SUNY Morrisville Carbon Footprint Worksheet Greetings, there is a worksheet I will need completed in regards to science. I have a link on the sheet I will

SUNY Morrisville Carbon Footprint Worksheet Greetings, there is a worksheet I will need completed in regards to science. I have a link on the sheet I will need you to use which is a fun activity to help you get the answer. In the attatchment is the worksheet. 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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