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 >
My Carbon Footprint!
My name is Zander, I am from Mooresville North Carolina. I am 15 y/o. My total Carbon Footprint was 13,230. My carbon footprint was lower than the average, 15,918. What was contributing the most to my footprint was my "home" category, the average for my region was 6,148 while mine was 6,602. I was a little bit surprised that my carbon footprint wasn't about the same or higher. In the future I will start to turn more things off, and I can limit the hours I have lights on and other appliances.
That is a lot of home category. You should do some more transportation.
My total was much higher, in the future I also will start to turn more things off when not in use.