PDS APES 8th Period 2009-10

So, last year the APES text (published 2008) had a section on carbon offsets-first time I’ve seen it in a school textbook. There are many companies out there now marketing carbon offsets to reduce your “carbon footprint.” Terrapass is a popular one. You can offset one year’s worth of air travel (an estimated 8,000 pounds [...]

Okay, so I found this website and I think its really cool. It shows what would happen on Earth if humans were to disappear today. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Rkag4/www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

Determining Your Ecological Footprint: To begin our discussion about ecological footprints, each student was asked to visit a website–http://www.ecofoot.org/–and use the Ecological Footprint Calculator to estimate his/her ecological footprint.  After each student emailed his/her results, Mr. Willard was then able to compile the results and determine an average for our class ecological footprint. In our [...]