Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The EPA provides a wide range of resources, activities, and information on a variety of environmental issues. Here are a few related to waste and recycling:
Reuse + Recycling = Waste Reduction: A Guide for Schools and Groups provides step by step approach for setting up a waste reduction program. Waste Not, Want Not: Feeding the Hungry and Reducing Solid Waste Through Food Recovery lists ways you can join the growing food recovery movement to protect the environment while making a difference in the daily lives and futures of hungry families. Eco Student blog is a forum for students, educators and EPA experts to dialogue about environmental problems and solutions. LIGHTNING & ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY RESEARCH
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Locker Clean Out - Recycling Opportunity
2015 - New Resource
The Zero Waste Guide Let's Go Green Shopping offers ideas for how your purchasing decisions can make a difference. Pack a Waste-Free lunch. There is an alternative to generating disposable waste with your lunch! EPA developed the Waste-Free Lunch poster to help students learn how to reduce, reuse, and recycle items in their school lunches. Volunteer for Change: A Guide to Environmental Community Service offers examples and suggestions for how young people can make a real impact through community recycling projects. Go one step further and consider working with an environmental agency or organization. Ideas are presented in Environmental Protection Begins with You: A Guide to Environmental Community Service. | ||
The Story of Fossil Fuels
Climate Kids by NASA http://climatekids.nasa.gov/fossil-fuels-coal/
In this four-part series, learn the history of fossil fuels and the technology that became dependent on them. From coal, to oil, to natural gas—find out how people first discovered these resources and how they changed our lives forever.
Climate Kids by NASA http://climatekids.nasa.gov/fossil-fuels-coal/
In this four-part series, learn the history of fossil fuels and the technology that became dependent on them. From coal, to oil, to natural gas—find out how people first discovered these resources and how they changed our lives forever.
A New Look!SciJinks has received a complete digital makeover! Now a sleek, new, and modern-looking website, SciJinks is as entertaining and informative as it is visually stunning. With new ways to search for, view, and share content, learning all about weather, Earth science, and satellite meteorology has never been easier or more fun. Be sure to check out the new look at http://scijinks.gov.
Did you know that some satellites keep an eye on space weather?
SciJinks in a SNAP!When you think of a weather satellite, you probably think of something in space keeping watch over clouds on the ground. But some satellites also keep an eye on a very different kind of weather—space weather! Learn all about it in SciJinks’ very first “SciJinks in a Snap” video—a new series of short animated videos with accompanying posters that are as entertaining as they are educational. Check it out at http://scijinks.gov/space-weather-snap.
SciJinks in a SNAP!When you think of a weather satellite, you probably think of something in space keeping watch over clouds on the ground. But some satellites also keep an eye on a very different kind of weather—space weather! Learn all about it in SciJinks’ very first “SciJinks in a Snap” video—a new series of short animated videos with accompanying posters that are as entertaining as they are educational. Check it out at http://scijinks.gov/space-weather-snap.
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TED Talk - Mike BiddleDr. Michael Biddle, founder of MBA Polymers, provides a look inside the world of recycling. See the importance of recycling and an idea of the future opportunities in materials recovery and recycling.
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The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. Click on the image to link to this and other resources in The Story of Stuff Project.