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 >
Wants and Needs
Phones are both a want and a need. Technology surrounds us constantly, absorbing people into a cycle that can be considered addictive, but, when it comes to having an easy access to communicate, a phone is a necessity. In case of any emergency like a fire or kidnapping, whipping your phone out can make it easy to contact the proper authorities. On the contrary, with phones, we are becoming an anti-social society. Technology, loaded with social media, ultimately creates a group totally engrossed in the wants of their phone.