Optional Blog week of 9/21

2 articles on how climate change is affecting weather

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/how-to-live-with-it/weather.html

https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

blog due on 3/11

Sick Building Syndrome: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-08/documents/sick_building_factsheet.pdf
Just read the Intro (2 paragraphs) Causes (4 paragraphs) and the Solutions (4 paragraphs) portions

A 3-2-1 response as always

blog due on 3/4

Can Uber (and uber style transport) help India's air?

https://e360.yale.edu/features/can_uber_style_buses_help_relieve_india_air_pollution

3-2-1 reply as always

Optional: The ‘Job-Killing’ Fiction Behind Trump’s Retreat on Fuel Economy Standards
https://e360.yale.edu/features/trump-fuel-economy-cafe-standards-decicco

blog due on 2/26

Two 12 minute video clips

Nestle pumping in Michigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPIEaM0on70
Califonia drought and water rights/regulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh90Tm_TH1Y

Yes, watch them both, and yes write a separate 3-2-1 for each. Lot of work, I know...

blog due 2/19

PFAS contamination- did you know you might be drinking Teflon and Scotchguard (non-stick chemicals)? Even though most PFAS contamination comes from fire fighting foams (wait, didn't Houston have a chemical fire earlier this year that used foams to put the fires out...)

https://health.ri.gov/water/about/pfas/ and https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2019_pfas_contamination/map/ (this is just a map)

Optional addition article on it:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/pfas-water-new-orleans-miami-philadelphia

blog due 2/12

How South Africa Avoided Disaster

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/cape-town-was-90-days-away-from-running-out-of-water-heres-how-it-averted-the-crisis/

3-2-1 response as always

Blog due 2/5

Fact checking a public figure with wind energy:

Read the article: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/475701-trump-rails-against-windmills-i-never-understood-wind

Then find source(s) that support or refute the statement. You can get started with this if you want: 

Fact checks

https://www.aweablog.org/fact-check-setting-record-straight-president-trumps-recent-wind-comments/

https://www.aweablog.org/migratory-birds-wind-energy-looking-reality/

So instead of a 3-2-1, give me a 5 sentence summary of your findings, supporting or refuting the public figures statements, with evidence.

Blog due 1/29

Super brief overview of environmental impacts of renewable and (2nd article) how much that would cost according to Stanford University.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/environmental-impacts-renewable-energy-technologies
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/the-global-price-tag-for-100-percent-renewable-energy-73-trillion

Read both and post you reply, 3-2-1 as always

Blog due 1/22

Nuclear Energy and our Energy Future

https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-nuclear-power-must-be-part-of-the-energy-solution-environmentalists-climate

3-2-1 response as always

Blog due on 1/15

Oil Sands

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/

Super short summary of oil sand impacts: https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Environmental_impacts_of_oil_sands

3-2-1 response as always

Blog due on 1/8/2020

1st blog post of 2020! Linking environmental issues with coal mining and coal as an energy source.

Short read, but also watch the 10 minute video embedded in the article. Video link is also
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQfR_fNruE

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/duke-energy-agrees-to-remove-coal-ash-in-north-carolina

3-2-1 response as always