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
I didn"t expect my carbon footprint to be so big, it was even bigger than the average carbon footprint in my country but fortunately, it is still smaller than the carbon footprint of the average human in the world. Indeed, my carbon footprint was not so big in terms of food consumption and not big at all in consumption of heat, but it was surprisingly big in terms of water use. I definitely need to change something if I want to reduce my water use and do something good for the environment.