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 >
take shower in less time
Before doing this test about my carbon footprint I thought that I was an ecological person, I tried to be friendly with our environment, and I am. But not in all the aspects, I tried to recycle and eat healthy food without preservatives, however I realized that my footprint carbon increased a lot with my time during shower, so I decided to take showers in less time. Being sincere I do not need that time for my personal hygiene I can take a shower in five minutes or less. That will make that the water waste be less and also will help in my family economy. (I shower in 15 minutes, if I reduce to five minutes, it will be 10 minutes less. If I do this for a year it will be 3650 minutes that I reduce water waste and also save money ) If I use less water I will pay less and help the world. A little action can make a big
By the way, I am from Guatemala
Hi, you really did right speaking about the water that we waste during showers! I used to take more than 30 minutes for my hygiene, but when I understood what I was doing I set a ten minutes timer with my iphone that really helped me stick to the new rule! Bye from Switzerland
I think using a timer on your phone is a very good way to limit the time it takes for someone to shower. I used to have the same problem but now I shower for 15 minutes less than I used to.
I also need to cut the time down when taking showers also. i should really put a timer on my phone I think that would be a great idea.
I love the way you started off your post it was like we were actually talking face to face. Good job. I also like how you used examples of how you tried to be environment friendly. I wonder if just by limiting your shower time made a huge impact I would have loved it you told us your carbon footprint total.