Recent Articles

What Should We Call People Who Care About Climate Change?

In Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Clean Energy

Choices for mini-project

TOP TEN SPECIES LINK: http://species.asu.edu/Top10


Organizations and Individuals Links:
The Sierra Club
Greenpeace
The World Wildlife Fund
Environmental Defense Fund

• The Environmental Protection Agency’s site: http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/index.html
Zero waste

• “No Impact Man” – a New Yorker who committed a year to not creating garbage, http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/

• A California man is sued for not making garbage! http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/city_sues_man_f.php

• The three R’s and then some - http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/gozero-waste.html?campaign=daylife-article
Local living economies/Alternative transportation

• “Local Harvest” – an organization that helps people find local farms in the U.S. http://www.localharvest.org/ Take a special look at the tab titled “CSA’s.”

• “Sustainable Harvest” – an international organization that supports local farming http://www.sustainableharvest.org/

• “Bikes not Bombs” – a Boston/international group promoting alternative transportation and youth empowerment: http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/

• Sustainable Lawrence—an organization promoting sustainability in Lawrence Township: http://www.sustainablelawrence.org/

• The Stonybrook Watershed: organization oriented towards protecting the watershed in our Central NJ area: http://www.thewatershed.org/

Oil Spill Links

1. Go to http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/  Try putting the picture of the oil spill in different places.  (Try 08648 for starters...)  Draw a picture of the spill over one of these places.

2.Go to this clip from yesterday on MSNBC.  Watch through the clips of PResident OBama's speech to Carnegie Mellon students.  What is President Obama proposing we do?  Why does he think it is important?  Do you agree with him?  Why or why not?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#37479885

3. Work on your projects

More Oil Spill Info

MEthods that have been tried to stop the leaking oil

Where Oil Has Washed Onto Beaches and Marshes

Tracking the Oil Spill in the Gulf

The Oil Spill’s Effects on Life Underwater

GULF OIL PHOTO ESSAY ACTIVITY

1. CLICK HERE FOR THE PHOTOS FROM THE ACTIVITY 
2. Click Here for some of the Articles the photos are from. 
3. Click here for a NYTIMES slideshow of photographs about the disaster. 
4. Times Topics Page for Spill

CUPCAKE ECONOMICS

GO TO THIS FILE AND DOWNLOAD AS OPENOFFICE.  OPEN. http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AppZvpGKg-s1dFI3QmhaWHBBT1BTRVZLTTBqWmRlRHc&hl=en

Make two graphs.  From the first worksheet, make a graph of price versus return on asset.  From the second graph, make a graph of one of the following: price per cupcake versus operating income or price per cupcake versus cupcakes sold in a year

Biodiversity Links

BIODIVERSITY INTERACTIVE
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001086
Why It Matters

Why Save Endangered Species?

LAYERS OF THE RAINFOREST

http://www.biodiversity911.org/FunandGames/funandgames.html#
WHAT'S YOUR SOIL IQ?
http://www.biodiversity911.org/FunandGames/funandgames.html#
TRACKING WILDLIFE SMUGGLING
http://www.worldwildlife.org/fun/games/caught/
EXPLORE RAINFOREST BIODIVERSITY
http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/lsps07_int_biodiversity/
HOW DOES BIODIVERSITY AFFECT THE PRODUCTS WE USE?
http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/globalgrocery/?TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=750
WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY?
http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/bigideas_bio/?TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=750
BIOLOGICAL INVADERS FILM CLIP



http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.eco.lp_popgrowth/









EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE



http://www.amnh.org/ology/index.php?channel=biodiversity#features/workthesystem?TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=750

BIODIVERSITY MOVIE

http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact/wwf/biodiversity/trailer56.rm

BIODIVERSITY TRADE-OFFS

http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001091