Assignment:
Report: My Personal Carbon Footprint
For three full days, record all your activities that use up fossil fuels, such as:
- Driving your car ( 45 miles a day )
- Heating your house ( 4 hours a day )
- Doing laundry ( once in those 3 days for 2 hours )
- Doing dishes ( does's use the dish washer at all )
- Taking a shower with hot water ( 20 minutes each day )
- Etc, etc.
Describe these activities in one paragraph for each day. Note: Your grade will NOT depend on how much or how little fossil fuels you consume, only on your honest and careful analysis!
Use your monthly electricity bill, natural gas bill, and gasoline bill, to calculate your personal consumption of the different types of fossil fuels per month. Make a table with your monthly consumptions of the different fossil fuels. Then calculate the corresponding release of CO2, and put it into the same table.
Describe how you determined the CO2 emissions. Show your calculations! Please use Microsoft equation editor (under "insert -> object"). Do NOT try to write equations with the regular text editor.
In the conclusion, assess the amount of your CO2 emissions. Explain if and how you might be able to reduce your carbon footprint.
The report should be about 2 to 5 pages long, double-sided.