March 9:  Students played a board game which illustrated consequences of choices of different modes of transportation.  The Greenhouse effect was discussed.

March 10:  Students choices about buying consumer products.  Our speaker also referred to Chris Jordan photography:  Running the Numbers, which looks at contemporary American culture through the lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.

CELL PHONES

Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.

PLASTIC BOTTLES

Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.