Notes for Carbon and Ecological Footprint

1. People Affect the Environment
Ecological & Carbon Footprint
Human Environment
Interaction

2. Questions To Be Answered:
1. How do people use their
environment?
2. Have they changed it?
3. How have people responded to
changes in their environment?

3. Ecological
Footprint

4. Current Levels

5. Ecological Overshoot

7. List the various ways you depend on
energy in a typical day.

8. List the various ways you depend on
energy in a typical day.

9. American Energy Consumption
● Americans consume
40% more energy per
person compared to
the world average.
World
5.0 TOE/person
United States
8.35 TOE/person
Total primary energy supply TOE (tons of oil equivalent) per person (2000).
lEA, Energy Balances of OECD Countries 1999-2000 (lEA, Paris, 2001).

10. Where does our energy come from?

11. Where does our energy come from?
● Fossil fuels (Natural Gas, Oil, Coal) 68%
● Nuclear Power 19%
● Hydropower 7%
● Wind Power 3.56%
● Solar Power .11%
● Other Renewables 2.33%
Renewable Energy
Statistics taken from the following site:
"Frequently Asked Questions." U.S. Energy Information Administration. N.p., 9 May 2013.
Web. 3 Apr. 2014.

12. What is the connection between
Energy and Carbon Dioxide?

13. What is the connection between
Energy and Carbon Dioxide?
=
Energy Use
CO2
makes up approximately
85 percent of total greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions.

14. What is the connection between
Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming?
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/page.cfm?tagID=273

15. What human activity produces the
most greenhouse gases (CO2
)?

16. What human activity produces the
most greenhouse gases (CO2
)?
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2004, EPA.
1. Electricity Generation
2. Transportation
3. Industry
4. Agricultural
5. Commercial
6. Residential

17. The average person generates 94 lbs.
of CO2
per day.

18. Carbon Footprint

19. Activity 1:
What is your Carbon Footprint?
● Go to EPA’s Carbon Footprint Calculator
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html

20. Sustainability
rates of renewable resource harvest,
pollution creation, and non-renewable
resource depletion that can be
continued indefinitely.

21. Dr. Seuss's
The Lorax can be
used to help
students discover
the concept of
sustainability.