SUNY Morrisville Carbon Footprint Worksheet

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NAME: Please type your answer after the red word ANSWER so that your answer also appears in red font so it is easier for me to grade. The number (in parenthesis) before the question number indicates how many points each question is worth – for a total of 133 points. Go to http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm (RIGHT CLICK OPEN IN NEW TAB - KEEP IT OPEN) Go through all of the steps until you get to the end. Keep it open until you are completely finished with this worksheet. (5) 1. How many people are in your household? ANSWER: (5) 2. What is your total carbon footprint tons/year? ANSWER: (5) 3. And is that better or worse than similar households in your area - by what percent? ANSWER: (5) 4. Why do You Think (guess if necessary but think hard before guessing) this calculator asked you about how much meat and dairy you eat....i.e. specifically, how does meat and dairy production create carbon/greenhouse gas emissions? ANSWER: (30) 5. In the nature.org calculator - look at the Take Action button and choose 1 climate improving action you can take in each - transportation, housing and shopping. Click on a few and read them. Tell us what three actions you will take at some point in the future AND how many tons of CO2e that will save. ("I do not plan to make any changes"- while possibly truthful will get you a zero - so play along, for the purpose of learning.) ANSWER A Transportation: ANSWER B Housing: ANSWER C Shopping: (2) 6. Did you find anything missing from this calculator - in the choices you had. Are you doing something at home that you cannot account for with this tool? ANSWER: NOW go to http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx click on the “Secondary” tab. (5) 7. Answer all of the questions and then click the “Estimate Secondary Footprint” button at the bottom. What was your original secondary footprint? ANSWER: (10) 8. Now change one of your answers – and click the “Estimate Secondary Footprint” button again - what did you change? did that increase or decrease your footprint? By how much? ANSWER: (10) 9. Now change a second answer - click "Estimate" button again - what did you change? did that increase or decrease your footprint? By how much? ANSWER: (5) 10. Go to the FLIGHTS tab in the #5 carbonfootprint calculator - and choose a return flight (roundtrip) flight from SYR - Syracuse to FLL Fort Lauderdale - and be sure to click the radiative forcing option - how many metric tons of CO2 will that produce? ANSWER: (10) 12. It is 1409 miles from Syracuse to Fort Lauderdale. Go to the CAR tab and enter 2818 miles (roundtrip), then enter your exact vehicle OR the average mpg you get in your car - how many metric tons does that produce? Is it more climate friendly for you to drive or fly? ANSWER: (20) 13. The flight calculation is a per person footprint - so EACH person on the plane gets that same footprint. So, 3 people would be triple the footprint of one in an airplane. But a car would create roughly the same emissions regardless of whether there was 1 driver or 1 driver plus two passengers. Would it be more climate friendly for 3 people in your family to drive or fly this trip? What would be the total footprint for 3 peoples’ trip in each case? Show your math. ANSWER: (5) 14. Go to www.ecosia.org It is a search engine similar to Google, but they use their profits to plant trees to reduce climate change. Search “What is a low-carbon diet?” and one of the top results should be a Wikipedia article. Summarize what a low-carbon diet is: (include examples of foods that are or are not included) DO NOT get confused with a “low-carb” diet – that is entirely different!!! ANSWER: (5) 15. Go to this Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-carbon_diet ) read the section “Overall trends” near the top of the page. What is the greenhouse gas footprint of a high meat-eater? Include the quantity in the units they used to measure this. ANSWER: (3) 16. What is the greenhouse gas footprint of a vegan? ANSWER: (4) 17. How much (in kilograms per day) can a high meat-eater reduce his/her footprint by going to a vegan diet? Show your math. ANSWER: (4) 18. How many vegans does it take to match the footprint of a meat eater? (Or a meat eater has a footprint as big as the combined footprint of how many vegans?) Show your math. Assume a ½ person is a child. ;-) ANSWER:
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NAME:
Please type your answer after the red word ANSWER so that your answer also appears
in red font so it is easier for me to grade. The number (in parenthesis) before the question
number indicates how many points each question is worth – for a total of 133 points.

Go to http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm (RIGHT CLICK OPEN IN NEW TAB - KEEP IT OPEN)
Go through all of the steps until you get to the end. Keep it open until you are completely
finished with this worksheet.
(5) 1. How many people are in your household? ANSWER: 4
(5) 2. What is your total carbon footprint tons/year? ANSWER: 37 tons CO2/year
(5) 3. And is that better or worse than similar households in your area - by what percent?
ANSWER: 5%
(5) 4. Why do You Think (guess if necessary but think hard before guessing) this
calculator asked you about how much meat and dairy you eat, i.e. specifically, how does
meat and dairy production create carbon/greenhouse gas emissions?
ANSWER: Meat and dairy products have more giant carbon footprints because of the
inefficient transformation of plant energy to animal energy and the methane released from
manure management and intestinal fermentation in r...


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