Clean Energy

Task:  

Show how using electricity more efficiently, and producing electricity in cleaner ways, can help solve the global warming problem.

Resources:

Sierra Club - The Sierra Club Globa Warming Site.  Information and links to resources.

PowerSmarts - Doing Your Share - Checklist for practicing energy-saving.

Nuclear, The Clean Air Energy -  The Nuclear Energy Institute addresses the use of nuclear energy and its impact on air quality.

Solstice: Renewable & Alternative Energy - Information service of the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST).  Contains Links to sites concerning the global environment.

Friends of the Earth - Global Climate Change Page

Solar Dome - Alternative Suggestions to Fossil Fuels

Library:
Johnson, R. The Greenhouse Effect: Life on aWarmer Planet
Blashfield, J. and Black,W. Global Warming
Lantier, P. (ed.) Endangered Environments
Gallant, R Earth’s Vanishing Forests
Pringle, L. Global Warming: Assessing the Greenhouse Threat
Willis, T. and Black, W. Cars: An Environmental Challenge
Hare, T. The Greenhouse Effect
Suplee, C. "Unlocking the Climate Puzzle" in National Geographic, May 1998

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