The next assignment for Future Craft is to take apart a product and do a source map of all its elements to track the true carbon footprint of an object.  There are a couple approaches to this problem:

• physically disassembling an object and investigating its parts
• taking a product and virtually breaking it down to where it might have come from

Part of me finds the appeal in taking a seemingly “green” product or activity and showing how it actually isn’t as eco-friendly as you think it is…sort of like a “hey, I’m disproving your assumptions” sort of thing.  One idea that popped into my mind was looking at planting a tree as an example of this approach, but after listing its components, I quickly found…yeah, it’s actually pretty green, outside of the potential fertilizers, water consumption, and maybe the origins of the shovel used to dig the hole.

Other options include:

• chocolate
• solar panels
• my alarm clock that no longer tells the right time and is probably older than I am

In just a couple days we’ll see what I came up with…