Human-Scale Impact

Mickey,

Here is a great (!) website to help illustrate human impacts. And the artist has updated the site with new 2008 images. www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php "Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books."

Sarah

Mickey,

Here is the other project I was thinking of (click on Eat Draw Play under Projects): http://www.tattfoo.com/projects.html This actually was done with a university class, so its spot on for you...

J.

Jess Sand
Principal
http://www.roughstockstudios.com
Roughstock Studios
PO Box 460010
San Francisco, CA 94146

This might be helpful. While it doesn't break the components of sustainability down to a classroom level, it does give a very impactful illustration of the inequality of resources in the world. This is generalized to water, internet, computers, housing, finances, etc. If you have not seen this previously, it is well worth the 60 seconds.

Slideshow: http://www.miniature-earth.com/me_english.htm

Website: http://www.miniature-earth.com/

This was slideshow was created from Donella Meadow's State of the Village Report: http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn338vill ageed

Adam Segel-Moss,

LEED AP Green Building Outreach Coordinator,
Fresh AIRE Arlington County
Department of Environmental Services
Utilities and Environmental Policy Division
2100 Clarendon - Suite 710,
Arlington, VA 22201
OFFICE 703.228.3066
FAX 703.228.7134
EMAIL [email protected]
www.arlingtonva.us/climate

Mickey,

Heres one project that comes to mind that could be easily adapted to a classroom setting: http://www.frogdesign.com/frogblog/trash-talk-introduction.html Theres another Im thinking of but I cant seem to find a linkwill do some more digging and post later.

Best,
Jess

Jess Sand
Principal
http://www.roughstockstudios.com
Roughstock Studios
PO Box 460010
San Francisco, CA 94146

My favorite example on reducing global warming through recycling:

Recycle paper - each ton recycled saves 17 trees, over the course of one year, those trees store 250 pounds of CO2. For younger audiences, I may have 17 students stand up to "show" the trees and 4 or 5 kids to "show" the weight.

Marta Keane,

Recycling Program Specialist
Will County Land Use - Waste Services
58 E. Clinton Street, Suite 500
Joliet, IL 60432
815-774-4343
[email protected]

I saw a picture once that illustrated how much coal had to be burned to provide electricity for one person for one year. The conversion is roughly 1 # of coal per kWh so a person who uses 400 kWh/month would be responsible for roughly 2 1/2 tons of coal per year (it is a good size pile). Of course this only works in areas of the country that get their electricity primarily from coal.

Thanks & Adios,
CJD

Carol J. Dollard, P.E.,
LEED AP Utility Engineer
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