Eyes Wide Open by Paul Fleishman
Readings and Links
From the back cover:
Eyes Wide Open
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
This book is available in the high school library.
Human Footprint by National Geographic
An Essay on the Principles of Population by Thomas Malthus
ExxonMobile
Gasland by Josh Fox
Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure, and materials
"Power Steer" by Michael Pollan, New York Times
Chew on This by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
There is a copy in the Intermediate Library
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
A summary is available here.
IPCC
contains several years of reports.
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math by Bill McKibben
A Short History of Planet Earth by J.D. MacDougall
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Kurt Stager
Available from Amazon.
Current Carbon Dioxide Information
The Majestic Plastic Bag: A Mockumentary
Green Metropolis by David Owen
Available from Amazon.
The Big Here by Kevin Kelly
Front Groups
To find out what these groups are hiding, follow the link.
Climate Change in the Arctic
Tiny Homes Simple Shelter by Lloyd Kahn
Available from Amazon.
Sugar Changed the World
This book is in the Middle School library.
Good Guides: Product Ratings
Climate Counts: Product Ratings
Fair Trade
Fair Trade products assure that small-scale farmers have been given a fair and dependable price for their crops on the world market.
Farmers gain greater access to credit that helps in creating a more sustainable livelihood. And democratically-run organizations give farmers a stronger voice to negotiate fair prices.
2006 Stern Review
UK Climate Change Act
An Inconvenient Truth
The book is available in the High School Library.
Climate of Doubt
Be sure to explore the links below the video for other information on climate change.
Princeton: Eight Fixes for Global Warming
President Carter 1979 Energy Crisis
Clean Air Act of 1970
Source: EPA.gov. History of the Clean Air Act. 15 Aug 2013. Web. 21 Apr 2015.
Bill Moyers: United States of ALEC
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Moore's Law
Want more (moore) information? Click through to Moore's Law web page.
TThe Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
Link here for the full text of the e-book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart.
Their book is also available at Amazon.com.
A Short History of Progress
The book is available from Amazon.
Collapse
There is a copy in the High School library.
The End of the Long Summer
Donna Dumanoski's book is also available on Amazon.
This American Life
Two professors come to odds over the fact that the state of Pennsylvania is sitting atop massive reserves of natural gas. One professor sees the extraction of that gas as a 'game changer' for American energy. The other foresees that the extraction of natural gas from Pennsylvania oil shale will lead to a crisis in public health.
Here is the archive of the broadcast. A transcript is also available.
Open Secrets
Silent Spring
This book is available at Amazon.
Erin Brocovich
Whale Wars
City Action Plans
Climate Refugees 2010
Here is the link to the webpage about the film.
11 First Steps
- Drive smart.
- Buy local products.
- Support clean energy.
- Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.
- Save energy at home by caulking and weatherstripping. Adjust your thermostat lower in the winter and higher in the summer.
- Be a smart water consumer by installing low flow shower heads and faucets. Then, turn down the temperature on your water heater.
- Buy energy-efficient electronics and appliances.
- Plant a tree.
- Reduce, reuse, recycle!
- Stop buying products from companies that pollute.
- Hold your family, friends, community, and politicians accountable for the first ten steps.
From: Action Center: Climate Refugees. Web. 21 Apr 2015.
Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
Public Citizen: Promoting Health, Safety, and Democracy
Resource Curse
The image is found at The World Education Blog.
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol treaty was negotiated in December 1997 at the city of Kyoto, Japan and came into force February 16th, 2005.
"The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding agreement under which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2% compared to the year 1990 (but note that, compared to the emissions levels that would be expected by 2010 without the Protocol, this target represents a 29% cut). The goal is to lower overall emissions from six greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, HFCs, and PFCs - calculated as an average over the five-year period of 2008-12. National targets range from 8% reductions for the European Union and some others to 7% for the US, 6% for Japan, 0% for Russia, and permitted increases of 8% for Australia and 10% for Iceland."
-- United Nations Environment Programme
Life in Other Countries
Wiser.org
Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken
(from the Blessed Unrest website).
The book may be purchased from the Blessed Unrest website.
EPA: The Environmental Protection Agency
"Making a Visible Difference in Communities across the Country: EPA must work each and every day - hand-in-hand with other federal agencies, states, tribes and local communities - to improve the health of American families and protect the environment one community at a time, all across the country. We must expand the work we do to enhance the livability and economic vitality of neighborhoods in and around brownfields sites; strengthen our relationship with America's agricultural community; support green infrastructure to manage urban waters; reduce air pollution along roadways, railways and at ports; and take into consideration the impacts of our decisions on environmental justice communities through increased analysis, better science, and enhanced community engagement to ensure the protection of basic fundamental rights." (EPA's Themes: Meeting the Challenges Ahead)
Visit the website for more information.
America Strikes New Oil: "The New Oil Landscape"
The image shown accompanies the article.
Statistics and More Statistics!
Climate Change Action Plans
"How to Measure the True Cost of Fossil Fuels"
A PDF of the article appears here.
Urban Living: Better for the Environment?
Note: The original reference was to smartplanet.com. That link no longer exists for the urban living theory. There are several other articles beside the one above that outline the urban living theory, found by searching 'urban living better for the environment.'
The March of Folly from Troy to Vietnam by Barbara Tuchman
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City by Alan Ehrenhalt
Available from Amazon and other retailers.
ZDnet.com (formerly smartplanet.com)
Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones
InsideClimate News.org
Whole Earth Discipline
You may purchase this book from Amazon.
"How Social Media Can Make History"
"The Global Mind"
Lila Page
Email: lpage@greenecsd.org
Location: 40 South Canal Street, Greene, NY, United States
Phone: 607 656 4161