I enjoyed participating in the Stanford University project, it was really interesting.
My ecological footprint was higher than the mean of the Canary Islands.
Now I will try to be more responsible with the environment and consume less energy.

I noticed my carbon footprint was not the amount I expected it to be. My family recycles and buys organic food, but other things that I did not think were very important really effected my footprint. Like leaving the heater on for a month or taking long showers. I found 50 ways to reduce my footprint here http://www.50waystohelp.com/. You should check this website out, it has some great ways to help the environment. Some of these things can benefit your health too. Does any one else have some more ways to easily reduce your footprint?

Good website! It listed many helpful tips to reduce anybody's carbon footprint. I also found these two websites:
http://ehtrust.org/health-and-environme … our-world/ 

http://greatist.com/happiness/ways-help-environment

One comment I found interesting in the first website was to avoid Styrofoam because it cannot be recycled and it does not break down naturally in the environment. In the second website, it includes many different ways that you could do simple tasks. It also provides encouragement to do those actions in the text.

When I used the online calculator to calculate the amount of CO2 I give off per year I found my number much higher than I thought it would be. I had estimated my carbon footprint would be around the same as the average person living in Texas, I was wrong.  When I had finished calculating all the sections, I went back to find out why my average was so much higher. I found that even though co2 emissions were lower than the average in food, house, and technology. I also found that transportation was the section where my carbon footprint really added up. My family has 17 plane rides in the past year that were at least four hours long if not longer. This section is where my carbon footprint really add up.

My carbon footprint is also higher than I thought it would be and it mainly because of home and transportation. Though, food and purchases are my low points, I still have a high carbon footprint. For me I expected to have at least somewhat of a lower footprint. I knew that transportation would kill my footprint, but not that much.

Also the same thing for me, transportation raised my carbon footprint a lot, purchases, food and the heating system don't raise the footprint as much as the transportation does. It was quite unexpected, I didn't know transportation could affect it that much.

My footprint is very high. I think that could reduce my footprint and not pollute the world .
we dont have care of the planet. We have to take care. Because if we don't take care, we could destroy ourselves.

Hi parnter!! Good work!

Hey, everyone my name is Casey. I found out that my carbon footprint is well above the average for Florida. On cause of this is my transportation. Another cause is my home energy. We do not turn out the lights when we leave a room all of the time. Which increases my carbon footprint. In my house we also have a lot of light bulbs. In my house we always keep it cool at 72 F. This increases my CO2 emissions as well. How I plan to reduce my CO2 of home energy is by remembering to turn off the lights when I leave a room. I can also turn the air up to 74 F during the summer, so not to waste energy, If you haven't figured out your carbon footprint yet a good website to use would be http://www.climatecare.org/climate/low-carbon-living/ . They help you find your carbon footprint for air travel, transportation, home energy, and more. They also tell you ways to conserve your heating, electricity, water, and food energy. The first step to reducing your carbon footprint is figuring out which area in your daily life uses up the most carbon.

Hi, my name is Rachel. My carbon footprint was 14,453kgs compared to my regions footprint of 15,918kgs. My transportation was my highest footprint total at 5,500kgs. My home was my next highest at 4,370kgs. My family always turns the lights off whenever we leave a room, and we only try to use our air conditioning and heating when it is necessary. However, it appears that we still need to find ways to lower our home footprint. Thanks for the website link! It looks really helpful. Since my transportation uses up the most carbon, I will try and focus on finding ways to reduce this. I drive to school, my sports practices, my friends houses, and all of my clubs. I can find ways to carpool and possibly even walk whenever possible

Hi, My name is Dylan and transportation was also the largest part of my total. This was because of how many international trips i took this year. I agree that turning off the lights when your not in a room will greatly help reduce your total. Personally I try to turn off lights when I leave a room and I believe that these greatly help reduce your totals.

My total foot print is 5,753 kgs of Co2 per year, and the average for Guatemala is 1,954 kgs. This means that I'm above the average, and that I need to work more in my transportation, home, and food habits to decrease this number. I'm going to be aware of my actions, and I'm going to put a lot of effort improving my footprint to be under the average. The part that I most need to work on is in transportation; this is because my school is really far from my house, so my dad has to drop me down and pick me up every day. I will try to decrease this by trying to use another type of transportation on the weekends.

My carbon foot print is 8948kgs,  its interesting because i tought i would have less, but then i started thinking and came to conclusion that its becase i drive to school and back every Day and thats more than 80 km, normal person drives a lot less, but i think public tranport has less polution that what they set for it.  Environment is really inportant so people can live better.

I agree with you Casey, the first step to reducing your carbon footprint is to identify what areas you expend the most energy in, and what areas can be reduced the easiest. Seeing that a lot of your carbon footprint comes from your home makes me think of a very important point. How much does your location in the world effect your carbon footprint? I thought of this because where I live (NC), keeping the temperature at 72 degrees year-round wouldn't be a very large expense, however keeping the air at 72 in a place like Florida would be much much more resource intensive.

Hi Casey, My name is Daniel. Our Carbon Footprints are very different. My Home life was the highest and my Transportation was the lowest. My Home life was above average because of the A/C and the lights that we leave on. My transportation is low because I don't have a car.

Our footprints were pretty similar Casey. Like you said, an easy way for everyone to help with their carbon footprint is to be conscious and careful with how they use their lights, appliances, and air conditioning. But unfortunately, we both have high transportation footprints that are difficult to deal with because in my region at least you almost have to have a car just because of how the highways space everything out. So that's hard to reduce without spending lots of money on a new more efficient car and that's not something everyone can afford to do to reduce their footprints.

Hello everyone!! My name is Polychronis and i am from Greece! I live in Makrochori and i am so excited because i can chat with people around the world.
Well my total carbon footprint would be lower than the average person in Greece because is 4490 kgs of CO2 per year, compared to
an average of 9047 kgs for Greece. Specially for transportation 249 kgs, for home 2277 kgs, for food 1826 kgs and for purchases 139 kgs.
I wait your critique or your comments!!

Hello, I'm Maria, from Valencia, Spain. I'm very exited because I can speak with different people around the world. So, my total footprint is lower than your, It's 3685kgs of CO2 per year. I never travel and my family grow a lot of fruit and I think that it's the cause. Anyway, I want to contaminate less because of I'm reading this website. What's else, on other hand, your house looks like very enviorement unfriendly, you ought to improve it. Good luck! You can. [IMG_20151114_134203](//muut.com/u/footprint/s1/:footprint:AuYa:img_20151114_134203.jpg.jpg)

Hi Polychronis I am from Greece too. Nice to meat you.

Hi. My name is Harpa and I live in Iceland.

My footprint for transportation was very high. I got 10914 kgs but in my region it is 2624 kgs. It´s because I travelled to Colorado USA and the flight was 8 hours each way. If we want to travel to other countries, we have to fly because we live on an island in the middle of the ocean. But in Iceland I always walk or ride a bike to school and to other activities. I try to walk as much as I can, because cars pollute a lot.

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