Project

1. Listen to the episode ” Is Your Carbon Footprint BSLinks to an external site. ” by the podcast “How To Save a Planet.” You can listen for free on your computer or download it to your phone and listen while you take a walk or do the dishes. I’ve linked to one place you can find it but if you already have a podcast app, you can find it there too. The transcript is on the website I linked to – just scroll down. I am embedding it below as well.

2. Which of the following statements do you agree with more? Give a full explanation of why and support your opinion with evidence.

1. “climate change is a huge, systemic problem, and the only way to fix it is with big, systemic solutions.”

2. ” I know that we’re not gonna recycle and bike and beyond burger our way out of climate change, but I do have a slightly more optimistic view that individual consumer choices can make a difference.”

3. State the system you want to work on for your final project. This part is a preliminary dive into that system. Consider this your preliminary research into the topic. For this part of your project, you are going to do research on the state of this system as it is now. How does it work? How much does it contribute to climate change? Explain how your system works.

Your system should be local or specific to a particular place. Examples of systems: Public transportation in San Jose, meat production in California, Urban planning for climate mitigation in Gilroy (e.g. planting trees, adapting buildings), Urban agriculture in the Bay Area, Regional transportation in the Bay Area (how do we get around the entire Bay Area – trains, buses, highways), Water supplies in Santa Clara County. These are just examples. Choose something that you are really interested in. Please talk with your instructor if you have an idea but need some help refining it. You will be doing a lot of work on this for the rest of the semester, so it should be something you are really interested in and might have a personal aspect to it. If you are really interested in economics or environmental racism, you can focus on that with respect to climate change. This part of your project should really be about your areas of interest. Again, speak with the instructor if you want help defining or refining your focus.

Format

· This assignment should be 2 pages – one page for each part.

· Assignment should be broken into multiple sections and have multiple paragraphs. You will be marked down if you turn in one large paragraph.

· Remember to give full citations of all your sources. Full citations are more than hyperlinks – they have the full information of the source. Use APA or MLA – you can choose. Just be consistent.

Because it is [one part of the whole project, I already focus on the Public Transportation in Bay Area. Can you focus on that?