Week Four

Hello all,

This is a continuation of my last post, detailing exactly what I have been up to in these last weeks.

Where I left off last week, I had found a good, rigorous Life Cycle Assessment of eBook production and presented it at my weekly meeting.

However, later I couldn't find a rigorous LCA of paper textbooks, so I attempted to find statistics that would enable me to carry out my own assessment.

I started with simple statistics, like the amount of CO2 produced during the creation of one textbook. Then I started adding modifiers, like the number of times a textbook can be reused before a new edition comes out all the way through how much the number of students (and thus textbooks) rises every year.

I usually left these blank because I did not know, and could ask the other people working on the project with me "How many people have used you textbooks before you?" and so on. Little did I know that the next meeting would have no answer for me.

Now, on this fourth week I didn't get very much done because I had a robotics competition. I left at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday and got back at 9:30 on Sunday. I missed the meeting, so I didn't get my questions answered.

See you around,
 - Henry