SUMMARY

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This presentation was featured at the Will Steger Foundation's 2007 Summer Institute. This PowerPoint was presented by J Drake Hamilton, Science Policy Director at Fresh Energy. It focuses on increasing energy requirements and the need for cleaner energy sources. It offers strategies to reducing emissions including suggestions for the transportation and power industries as well as strategies for carbon sequestration.

GOALS

The goals of the 2007 Summer Institute were:

1. to provide background knowledge on global warming science and implications with a focus on the polar regions
2. to provide an overview of the renewable energy landscape
3. to provide tools and resources for implementing cross-disciplinary climate change curriculum in the classroom
4. to create an opportunity for participants to design an action plan related to climate change solutions.

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING MATERIALS

>>Download PowerPoint: Global Warming: Emissions and Solutions

TEACHING NOTES / CONTEXT FOR USE

This presentation would be most useful in a lecture discussing possible solutions for climate change mitigation.

ASSESSMENT

Assessment is at the discretion of the educator.

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