As I am doing research for my internship, I cannot really say how much my project relates to sustainability and carbon emissions. I am working on bicycling and social justice, and also empowering and educating the youths about the significance of bicycling. I do not know to what extent that I would have to rely on data and calculations, because my project does not really deal with those types of information. Either way, I understand that riding a bicycle or walking does not release any amount of greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. This makes those two forms of transportation have a carbon footprint of zero. Whether or not I am going to have to rely on data and calculations for my project, it is obviously important for us to know the amount of carbon emissions of our modes of transportation, due to the fact that the carbon footprint contributes to the demise of our planet via global climate change and global warming. Therefore, knowing the carbon emissions of our transportation choices obviously matters, because it makes people make second choices when they travel. That knowledge empowers us to make more sustainable choices by making us realizing how we are impacted our environment via transportation. When one person makes changes in their transportation choices, they influence other people, and make other people consider making changes also. According to the latest readings, most trips are very near and do not take a long time. Still many people choose to drive because it is less time consuming, and is the most convenient way to travel. Those people usually do not think that just an innocent routine drive to the neighborhood grocery store would make much of a difference, but little do they realize that when millions of people worldwide, not just nationwide, do the same thing and it all adds up at the end. When people realize the significance, they would then be empowered to make more sustainable choices.