Environmental education and workforce development
for urban teens.

 



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.
  • 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.
  • 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. Watch a film on producing biofuels from cactus: 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.
  • Understanding Climate Change . 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.
  • 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.

 

 

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