Carbon Footprint

I need help brainstorming this idea for an essay.
The prompt: how can small groups in a diverse cultural, intellectual, or cognitive environment affect student education?

I was thinking that while small groups inherently can be flawed in because of group think and conformation bias, those issues can be overcome if the members of the group come from diverse backgrounds.

But, I’m not answering the question and I can’t really see any examples of how small diverse groups can affect student education.

One of the greatest challenges in achieving a global approach to climate change is the debate about who should accept the financial burden. Developing nations in particular fear that by committing to reducing greenhouse gas emissions they may struggle to build their economies. Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege investigates Kenya's rose exporting industry and its effects on carbon emissions.

can you quote the actual energy savings by using cloth diapers instead of using disposables? what scientist(s) has analyzed this to determine the benefit to the planet?

if you can’t quote a scientific consensus, please tell me why one should use cloth, not disposable, diapers and why.

considering that you’d have to carry dirty diapers with you to get back to your house after an outing with the kids, what would you do?

also consider who shall wash cloth diapers, how they are washed (hot water) and your TIME to wash diapers if not using a service (where are they now?). will you still use cloth opposed to disposables?

why would you change back to cloth diapers? why would you use disposable diapers instead of cloth diapers?

tell me the negative and positive impacts on your life as well as that of our Mother Earth, please. should parents be required to buy extra carbon credits because they use disposable, not cloth diapers? why?

I need help brainstorming this idea for an essay.
The prompt: how can small groups in a diverse cultural, intellectual, or cognitive environment affect student education?

I was thinking that while small groups inherently can be flawed in because of group think and conformation bias, those issues can be overcome if the members of the group come from diverse backgrounds.

But, I’m not answering the question and I can’t really see any examples of how small diverse groups can affect student education.

Sunday marks the deadline for countries to submit their plans for carbon emission cuts, under last month's Copenhagen accord on global warming. But reducing carbon emissions and keeping to the targets of the agreements will be difficult for many emerging nations. In India, many factory workers heavily depend on coal power - which can be very environmentally harmful - to make ends meet. Prerna Suri reports from Ferozabad, in north India, on the challenges the country faces in trying to reduce carbon emission while boosting industrial production and supporting livelihoods. [January 31, 2010]

Genetically-modified foods (GM foods) A few days ago, the agriculture dept of China has granted of the mass production/ usage of GM food, and has aroused a few discussion about it. Some peopl…

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Why plant the trees somewhere else? I already grow a lot of trees-about 60 acres of natives like oak, redbud, and cedar, some pecan and a few pine, plus brush, meadows of native grass and pasture grasses, etc. There’s probably more than 300 trees on my place. I want to plant a few more fruit trees (apple and pear) and a few ornamentals like redbud and dogwood.
My footprint is less than 1/2 the average for my country, already, without counting the trees.
Also, if you can point me to the best footprint calculator, especially one that allows me to put in good things I already do, I’d appreciate it! Thanks!
Maybe it was rainforest, but I saved my money for things I can control myself.
How do they get the figure of 12 trees?

James Boyce: Auction, cap and rebate is a better way to control carbon emissions