Download or read book Reducing Your Community s Carbon Footprint Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Download or read book Reducing Your Community s Carbon Footprint Greener Vegetables Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This is the chapter slice "Greener Vegetables Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your Community's Carbon Footprint"** Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Download or read book Reducing Your Community s Carbon Footprint Reduce Reuse Recycle and Plant Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This is the chapter slice "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Plant Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your Community's Carbon Footprint"** Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Download or read book Reducing Your Community s Carbon Footprint Climate is Changing and So Must We Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This is the chapter slice "Climate is Changing, and So Must We Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your Community's Carbon Footprint"** Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Download or read book Reducing Your Community s Carbon Footprint Some Green Towns and Cities Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This is the chapter slice "Some Green Towns and Cities Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your Community's Carbon Footprint"** Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Download or read book Reducing Your Community s Carbon Footprint Is the Future Green or Grim Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This is the chapter slice "Is the Future Green or Grim? Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your Community's Carbon Footprint"** Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Download or read book Reducing Your Community s Carbon Footprint The Transportation Footprint of a Community Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This is the chapter slice "The Transportation Footprint of a Community Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your Community's Carbon Footprint"** Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Download or read book Drawdown written by Paul Hawken and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • New York Times bestseller • The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.

Download or read book How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint written by Joanna Yarrow and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small changes can add up to big results for the planet--and your wallet. How to reduce you carbon footprint is full of easy ideas for saving energy and cutting pollution that will also benefit your health and finaces. Enjoy doing your part to protect the earth.

Download or read book Review of the Draft Fourth National Climate Assessment written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By taking steps to adapt to and mitigate climate change, the risks to society and the impacts of continued climate change can be lessened. The National Climate Assessment, coordinated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is a mandated report intended to inform response decisions. Required to be developed every four years, these reports provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date evaluation of climate change impacts available for the United States, making them a unique and important climate change document. The draft Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report reviewed here addresses a wide range of topics of high importance to the United States and society more broadly, extending from human health and community well-being, to the built environment, to businesses and economies, to ecosystems and natural resources. This report evaluates the draft NCA4 to determine if it meets the requirements of the federal mandate, whether it provides accurate information grounded in the scientific literature, and whether it effectively communicates climate science, impacts, and responses for general audiences including the public, decision makers, and other stakeholders.

Download or read book How Bad Are Bananas written by Mike Berners-Lee and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build carbon considerations into our everyday thinking. The book puts our decisions into perspective with entries for the big things (the World Cup, volcanic eruptions, the Iraq war) as well as the small (email, ironing, a glass of beer). And it covers the range from birth (the carbon footprint of having a child) to death (the carbon impact of cremation). Packed full of surprises — a plastic bag has the smallest footprint of any item listed, while a block of cheese is bad news — the book continuously informs, delights, and engages the reader. Solidly researched and referenced, the easily digestible figures, statistics, charts, and graphs (including a section on the carbon footprint of various foods) will encourage discussion and help people to make up their own minds about their consumer choices.

Download or read book Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint Footprints At The Mall And In The Trash Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **This is the chapter slice "Footprints At The Mall And In The Trash Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint"** Engage students in global climate change by personalizing their own carbon footprint. Our resource introduces students to the effects of global climate change and its human-related causes. Start with a detailed look at the greenhouse effect. Identify all the ways a kitchen uses energy. Break down the steps involved with farm to table and how each step adds to the carbon footprint. Calculate your travel footprint and learn ways to help reduce it. Understand that your carbon footprint doesn't lessen after throwing things out. Look at the bigger picture and calculate how your own carbon footprint fits with the community. Help reduce the carbon footprint by brainstorming ways to make environmentally-friendly rules part of the social contract. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Download or read book Smart Growth Communities written by Megan Mae Homison and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sustainability is extremely important in order to protect the environment and sustainable design has been a popular trend of suburban living in the 21st century. Smart growth is a sustainable approach to greener cities, which could limit our resource usage. One of the design elements of a smart growth community is to decrease an individual's carbon footprint by means of transportation such as walking, biking, or use of public transportation. Carbon footprint is comprised of several different factors but transportation is a large component and today there are nearly as many automobiles as there are people in the U.S. Today, urban sprawl has become overwhelming and smart growth communities are creating an outlet for individuals to live in the suburbs but have the convenience of amenities within walking distance. Smart growth communities can reduce an individual's carbon footprint because they include the development of mixed use amenities in one convenient location. There are several successful smart growth communities located in the U.S. These communities present a great example of the success a smart growth community can impose. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of two small-scale smart growth communities in Pittsburgh, PA based on the usage of amenities, transportation used, and average distance of travel. The participants at each location answered several questions that were multiple choice and fill in the blank. The results demonstrated that most of the residents, in both locations, drive more miles than expected for residents that live in a smart growth community." -- Abstract.

Download or read book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster written by Bill Gates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

Download or read book How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint written by Amanda Bishop and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the concept of a "carbon footprint" and describes ways that people can conserve energy and protect the environment.

Download or read book The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Your Carbon Footprint written by Nancy S. Grant and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the first step toward a better environment. Awareness of global climate change has reached critical mass around the world, and people are looking to see how the choices they make affect the environment. This highly practical and easy-to-use reference helps readers understand how to do their part to combat global warming in simple, but effective ways. • Clear explanations of the relationship between energy use and carbon emissions, and an individual’s carbon “footprint.” • The topic is gaining momentum on a worldwide basis. • Easy-to-use, with accessible information.

Download or read book Carbon Footprint Big Book Gr 5 8 written by George Graybill and published by Classroom Complete Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students will learn how they can improve the planet with our Carbon Footprint 3-book BUNDLE. Start engaging students in global climate change by personalizing their Own Carbon Footprint. Identify all the ways a kitchen uses energy. Calculate your travel footprint and learn ways to help reduce it. Next, bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their School's Carbon Footprint. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. Finally, encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their Community's Carbon Footprint. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Each concept is paired with a carbon footprint calculator. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.