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  IPCC Report

  The InterGovernmental Report on Climate Change is the biggest single source we have for up-to-date information about the effects of climate change and the role of humans.  The link to the report and the attached press release point...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Health, Science and Technology
  Subject:Science, Civics & Citizenship, Environmental Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
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  It’s a Dirty Job

  It's a Dirty Job is Lesson 8 from "Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy." In this lesson, students take on perspectives of different stakeholder groups involved in determining how to deal with a...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Business and Economics, Recycling and Waste Management, Sustainable Development
  Subject:Science, Economics, Social Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

  In this video Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments -- through this video one learns...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Ecosystems, Food and Agriculture
  Subject:Science, Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Joseph Nganga on Renewable Energy

  Joseph Nganga, from Renewable Energy Ventures, discusses their work in Kenya, South-South transfer, and integration with the feed-in tariffs there. He highlights particular case studies where the value of the IP justifies...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Renewable Energy, Solutions
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Global Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism

  This video disscusses a number of environmental issues, from urbanization to the green revolution, and the problems which many of these issues have had on our environment. However, in this video, Larry Brillian, Google.org...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Natural Resources, Solutions
  Subject:Science, Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Local Solutions on a Sinking Paradise

  In December 2008, the low-lying Carterets Islands were badly damaged by king tides and violent storm surges. Nicholas Hakata, a local youth leader and community representative, explains that he and his family have been surviving on...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Social Justice, Water Issues
  Subject:Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
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  New Challenges in a New Climate

  Students will investigate the extensive adaptation of a chosen species found in Canada’s boreal forest by conducting Internet and print research. Then, given a description of the future conditions that might exist in Canada due...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Biodiversity, Ecosystems
  Subject:Science, Geography, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 8 9 10 11 12
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  New thinking on climate change: Al Gore's new slideshow (2008)

  In AL Gore's new slide show (2008), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Globalization, Natural Disasters
  Subject:Science, Geography, Health & Wellbeing, Social Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Next Generation Textbook?

  In this 4:35 min. TED Talk presentation, an independent small publisher has produced an innovative digital textbook for the iPad. Titled Our Choice, it is written by Al Gore and is the sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. It features...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Renewable Energy, Solutions, Taking Action
  Subject:Science, Geography, Business Education, Global Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  One Degree Matters

  One Degree Matters follows social and business leaders as they travel to Greenland and experience for themselves the dramatic effects of the melting of the ice caps and come to understand the planetary effects of climate change and...

  Type:Video
  Topic:Business and Economics, Ecosystems, Water Issues
  Subject:Geography, Economics, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies
  Level:Secondary
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