KristenTomberlin

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:18, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Carbon Footprint peer review

1. The addition of “personal” in the carbon footprint calculation section clearly specifies what the calculation is for and tells us clearly what kind of system is being investigated. The separation into ways to reduce personal and industrial carbon footprint clearly subdivides the calculations and methods and helps us in properly distinguishing the methods that must be implied for respective cases to reduce carbon footprint. What is the general framework for calculating footprint for industrial systems? If there is one, please mention it. Can you somehow interrelate the personal footprint with the industrial footprint and tell us about how as an individual we could impact the industrial footprint in ways other than reducing, recycling and reusing our products?

2. The proper placement of paragraphs was very clever and helps us further understand the ways to reduce industrial carbon footprint. Is there any way to estimate the carbon footprint the industrial operation will produce beforehand so that it would reduce the cost for improvement after the process is in progress?

3. The link provided for LCA analysis gives a good overview of LCA analysis and would help in giving a general idea about how does carbon footprint calculations are proceeded with at the industrial level. Same was with the Carbon Offset link.

4. The link provided for Lean Six Sigma helps and makes understanding easier. Can you provide a piece of brief information about how to integrate labour and human power with help Six Sigma? Dparida7 (talk) 01:44, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback!

I’ve addressed your question on general frameworks for calculating carbon footprints by adding to and clarifying the Measuring carbon footprints section. Currently I have addressed two standards that have been used, LCA (using ISO 14040:2006) and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard.

As for how individuals can help improve industrial carbon foot prints, I’m going to need to keep researching that. As you mentioned, reducing, recycling and reusing are the main methods consumers can reduce the end of life emissions/impacts of a product. There are two immediate things that come to mind though; conscious consumerism and promoting strong environmental policies. The first is a very vague concept summarized as: “vote with your dollar”. It has very little hard research/ sources for Wikipedia and, in my experience, isn’t effective. The second also lacks hard research and can be difficult to talk about in a non-political and non-biased way. I do believe it’s a very important and I’m quite passionate about this topic, but it may not be suited for Wikipedia or this article.

You bring up a good point about estimating carbon footprint before a process is started/ in the planning phase. I’ve added a little paragraph to the Measuring carbon footprints section about this. I would like to expand on this further, maybe reference machine learning and model creation.

Last, could you clarify your 4th point? Are you asking about how labor and human aspects/wastes addressed by Lean Six Sigma can affect a carbon footprint? KristenTomberlin (talk) 16:50, 25 February 2019 (UTC)