Our Carbon Footprint | Emissions We Never Realized We Made

Our carbon footprint is bigger than we think. Simple everyday items come from all over the world and pollute the air. This brings up the questions, what do you think should be done in order to reduce the transportation environmental impact? How do you think your answer to the previous question would affect the price of products? These are questions we had to think about as we found where all of our products came from and their journey. Some simple ways to reduce your carbon footprint is to buy items lovallay and use items that were manufactured closer to home. You can also buy things from the same store to reduce the amount of carbon released when you are driving. This would affect the price of some of these products because it could be more difficult to make them locally and closer to home, therefore raising the price. But it could also mean that using less transportation costs less money and therefore lowers the price. Overall, I found it surprising just how much carbon we emit into our atmosphere and how far some items travel to get to us.

S&EP
SP2: Using Models

We modeled how our raw materials for our project have traveled. We modeled where they were manufactured by purple dots. We then modeled where we bought them with black dots and connected the two with a line to show how far they traveled to get from the manufacturer to the retailer. Then we connected the retailer to the school modeling how the materials got from the retailer to us. This overall modeled the whole journey of our product, from start to finish.

XCC
XCC: Patterns

Every day millions of American's go to the store. Buying things like food, furniture, and other things. People usually go to the store buying food a couple times a week, starting a pattern. They go to the store and buy food, then come back once they run out of something. Creating the pattern of buy, run out, and buy again. This then repeats itself over and over and over again. This creates a ton of carbon emissions, causing a pattern here. They go to the store and emit carbon driving, the store then must restock the food, causing it to emit more carbon. Then in the days, they don't go to the store, they emit less carbon, creating the cycle, carbon, more carbon, less carbon then finally carbon again as they go back to the store to buy more food.