submit as an attachment to an email to me your info/results from  
#s  3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
no later than May 1st 

​Our carbon footprints are the total amount of greenhouse gases like methane and carbon that we generate through our behavior. The IPCC  has identified there needs to be a drop of the average global carbon footprint (per year per person) to less than 2 tons by 2050 in order to avoid an 2 degree increase global temperatures.

You will be completing a project using
a Stanford University program called I2SEA.

what is a
​carbon footprint?

1. Register for the International Student          Carbon Footprint Challenge by clicking        on this URL 
https://depts.washington.edu/i2sea/iscfc/                  fpcalc.php?version=full
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2. Access and complete the carbon                     footprint calculator to determine your         personal carbon footprint. 
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3. ​Print out the page where your total is             calculated to confirm you have                       completed this exercise.

  4. Determine the difference between your                 total footprint and that of five other                     groups of students across the globe by                 subtracting your total from five                             other totals accessed via this URL:
  https://depts.washington.edu/i2sea/iscfc/co      mpare.php


 

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​ 5. Record the five differences you calculated. 
      Explain if you think the global location                of these students influenced their                          numbers?  How/why? or why not?
  
 6. You calculated your total footprint using               information about 4 categories including:
      * home energy and appliances   
      * food
      * personal purchases   
      * transportation

   Identify one item within each category         you think you may be able to adjust to                  reduce your footprint in that category.
   
 7. Record your list of each item per category           you will try to adjust.
   
 8. Create a log by listing the four categories             and the adjustment you will try to make.
 
                               every week,                                                                for 12 weeks, 
     determine (y/n) if you were able to adjust           your behavior in each category.
                         
​    For example...
    within the category food, if you decide                  you would try to not eat meat one day per           week, record if you were able to do so for
​   each week for a 12 week period.

protocol ->

   9. Determine your new carbon footprint                 after having made the adjustments in each         of the four categories. Has your personal             footprint changed? Print out the page                 showing your second calculation.
   
10. Submit the original log you kept which                 assessed your efforts to modify your                     behavior in each of the 4 categories.
       Please don't rewrite your log.
       Submit the one you kept during the                     project.  
       I'm not going to reward or penalize
            anyone for their numbers.
       This is an exercise to make you aware of                  how your behavior affects our planet.
                      Our climate crisis seems                                            overwhelming, right?
          And we think...
       'how can one person's behavior make a                                          difference?' 
           But we are each part of the solution.
            EACH of us has the power to make a                                          difference.
           All great movements started with one                                person saying 'enough'!
     
​ 11. Discuss which behavior was easiest vs                 hardest to alter. 
         
    

submit the results of this project by May 1st

begin this project by January 24th