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A new part of the No Duh curriculum Peer-reviewed study finds that right-wing think tanks have stymied environmental progress	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
To file under 'academic demonstration of what we already knew,' here's an abstract from a new paper in the journal Environmental Politics: Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed 'sceptics' claim to be unbiased analysts combating 'junk science.' This study quantitatively analyses 141 English-language environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005. We find that over 92 per cent of these books, mos ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, messaging (all these topics)

Climate and service Obama's commencement speech calls for service to the country, planet on climate front	Kate Sheppard	27 May 2008	Gristmill
David beat me to a post on Barack Obama's commencement speech at Wesleyan on Sunday. The part about climate change and clean energy was good, but what I found most encouraging was at the beginning, when climate change was cited, along with hunger, war, and economic strife, as an area where our personal lives and the life of the nation should be aligned: [Y]ou are about to enter a world that makes it easy to get caught up in the notion that there are actually two dif ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, education, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Call to service Obama calls for clean energy activists in commencement speech	David Roberts	27 May 2008	Gristmill
From Barack Obama's commencement speech at Wesleyan University, 25 May 2008 (he was standing in for Ted Kennedy): At a time when our ice caps are melting and our oceans are rising, we need you to help lead a green revolution. We still have time to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change if we get serious about investing in renewable sources of energy, and if we get a generation of volunteers to work on renewable energy projects, and teach folks about ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, climate change mitigation, education, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Is Our Textbooks Misleading? Student charges that textbook downplays climate change		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:36 PM on 09 Apr 2008 "[S]cience doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all," says a random climate skeptic the widely used 2005 version of Advanced Placement high school textbook American Government. The text, written by two prominent conservatives, goes on to imply that the cause of climate change is ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, news (all these topics)

Reading, 'Riting, and Roasting California bill would require climate change to be taught in schools		15 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:02 AM on 15 Feb 2008 Science textbooks approved for California public schools would have to cover climate change, and science teachers would be required to put warming in their curricula, under a bill approved by the state Senate and heading to the Assembly. Says state Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), who introduced the bill, "This is a phenomenon of global importance and our kid ...
Topics: California, climate, climate science, education, news (all these topics)

Focus Group More than 1,500 schools participate in Focus the Nation events		01 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:58 AM on 01 Feb 2008 As part of a national teach-in called Focus the Nation, more than 1,500 colleges and universities across the country yesterday put together panel discussions, workshops, and other events to build eco-action momentum among the yoots. Professors agreed to work climate change into their biology, politics, philosophy, and everything-else classes, and some schools brought local politicians in ...
Topics: climate, education, environmental movement, news (all these topics)

Undriving Miss Daisy Focus the Nation events aim for interactivity, accountability	Sarah van Schagen	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This week, college campuses across the country held events for Focus the Nation, a major education and action campaign around climate change. To see what it was all about, I headed to Seattle's University of Washington campus to find out if the students behind Focus the Nation could teach me a thing or two. The event was originally billed as a teach-in, and I imagined students walking out of class protest-style or professors stopping their lectures mid-algorithm ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, ecological footprint, education, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Answering the college Focus the Nation events to heat up campuses across the U.S.	Todd Hymas Samkara	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Focus the Nation, a series of climate-change-focused educational events on over 1,000 campuses across the United States, is basically the student-centered cousin of Step It Up. And if you were one of the thousands who attended SIU (or SIU 2), you know that raising climate consciousness doesn't have to be a drab affair. It can be a colorful, creative, youth-infused party of a time. Enter Focus the Nation. Hoping to pick up where SIU left off, Focu ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, education, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

We don't need no thought control Schools should be talking about climate change solutions	Nathan Wyeth	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
At some point in the 1980s or 1990s, environmental issues became hopelessly and depressingly politicized. By 'politicized,' I mean it stopped being acceptable to talk about environmental issues in, for instance, a high-school setting, in the same way that evolution was made into a controversial subject to talk about in many school settings. I'm not sure when I would pinpoint that this politicization really sunk in, but I'd be interested in what those who were around at ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, climate change mitigation, education, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade 101	Joseph Romm	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Center for American Progress has put out a clear and concise description of 'What Is Cap and Trade, and How Can We Implement It Successfully?
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, education (all these topics)

Focus the Nation, save the planet -- now! Eban Goodstein invites you to join in the largest climate teach-in ever	Guest author	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Eban Goodstein. Goodstein is a professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., and director of Focus the Nation. ----- 'If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we will do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment.' -- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change If these words don't get you off your butt ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, education, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

That'll Teach 'Em Colleges around the country take green steps		20 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 20 Dec 2007 Are you thinking what we're thinking? Yep: It's time for a green college roundup! Maine's College of the Atlantic has made good on its pledge to be a carbon-neutral campus, say school officials. "As far as we know, [COA is] the first in the world to make the commitment, and as far as we know, the first to do it," says David Hales, president of the 300-student college, which offers one major ...
Topics: climate, education, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, news, Oregon (all these topics)

From Campus: Making a power shift Students organize summit on climate change	Nathan Wyeth	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
You know how some days you just get so wrapped up with those new Facebook apps that you barely notice when columnists in the nation's newspaper of note are talking shit about you behind your back? Earlier this month, Tom Friedman wrote: America needs a jolt of the idealism, activism and outrage ... of Generation Q [for 'Quiet']. That's what twentysomethings are for -- to light a fire under the country. But they can't email it in, and an online petition or a mou ...
Topics: climate, education, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

What's Up, Doc? U.K. judge rules Inconvenient Truth partisan but still OK to show in schools		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 A judge has ruled on a British citizen's accusation that the United Kingdom's distribution of An Inconvenient Truth to secondary schools amounts to political indoctrination. And the strange, strange verdict is: Yes, the documentary can be shown in schools -- as long as teachers follow guidelines to not promote Al Gore's "partisan political views" to impressiona ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, education, England, litigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Dimmockery British citizen sues government over distribution of climate-change film to schools		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:09 PM on 28 Sep 2007 In July, a judge ruled that the British government's decision to send Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth documentary to 3,500 English secondary schools did not constitute political indoctrination of children. British citizen and fun-name owner Stewart Dimmock disagrees, and is suing his government to quash the dastardly distribution. Dimmock claims the "irredeemable&quo ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, dimwittery, education, litigation, news, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

From Campus: Get hip to social entrepreneurship It's a hot topic on campus these days	Nathan Wyeth	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
As an undergrad at Brown University and a veteran organizer with the Sierra Student Coalition, Nathan Wyeth has his ear to the ground on campus sustainability issues. In this occasional column for Grist, Wyeth will report on what's afoot at the campus grassroots level and how he and his fellow students are making their voices heard. ----- A debate has been swirling on Gristmill for the past few weeks over the role of voluntary actions versus government policy in solvi ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, education (all these topics)

PowerPoint to the planet's rescue Showing off sustainability slide shows from around the world	Elsa Mary	15 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore's PowerPoint presentation (which was actually done in Keynote on a Mac) may be the most famous global-warming slide show, but it's one of probably millions. Scores of save-the-planet slide shows have been shown off in boardrooms and classrooms around the world. Here are some cooked up by people from around the globe. Alas, the cute factor is conspicuously missing. So the next time you're dallying in digital presentations, don't forget the pleading penguins a ...
Topics: climate, education (all these topics)

How we know we're not wrong about climate change A professor of History and Science Studies explains	Andrew Dessler	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
For those interested in why the scientific community is so certain about climate change, take a look at this presentation and this book chapter, both by Naomi Oreskes. She does a great job explaining how science reaches conclusions, and why we can be pretty sure that humans are indeed warming the climate.
Topics: climate, climate science, education, scientific research (all these topics)

How Much CO2 Does a Kegger Emit? College and university presidents sign on to climate pledge		13 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
How Much CO2 Does a Kegger Emit? College and university presidents sign on to climate pledge Aiming to give greenhouse-gas reduction the old college try, 280 institutions have signed on to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. Modeled after a pact signed by mayors across the country, the agreement commits schools to promoting research on global warming, keeping track of emissions, and aiming ...
Topics: climate, education, United States (all these topics)

Not everyone's a Feynmann Public presentations on global warming -- not as easy as you might think	JMG	01 Jun 2007	Gristmill
So I had an opportunity to go see a free, open-to-the-public talk by Dr. Michael Mann, one of the lead authors for the IPCC, the person most associated with the 'hockey stick' graph of temperature, and a faculty member at Penn State University. His topic: 'Global Climate Change: Past and Present.' A review:All in all, a disappointment. It was almost like an advertisement for Edward Tufte's pamphlet about how PowerPoint fails us. Mann, one of the brains behind Realclimat ...
Topics: climate, climate science, education, scientific research (all these topics)

History Belongs to Those Who Dare to Rewrite It Smithsonian allegedly revised exhibit to show climate 'uncertainty'		23 May 2007	Daily Grist
History Belongs to Those Who Dare to Rewrite It Smithsonian allegedly revised exhibit to show climate "uncertainty" In 2003, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History was accused of pandering to the Bush administration when a photography exhibit about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was relocated and downplayed. Now former museum administrator Robert Sullivan is charging that last ...
Topics: climate, education, news, shenanigans (all these topics)

Reverb rocks Campus Consciousness Tour Guster helps school students on climate change	Sarah van Schagen	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I've told you before about the rockin' work of environmental nonprofit Reverb, an organization that partners with musicians like Dave Matthews Band, Avril Lavigne, and Bonnie Raitt to "green" their tours and help educate fans about eco-issues. This year, they're going even bigger by helping Warner Music Group reduce its industry-size carbon footprint, collaborating with Sheryl Crow and Laurie David on a Stop Global Warming College Tour, and seeking out ...
Topics: climate, education, green living, music (all these topics)

Child's Play Can Al Gore's message be tailored for kids?	Sarah van Schagen	16 Mar 2007	Main Dish
The planet's future is up to you, kids ... but no pressure. Photo: Sarah van Schagen Can Al Gore's message be tailored for kids? Lisa Shimizu thinks so. Over the past few months, Shimizu has been developing a version of the Inconvenient Truth slideshow that would be easily understood by and engaging for children. After testing it out on captive audiences ranging from her 8-year-old daughter Aya to a cl ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, education, Seattle (all these topics)

A great resource on global warming Oceanus is for more than just middle-schoolers	Andrew Dessler	12 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has an online magazine, Oceanus. Over the past few years, they've published many stories (at the middle school level and up) on numerous aspects of the ocean/climate system. There's some great material there (e.g., this article on solar effects on climate or this one on the oceanic sink for carbon dioxide). Check it out here.
Topics: climate, climate science, education, oceans (all these topics)

Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth		11 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth First sex, now science? What will they tell the kids about next? The parents of a high-schooler in Federal Way, Wash., have complained to the district's school board about a teacher's plan to screen Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and the board has put a moratorium on the film. "Co ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, education, green living, movies, news, Washington (all these topics)

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