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 >
Carbon Footprint
This past year I traveled quite a bit. I drove to many places further away and took a plane ride to New York, so the amount of carbon emission from the car and plane rides were insane. I did not know before how much carbon we really produce just by transportation, because we depend so much on it now. I will definitely be looking for better ways to find transportation, like riding my bike or walking. The website below I looked at has some really nice advice on ways to reduce the travel carbon footprint.
https://www.carbonfund.org/reduce/