I am doing a project involving the mobile community at RPI. As a diverse community, there are students here from all over the world. Most of us travel home for the summer and for holidays and thus use means of transportation that releases carbon dioxide as well as other emissions into the atmosphere. Driving is not as dangerous as flying (because flying emits CO2 right into the atmosphere) but we drive more often due to its low cost relative to flying so we do it more. Long trips like those home for the holidays or breaks can emit much CO2 into the atmosphere. I am attaching a file that expresses the research from a survey that I did of RPI students. I asked if students have cars and where they are from. On the file, I also recorded the distribution of how many pounds of CO2 are emitted per passenger.
My proposal for the final project involves a display that puts students and their traveling CO2 emissions into intervals depending on how far from home they are and how they get to school. The intervals will be represented by color coded stickers and placed by the student on a board to display a distribution. Hopefully, I can participate in Elly's event in the Union, since there is an environmental theme, to raise awareness for the carbon emissions that we release to hopefully influence some concern and hope for more environmentally friendly transportation.
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