated my carbon footprint would be around the same as the average person living in Texas, I was wrong.  When I had finished calculating all the sections, I went back to find out why my average was so much higher. I found that even though co2 emissions were lower than the average in food, house, and technology. I also found that transportation was the section where my carbon footprint really added up. My family has 17 plane rides in the past year that were at least four hours long if not longer. This section is where my carbon footprint really add up.

My carbon footprint is also higher than I thought it would be and it mainly because of home and transportation. Though, food and purchases are my low points, I still have a high carbon footprint. For me I expected to have at least somewhat of a lower footprint. I knew that transportation would kill my footprint, but not that much.

Also the same thing for me, transportation raised my carbon footprint a lot, purchases, food and the heating system don't raise the footprint as much as the transportation does. It was quite unexpected, I didn't know transportation could affect it that much.

My footprint is very high. I think that could reduce my footprint and not pollute the world .
we dont have care of the planet. We have to take care. Because if we don't take care, we could destroy ourselves.

Hi parnter!! Good work!

Hey, everyone my name is Casey. I found out that my carbon footprint is well above the average for Florida. On cause of this is my transportation. Another cause is my home energy. We do not turn out the lights when we leave a room all of the time. Which increases my carbon footprint. In my house we also have a lot of light bulbs. In my house we always keep it cool at 72 F. This increases my CO2 emissions as well. How I plan to reduce my CO2 of home energy is by remembering to turn off the lights when I leave a room. I can also turn the air up to 74 F during the summer, so not to waste energy, If you haven't figured out your carbon footprint yet a good website to use would be http://www.climatecare.org/climate/low-carbon-living/ . They help you find your carbon footprint for air travel, transportation, home energy, and more. They also tell you ways to conserve your heating, electricity, water, and food energy. The first step to reducing your carbon footprint is figuring out which area in your daily life uses up the most carbon.

Hi, my name is Rachel. My carbon footprint was 14,453kgs compared to my regions footprint of 15,918kgs. My transportation was my highest footprint total at 5,500kgs. My home was my next highest at 4,370kgs. My family always turns the lights off whenever we leave a room, and we only try to use our air conditioning and heating when it is necessary. However, it appears that we still need to find ways to lower our home footprint. Thanks for the website link! It looks really helpful. Since my transportation uses up the most carbon, I will try and focus on finding ways to reduce this. I drive to school, my sports practices, my friends houses, and all of my clubs. I can find ways to carpool and possibly even walk whenever possible

Hi, My name is Dylan and transportation was also the largest part of my total. This was because of how many international trips i took this year. I agree that turning off the lights when your not in a room will greatly help reduce your total. Personally I try to turn off lights when I leave a room and I believe that these greatly help reduce your totals.

My total foot print is 5,753 kgs of Co2 per year, and the average for Guatemala is 1,954 kgs. This means that I'm above the average, and that I need to work more in my transportation, home, and food habits to decrease this number. I'm going to be aware of my actions, and I'm going to put a lot of effort improving my footprint to be under the average. The part that I most need to work on is in transportation; this is because my school is really far from my house, so my dad has to drop me down and pick me up every day. I will try to decrease this by trying to use another type of transportation on the weekends.