Footprint Analysis
​Calculate Your Footprint
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During Week 2, search for “footprint calculator” on Google.
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Calculate your footprint with three to five different websites and collect the data.
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​Read
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During weeks 1 & 2, we will be reading from Berners-Lee's How Bad Are Bananas?
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Take some time to consider how much of an impact you really have.
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​Compose
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Write a 750-1000 word (plus) examination of what you think the data means, include what you think is missing from the calculations, what worries you when you see the results, and how you could do better. I would also like to know how you think that your footprint and how you live is associated with the current state of the climate. You might also think about why humans (including us) have a difficult time changing.
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Alternative: Create a Prezi or other slide show and present to the class.
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Include the data you collected about your footprint and create a Works Cited (MLA 8) that references all of the websites and sources you accessed.
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​Due
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Thursday, 31 January at midnight
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Anyone who chooses to present will also present this day.
​Description
To start off the semester, I would like you to do a self analysis. I would like you to analyze your carbon footprint (including your response to the estimated value of your carbon footprint) and make goals for how you would like to see yourself improve your carbon footprint. Please be specific.
To start off, I would like you to do a couple of things:
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Explore three to five online carbon footprint calculators. While these sites are not exact, they can give you a rough estimate of where your carbon footprint stands through looking at transportation, energy consumption, food consumption, etc. These sites often ask for household information. You may have to choose between you family home or your school home.
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Explore Berners-Lee's How Bad Are Bananas? beyond what we are reading for class. There may be sections that we don't discuss that are relevant to your life.
What I am looking for from you for your final essay is an analysis of your footprint, where you stand, what your concerns are, and how you think you can and will change over the semester and the years to come. Let Berners-Lee influence your thinking in this matter. Think deeply about your concerns, and feel free to leave some unanswered questions. Hopefully, acknowledging where we stand (literally) will help ground and guide us as we enter this new semester.
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