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?
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Student Footprint
Carbon footprints around the world are bound to be different because of the different resources and the different priorities presented around the world. By using the calculator and finding our carbon footprint we can see what things we can change based on the questions asked for example people might not have known that longer showers grow their carbon footprint and now they can change that to lower it. Personally I will try to lower my carbon footprint by taking shorter showers and having some vegetarian meals each week.
I plan to use other modes of transportation such as biking to get to places within my town.