Project Needs Assessment

Kayla Reed
IDST 4114
7/19/08
Prof. Augustine


Project Needs Assessment
For the last couple of days I have been really trying to come up with a topic that I could possibly find a lot of information on and have a topic that would be really interesting to study more about. So, while I was watching the news the other day I saw how a high school decided that they wanted to “Go Green,” and how much money they saved by making this change. So not only did the school save around 100,000 dollars, but they were also helping to save the environment. This is why I have decided to study more on the topic or “Going Green,” and how much recycling can really help to save energy and our entire environment. I thought that this was a perfect topic considering it goes along with Science which is one of my minors, and I feel like I will be able to find a lot of information on the topic. I think that this is an extremely important topic because I don’t think people truly realize how much energy that they can save when they decided to recycle. Even if a person recycled one glass bottle, they will be recycling enough energy to power a television for 8 hours. I think that that is pretty amazing when you really think about it. Also I found where there has been an increase in companies deciding to embrace environmentally safe practices and are saving hundreds of millions of dollars a year. I also think that this topic is truly interdisciplinary because it involves so many different areas of study. It can involve schools, businesses, industries, and our environment. If more people in the world decided to “Go Green,” they will also be helping to fix more problems in all of those areas of study in our environment and help make it more “eco-friendly.”