I calculated my carbon footprint on this website and it is  4145 kgs of CO2 per year. I was rather surprised because I thought that it would be much higher. It is so low because I almost never travel outside of the city, nor do I go out with friends often. I am also a vegetarian so that caused it to be lower as well. My biggest downfall is that I use A LOT of plastic water  bottles. However I have been trying to lower this number by bringing reusable bottles to school and recycling the bottles that I do use. One other thing I can improve on is eating more locally grown and organic food which is not only better for the environment, but better for my health as well.

I agree with Alyssa H. My biggest downfall is probably traveling or using so much paper to take notes in class. I'm realizing how much paper I really use, and frankly, it scares me! I'm not so good on the whole vegetarian thing either... whoops!

My carbon footprint was huge, over 40,000 kg, but 30,000 of that came from the 7 round trip  flights that I took, 3 of which were for field trips.  Along with that, I Like Moriah, use a pretty ridiculous amount of paper in class, and will try to use less paper.

Same, Margo! I go through so many notebooks a year, and I don't even completely fill them up; there are always a ton of blank pages at the end. (A HUGE waste; it's pretty bad) That's why I'm so excited that our school is very electronic. The fact that we can take notes and do assignments on computer and how they give us computers is a lot easier for me than lugging around a bunch of notebooks!