Learners' carbon footprint as basis for developing energy sustainability action plan

This research study assessed the learners' carbon footprint among grade 9 learners of Batasan Hills National High School [Batasan Hills, Quezon City, Philippines].before and after the intervention in control and experimental groups. The demographic profile such as monthly family income; number of siblings in the family; distance of residence to school; number of meals per day; utility bills and mode of transportation were utilized for demographic profile. The result of the experiment was used as basis for developing an energy sustainability action plan among grade 9 learners of Batasan Hills National High School. The study used a quasi-experimental design. It was participated by 200 learner-respondent identified using non- probability purposive sampling technique. The learner-respondent were divided in to two groups in random selection. From each section 100 subjects were assigned as the control group and 100 as the experimental group. Strategic Intervention Material (SIM) utilized in the study undergone validity test. Statistics such as frequency, percentage and ranking were employed to come up with the result of the demographic profile. Average mean was utilized to measure the carbon footprint of the learner-respondents on the pre-assessment and post-assessment. In the test of significant difference, paired t-test was utilized.The result showed that majority of the respondents confined on level 2 and 3 aggregate family income a low family income group; most of the learner-respondents has a member of 2 to 6; most of them are relatively near the school community; most of them eat four times a day; manage to decrease their utility bills and usually walk and ride a tricycle when going to school. The mean and standard deviation of both group's pre-assessment and post-assessment decreases with an average carbon footprint verbal interpretation for control and experimental group. There is no significant difference on the carbon footprint of learner-respondent before and after the discussion in control group. There is a significant difference on the carbon footprint of the learner-respondents before and after the intervention in experimental group.