2010 Garn save the world pecha kucha
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This document discusses how online education can significantly reduce environmental impacts and carbon emissions compared to traditional in-person education. Some key points made include: - Distance learning courses result in a 92% reduction in travel-related environmental impacts and carbon emissions compared to in-person classes. This can reduce a student's individual carbon footprint from 81kg to just 2kg per year. - The cost of gasoline and resulting carbon emissions for one year of students commuting to class is over $449 million and 5 million pounds of carbon, respectively. - Using digital textbooks and online classes instead of print materials and conventional classrooms reduces carbon emissions by over 23 million tons per year, equivalent to $497 million in carbon credits.
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2010 Garn save the world pecha kucha
- 2. The Question Can being an online student save the world?
- 3. We have met the enemy…
- 4. The (potentially) Significant Difference “The Internet and other eLearning methods have the potential to radically reduce energy consumption and emissions." Open University Design Innovation Group (DIG), 2005
- 5. Driving Change Distance learning courses result in a 92% reduction in "travel-related” environmental impact. Open University Design Innovation Group (DIG), 2005
- 6. Individual Action Being an online student can reduce CO2 emissions from roughly 81kg (178.5 lbs) to about 2kg (4.4 lbs) per student. Open University Design Innovation Group (DIG), 2005
- 7. Fueling the Issue Cost for Gas Carbon Per student/year $146.30 1,107 lbs Per class/term $1,219.14 9,226 lbs Fall 2008 $449,263,968.33 5,099,753,154 lbs
- 8. Fueling the Issue Cost for Gas Carbon Per student/year $146.30 1,107 lbs Per class/term $1,219.14 9,226 lbs Fall 2008 $449,263,968.33 5,099,753,154 lbs
- 9. Cutting Costs NOT Trees! Electronic delivery of distance courses more than halves paper and print consumption. Open University Design Innovation Group (DIG), 2005
- 10. Textbooks Every glossy new textbook requires 4.5kWh of energy producing about 6.6lbs of carbon dioxide emissions. The Carbon Footprint of Digital Print, Exact Editions blog, 2008
- 11. Digital Difference A digital book requires about 1/15 kWh of electricity generating 0.34lbs CO2 per reading. The Carbon Footprint of Digital Print, Exact Editions blog, 2008
- 14. Eschew the Classroom Online learning provided impressive carbon dioxide savings over conventional classroom education. Open University Design Innovation Group (DIG), 2005
- 15. Eschew the Classroom Online learning reduces annual electrical costs by an average of $229 per student. Derived from estimated provided by Bowling Green State University
- 16. Totaling the Reduction Online Advantage Cost Savings Carbon Reduction Gasoline/Travel $449,263,958 2,549,877 tons Digital textbooks ??? 498,000 tons Classroom Energy $1,055,390,146 20,364,072 tons $1,504,654,114 23,411,948 tons
- 17. Cashing in on Green Total carbon reductions of 23 million tons would equate to carbon credits worth $497 Million
- 19. E-Learning is G-Learning Online Education is one of the most effective ways an institution can reduce its carbon footprint.
Editor's Notes
- Sometimes – when you are down in the trenches of everyday digital warfare…you have to stop and take time to ask yourself the BIG questions… Begs the question – save the world from what????
- Sometimes – when you are down in the trenches of everyday digital warfare…you have to stop and take time to ask yourself the BIG questions… Begs the question – save the world from what????
- Ourselves Each person in the U.S. generates approximately 2.3 tons of CO2 each year. The average university produces over 80,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions from heating, cooling and electricity alone…(BGSU)
- Little research has been done on this topic in the U.S., but the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) and the UK's Open University Design Innovation Group (DIG) have released some relevant studies. Their work quantifies the environmental impact of the higher education sector and describes its emerging potential to reduce the impact education has on our environment. The key finding of the UK study shows the difference IS significant. Distance learning courses consumed nearly 90% less energy and produced 85% fewer CO2 emissions than conventional campus university courses. So, where was the change?
- A lot of it was in reducing those trips to campus – Student, Faculty and staff emit 22,000 metric tons of CO2 – just getting to and from the average campus every year… and driving around campus looking for a place to park.
- This means – every student who decides to learn online – is making a decision to have a positive impact on the environment. It also means every faculty member who decides to teach an online section is making a difference both environmentally and economically…
- With the average online student taking 1.5 courses per term savings: $146.30 Every online course section saves students $1,219.14 SLOAN: Trips avoided 78,750,000; Miles avoided 2.4 Billion; 99 Million gallons of gas or almost $450 million dollars! And the Carbon savings is substantial also… But there are more components to our earth savaging habits that we can improve as well…
- With the average online student taking 1.5 courses per term savings: $146.30 Every online course section saves students $1,219.14 SLOAN: Trips avoided 78,750,000; Miles avoided 2.4 Billion; 99 Million gallons of gas or almost $450 million dollars! And the Carbon savings is substantial also… But there are more components to our earth savaging habits that we can improve as well…
- Dissertations Kill Trees! When students use discussion boards, downloadable lectures and exams, videos, email, take notes, write and submit essays, and complete exams online. Online degrees save trees. And saving paper – saves energy…
- In 2008-09, an estimated 159,062,500 new textbooks were sold Generating a total of over 525,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions SO: Does switching to digital textbooks make a difference? According to David Reay quoted from the THES, a typical book : "What with production and transport, the average paperback has eaten its way through 4.5kWh of energy by the time it gets to a reader. In terms of climate impact, this is equivalent to about 3kg of carbon dioxide emissions for every glossy new textbook." Pasted from <http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2008/06/carbon-footprint-of-digital-print.html>
- Instead of over six and a half pounds of carbon per book – digital textbooks produce only about a third of a pound per reading – Or only 27 tons – saving almost 500,000 tons of carbon emissions per year – assuming every textbook is read once – or at all. BUT: Before you get too excited about this finding – there is a dark side… With a very rough back-of-the-envelope this looks like $100 per million pages delivered. If we say a typical book is read once page by page, for 200 pages, we have approximately 50 digital book-readings per $1 of server cost. Now how much of that $1 is attributable directly to energy costs, and how much to Amazon's margins the investment in computers, land etc? This envelope is getting rougher all the time, and I don’t have the patience to plough through the details of Amazon's annual reports to find hard data on their energy expenditure, but if we say at most 50% of Amazon's web service costs are energy costs, it looks as though the $1 of server cost is translating to 50c in electricity, or about 1c per book-reading (10/20 book readings per kWh). Pasted from <http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2008/06/carbon-footprint-of-digital-print.html>
- Digital dissertation But such maudlin sentimentality CANNOT stand in our way…
- Digital dissertation But such maudlin sentimentality CANNOT stand in our way…
- In addition to savings on auto fuel and emissions and textbooks… Online learning provides impressive carbon dioxide savings when substituted for conventional classroom education. Because being an online student REDUCES CO2 emissions from classroom use – let’s look an average university – like BGSU – emitting about 80,000 tons of carbon per year or 4.5 tons per student. X 4.6M online students fall 2008 EQUALS: a potential savings of about 20.4 million tons of C02 emissions nationwide by reducing the classroom energy needs…
- AND a savings – at a cost of $229 per student – of over $1 Billion dollars in electrical costs
- BUT: Is reducing emissions enough? What if we took those savings…and sold them as carbon credits? Carbon Planet, one of the leading carbon credit vendors. Purchase: $13.21 - resell: $21.25
- Now this might be enough to get some interest… AND: if we add in the $1.5 Billion in fuel and campus energy savings…we get the answer to my original question…
- SO – Myk, you ask… Do colleges KNOW about this? Are they DOING anything about this? Well, some are…
- Lake Superior State… [play video]
- Lake Superior State… [play video]