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 >
Food
Having strawberries in the winter takes a lot of carbon emissions to get here... What can consumers do to limit the amounts of food being outsourced?
consumers can't do anything about it. It would be up to the companies to change the way they ship things
Or you could try to eat seasonal foods as much as possible. Or at least try to eat foods from Washington.
People say that buying local food, organic food and seasonal food is better for the environment, which I completely agree with. The problem is though, that a lot of families don't have that option because those kinds of foods are a lot more expensive. Do you think that getting money for familes to buy that kind of food is the priority? Or should we put that money towards a different issue like finding more energy efficient cars?