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 Footprint
My carbon footprint was over 5000 kgs more than the average which surprised me a little bit. The main reason for this overuse of carbon was that I went on vacation to Italy from Maine and that put a lot of carbon on my record. The one category that I did really well in was personal purchases. In that category I had almost zero emissions. The other two categories Home and Food, were just over the average emissions.