The Carbon Footprint Reduction Project is a student-led initiative which aims to develop climate impacts research and implement solutions to reduce our impact!
CFR’s longest work call lasted exactly 12 hours and 45 minutes – that’s more than half a day!
(Almost) all CFR members have watched The Lord of the Rings and have been converted to Tolkien geeks. Yes, just cult things.
The CFR team started off with only 5 members, but it now has over 25 members and is still growing!
CFR’s first public presentation was to hundreds of students and dozens of climate experts at NatCon-21.
CFR won a 6-month mentorship by the POP movement at the international POP festival in 2021.
CFR has more pianists compared to all other instrumentalists combined. Alexa, play sad trumpet noises.
CFR dates back to April 2020 which is like the lifetime of an actual infant.
Everyone in CFR uses the Browser Brave which helps reduce your carbon footprint by transferring fewer data. Be Brave. (This is not sponsored)
It is compulsory for CFR members to watch The Lord of The Rings. Everyone should enjoy good movies. This is just encouragement.
Most members of CFR belong to Slytherin (shocker) and the least to Gryffindor members.
The CFR team started off with only 5 members, but it now has over 25 members and is still growing!
The CFR Project won the Best Academic Project award at the international POP festival 2021 which saw presentations from hundreds of climate projects across the globe.
CFR was invited to present at a digital event at the Pre-COP in Milan, organized by the POP Movement. We were very excited!
Whenever CFR members win games in gamenights, they gain titles such as Mr, Master, Sir, Baron, Prince, and even some special Lord of the Rings ones…
Bhavye and Ansh engaged in another Silmarillion reading contest… We all thought Ansh would win but he lost with only 2 pages left. Bhavye won yet again.
Abiya and Bhavye engaged in a Silmarillion reading contest to see who could finish the book the quickest. Abiya lost because he finished his reading in a single day.
We couldn’t think of a fact to put here. Just pretend this is funny.
Ritika possesses psychopathic traits like not closing her eyes when she showers or shampoos…
Aditya somehow only listens to the Beatles and that is both confusing and impressive.
Ved, probably the “best” cover singer of the F.R.I.E.N.D.S theme song took 8 months to complete watching the show.
Ansh is a big fan of old rock songs and causing a public disturbance. He lives with 4 other people and doesn’t have headphones so every 5 mins someone shouts at him to reduce the volume but he never does.
Bhavye joined the CFR Project because he couldn’t handle the disgrace that Ved’s carbon footprint calculator score was.
Ananya and Mihir are the only two honorary members of the CFR project.
Ritika was harshly judged by the other CFR members because she didn’t finish watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy. She had to re-establish her worth by completing it.
Aditya joined skating only so he could compete with his rival. In his first and last competition he came back defeated and never touched his skates again.
Ved has come up with innumerable excuses to skip attendance for most of the CFR game nights so far. So, what exactly is his secret?
Ansh joined Karate classes only because his mother would buy him corn after each session and Ansh would do anything for corn. Beware.
Dhyey didn’t know what pizza was until he was 12 years old. His mother didn’t remember his correct birth date for the same time (28th Oct, take note).
The CFR members once roleplayed as old ladies at a dinner party for 2 hours during a casual session
Bhavye once watched all 8 seasons of Game of Thrones in 8 days during his half-yearly examinations. He is happy with himself but his fried corneas aren’t.
Abiya is a tarot card enthusiast and will commit mass murder before reading The Oracle. Approach with caution.
The original CFR mascot was a walrus named Blubby. He vanished under suspicious circumstances and we don’t know whom to blame, it is time to put the members on trial…
The CFR Project began on an evening in March 2019, when four of our members delivered impassioned monologues before an audience of over two hundred about the state of our planet. Ved was a budding climate activist, Bhavye loved math and technology as dearly as he does, Abiya had a keen sense of justice and a love of art, and Rayna had just begun her career as an author. The monologues kick-started a six-month effort to reduce the carbon footprint of our school.
We ran into many roadblocks, starting with having to use Google Hangouts to communicate and escalating to the inability to leave home due to the Coronavirus. Although this was frustrating, we quickly realized that we needed to re-evaluate the goals of the project and take it in a new direction. After a hiatus of 4 months, we reformed CFR to focus on personal carbon footprint rather than that of institutions. The first outcome of this renewed goal was the first CFR Calculator.
The Calculator has grown and morphed over the many months we have been working on it, and expanded to include the Model House, a way for individuals to reduce their carbon footprint in their own homes, and the Gameshow, Getting Played, a way for us to share our discoveries in an interactive way. We now have 16 active members from ages 11-16 and have presented at Protect Our Planet's (POP) Youth Festival and the UN's Pre-COP26 Milan.
