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 >
Small but deadly: reduce ocean pollution
A couple days ago I read an article about microbeads (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/busin … reams.html). Do you know what they are? This was a new thing for me, I never thought of those little spheres we found in our shampoos to be polluting.
In USA some states already did something to restrict the use of microbeads, but living in Europa I never heard of them. Has your nation/states done or said anything to restrict the use of this kind of products?