Identify an alternative scientific or technological process

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Part A

Find an environmental/carbon/eco-footprint calculator online and calculate your environmental footprint.

discuss:

the general results of your eco-footprint. Be sure to include a comparison of your results to your country and the global numbers;
what, if anything, you would change in your own lifestyle to reduce your ecological footprint;
whether you were surprised by your results.

Part B

Introduce your industry (computer system technician) and the resources it uses. In other words, what kind of environmental impact does your industry have on the world and its resources? Discuss an environmental impact you think is most preoccupying and that deserves attention. Explain why you think this deserves priority, and support your assertions with statistics, concepts, and ideas supported by academic sources.

During your research, you may find specific or general information about your industry's footprint. You may also find that the information you seek is incomplete, inconsistent, or non-existent. If the latter is the case, research your topic to the best of your ability and decide to either deepen your search or choose another topic.

Part C: Technological Process

Explain a scientific or technological process that relates to your industry (computer system technician). Use plain, understandable language, and use an illustration to enhance your explanation. For example, show what is involved in extracting raw material from the ground and what it takes to transform that raw material, even on a molecular level - into the product you or your industry use today. Describe the negative impact of this product or this process on the environment by tracing the life cycle of the product from the time it is created, to the process of disposal.

Part D: Sustainable Alternatives

Identify an alternative scientific or technological process that offers a more positive solution to the environmental concerns you have described in (b) and/or (c). What processes and systems assist it to run better, and more efficiently? Find both positive and negative comments on this process and explain why you think the alternative is better than what exists now. Note, solutions can generally fall into 4 different categories.

1. Behavioural: solutions that change individual behaviors

2. Regulatory: solutions implemented by government policy

3. Market-based: solutions based on pricing mechanisms or markets

4. Technological/Scientific: solutions based on the introduction of a new technology or scientific method

For this, please introduce one TECHNOLOGICAL/SCIENTIFIC based solution AND one BEHAVIOURAL solution. You can also include regulatory or market-based solutions, and it would likely benefit your paper to include them, however, you MUST include at least one technological/scientific-based solution (as science is a key theme to the course) AND one behavior-based solution (as we have discussed throughout the course that technology alone is not sufficient to reduce the impacts we are having on our environment. Behavior change is a critical requirement for adaptation and mitigation of climate change)

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