ECOS Session 3
Air Quality, Energy and Climate Change
Indoor Air Quality and Chemicals
  • Detox your Domicile – watch the video and download the booklet. 
  • Make your own green cleaners.
  • Download a healthy home audit, or try it on-line through the interactive home illustration. Click here.
  • Listen to this radio broadcast on indoor air pollution Click here.
  • Watch a video on the impact of synthetic chemical endocrine disruptors on males. Click here.
Outdoor Air Quality and Transportation
  • Find out how outdoor air quality is monitored in Kansas City. Click here.
  • Try Smog City, an interactive air pollution simulator.  Click here.
  • Cleaning the air at the expense of water. Click here.
  • Calculate your air quality emissions using airhead.  Click here.
  • Planning a trip? Calculate the Trip Footprint (CO2 emissions) Click here.
  • Explore Car of the Future with Click and Clack.  Click here.
  • Read about I Go Car sharing in Chicago. Click here.
  • Check out interesting applications for pedal power. Click here. and pod cars. Click here.
  • Watch this video about how light rail could change land use and life in Kansas City. Click here.
  • Learn how our urban forest helps clean the air.  Click here.
Energy
  • Home Energy Analyzer from KCP&L. Click here.
  • Missouri Gas Energy’s Home Energy Calculator.  Click here.
  • Be Energy Efficient (BEE campaign). Click here.
  • US Dept. of Energy Energy Savers website. Click here.
  • Try out Plan It Green, and build eco homes in the virtual town of Greenville. Click here.
  • Play Energyville. Click here.
  • Watch a children's cartoon about coal and mountaintop removal. Click here.
  • Explore an interactive video on how oil was formed, and how it is refined. Click here.
  • Energy's hidden costs. Click here.
  • Read an overview of biofuels. Click here.
Climate Change
  • Play the carbon cycle game. Click here.
  • EPA climate change information for students. Click here.
  • Explore unit 12, Earth’s Changing Climate, including a video. Click here.
  • View an interactive map of global warming effects. Click here.
  • America's Climate Choices, science-based policy advice. Click here.
  • Explore unit 13, Looking Forward:  Our Global Experiment, including a video. Click here.
  • Wake up, Freak out film. Click here.
  • The Warming of the Earth – A beginner’s guide. Click here.
  • Watch "Feeling the Heat" to learn the impacts of climate change on animals. Click here.
  • Learn about the impact of climate change on the world's water. Click here.
  • Watch or listen to the NPR series, It’s All About Carbon. Click here.
  • Watch a short animated video on carbon capture, sequestration and reuse. Click here.
  • Last ditch efforts to cool the planet. Click here.
  • Learn about the impacts of soot (black carbon) on health and the climate. Click here.
  • Read a report on the inequalities of climate change entitled The Climate Gap. Click here.
  • Read the interactive book entitled Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming. Click here.
  • Read a report on the climate changes projected for the state of Missouri. Click here.

 

 











Here's another way to support Green Works:
Raise money for Green Works in Kansas City just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com.
For more info on GoodSearch

Copyright 2010 Green Works In Kansas City. Green Works in Kansas City is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization.
4334 McGee, Kansas City, MO 64111 816.304.8400