# 2017 Sustainability Challenge!

2017 Sustainability Challenge

In this week you and your team will be competing with the other teams, trying to win the Sustainability Bowl.

The teams:

Make a group of seven students. In all, there will be five groups, one of which consists of six students.

The task:

In the upcoming week you will be participating in an extensive programme, which will inadvertently impact the environment. As an example: a simple search on Google will take about 0,0003 kilowatt-hours of energy. The excursions we make will cost energy and result in CO2 emissions. We will be eating and drinking, etc. Your ecological and water footprint will keep on growing this week.

Your task is to register any impact you have on the environment in this week, and to present the results to all the other groups on Friday night. It will be possible for you to use a smartboard. You can choose your own way of presenting (PPT, Prezi, etc).

What should be included?

Power consumption

- Excursions
- Transportation
- Use of computers
- Lighting
- Food production

Waste

- Plastic footprint (register how much plastic you have used in the project week). Take a picture of this or present it visually in some other way during your presentation.

Water consumption

- The water consumed for personal use.
- Water consumption that is part of your overall consumer habits (direct and indirect water consumption).
- Water footprint from this week (visually present the amount of water you have used in the project week by either taking a picture of it or displaying it in any other way during your presentation).

Take into consideration the idea that there is a significant difference between your water consumption and your water footprint. Eating a hamburger may not involve any use of water, but to produce the hamburger a lot of water is required.

Therefore, you should try to discover what your water footprint of this week is.as precisely as possible

The team that manages to come up with the most detailed environmental report of the week will be the winner. The extent in which you have been able to reduce your use of water and energy, and the production of waste, will also be considered. Special attention will be given to funny and playful elements, such as displaying your plastic footprint in a short video, etc.

Tools:

https://www.hivos.nl/co2-calculator/

http://www.csgnetwork.com/waterusagecalc.html

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/activity-watercontent.php

This is an example of a footprint diary. The reduction column indicates how much you have been able to save compared to your normal consumption of water and energy, and the amount of waste you normally produce.

Event | Energy use (CO2) | Waste | Water use (m3)
| normal | reduction | normal | reduction | normal | reduction

Good luck!