"The climate is changing at a pace that's far faster than anything seen in 65 million years, a report out of Stanford University says. The amount of global temperature increase and the short time over which it's occurred create a change in velocity that outstrips previous periods of warming or cooling, the scientists said in research published in today's Science.
'If global temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next century, the rate will be about 10 times faster than what's been seen before,' said Christopher Field, one of the scientists on the study. 'Keeping the temperature increase that small will require aggressive mitigation,' he said." - Anne C. Mulkern
The amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the climate and sea level.
"Uniquely created by schools for schools, the GSA is a global network of schools represented by Sustainability Coordinators -- faculty, staff. students, administrators and others -- working together to solve environmental and climate challenges, GSA Member Schools are sharing and implementing sustainable best practices, and promoting connections between schools, communities, and the environments that sustain them. We do this by offering programs, exchanging resources, and creating Peer-to-Peer forums. Guided by Member Schools goals and vision, GSA schools quantify progress, coordinate governance, operations and curriculum to advance sustainability, and connect youth to nature."
"About 780 million people—a tenth of the world’s population—do not have access to clean drinking water. Water laced with contaminants such as bacteria, viruses, lead and arsenic claims millions of lives each year. But an inexpensive device that effectively clears such contaminants from water may help solve this problem." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cheap-nanotech-filter-water&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
"Global water and air volume. Conceptual computer artwork of the total volume of water on Earth (left) and of air in the Earth's atmosphere (right) shown as spheres (blue and pink). The spheres show how finite water and air supplies are." Credit: Adam Nieman/Science Photo Library.
TED Talks Onstage at TED2012, Peter Diamandis makes a case for optimism -- that we'll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. "I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down."
Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and grad students about exponentially growing technologies.
Rising temperatures, persistent drought, and depleted aquifers on the southern Great Plains could set the stage for a disaster similar to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, scientists say...
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California Gov. Jerry Brown accepted a consensus statement signed by 520 scientists, including 48 from Stanford, that sounds the alarm on climate change and offers recommendations for solving global environmental challenges.
The Green Ninja project is a collaborative effort between scientists, educators, and artists to create compelling experiences that illustrate the connections between humans and our changing climate. The goal is to inspire personal action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The project is based at San Jose State University (SJSU) and includes faculty from the College of Science, College of Humanities and the Arts, and Spartan Film Studios. The Green Ninja concept was created by Babak Sarrafan, professor of film at SJSU.
The Green Ninja is a climate-action superhero who fights global warming by inspiring informed personal action. A series of webisodes highlight the adventures of the Green Ninja as he negotiates some of the trickiest areas in climate science. Accompanying resources highlight the facts behind the webisodes and offer more detailed science for the interested individual. Also available, are educational resources for teachers to bring the Green Ninja into the classroom.
The Green Ninja is a resource that where students can learn about climate change (information) it also aims to teach students to enrich and impact on the lives of people and societies globally for the future(technologies).
The Green Ninja is all about TAKING ACTION. It is interesting, fun and exciting. Children of all primary ages would find it easy to connect with the Green Ninja Character. There are also further teacher resources and links to explore.
Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment (ACTDEP017)
The 'Green Ninja - A Climate Action Super Hero' is a program organised to demonstrate the connection between humans and the changing climate facing our world. the aim of the project is to produce scenarios that will people into changing and as a result reducing the green house gas emission. This website is a great resource for implementation into the classroom because it appeals to students with a character such as a super hero who is fighting against crime (global warming). the website provides not only video for students to watch but also facts behind the videos. The website also provides a teachers space where resources and activities are provided so that the teacher can incorporate the learning from the webpage to the classroom to further develop the knowledge of Global warming and the need to reduce it. This webpage is an excellent resources for teachers and students learning about sustainability in the classroom, it is engaging and fun as well as educational.
This website aligns with the Australian Curriculum: Sustainability where students learn and understand that the sustainability of ecological, social and economic systems is achieved through informed individual and community action that values local and global equity and fairness across generations into the future. (ACARA, 2014).
Students also engage in the Australian Curriculum: Technologies framework where they recognize the factors, including sustainability that impact on products, services and environments (ACTDEK010) (ACARA, 2014).
"A leading environmentalist and social activist's examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people's needs worldwide." Full website at: http://www.blessedunrest.com/
"A whirlwind of energy and ideas, Stephen Ritz is a teacher in New York's tough South Bronx, where he and his kids grow lush gardens for food, greenery -- and jobs."
Check out this high energy TED Talk featuring Stephen Ritz, who creates powerful opportunities for his students to take meaningful action to support the environment.
In short, Earth Day participants not only get alot done, they also demonstrate that human beings everywhere are driven by their faith, their conscience, their sense of duty, or by a moral imperative to save the planet.
Earth's atmosphere may be more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought, which means that extreme weather events could become more frequent...
Gliding on a wave of electromagnetic force, a maglev train could travel at 300 miles per hour or faster. Designer-engineers describe the mechanics and future benefits of such superconductor trains.
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