The Journey of the Necklace and Bracelet

Summary:
  You have probably seen thousands and thousands of products in your life time. All products have a story. From where their materials were harvested, how they were produced, their travel to the retailer, and being brought to you. Products do tons of moving around, let's explore what these products do to our environment.  First off can you guess what the highest polluting mode of transportation is? If you didn't answer plane then you are wrong. Planes release 0.8 g of CO2/kg per mile they travel. As you know planes travel thousands upon thousands of miles making their CO2/kg per mile extremely high. For example shockingly our simple bracelet and necklace materials produced 21446.2 CO2/kg. This is an insane amount and is the majority of the carbon footprint for our product. Then to sum up the consumption of a train and a car, a train has a release of 0.17 g of CO2/kg per mile they travel. As for a car they release 0.41 g of CO2/kg per mile they travel. In total our product travels 31478.82 miles and the total CO2/kg released is 22247.6122 g.

S&EP: Using Models: Of course as you can see up top I worked with Google maps to track the distance and the amount of CO2/kg released. Google Maps is an interactive map program where you can pinpoint certain areas and connect them to each other. When using this program we had to find exact addresses to be able to locate the specific location of the manufacturer, retailers, and school. You can even use a zoom function so you can have either a large over view or a very specific location like Michaels on Snell. One things about google maps that if very different then any other mapping i've done before is that you can see as close or a far away as you want.

XCC: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity:
In this project we dealt with a lot of quantity. You see to understand how much CO2/kg per mile that is covered on this map we need to know a few things. First we need to know the mileage that everything has traveled. Yet this is not just good enough because everything is not traveling by the same mode of transport. So we had to determine that if a product is travelling from the store to you, you probably got it by car. Then for anything within the country it most likely travelled by train. Then last of all if it is from a totally different country it is probably by plane. Now that you know this you need to find the exact CO2/kg per mile expenditure of each of those modes of transport. I mean could you expect a car and a plane to be the same. Then when you figure that out you have your perfect quantity. Being exact is key.