This article is about how grocery stores can really be "green". Some stores "have not properly adopted organic principles and subverted the movement as it has gone mainstream."
This article is about how the Persian Gulf is being polluted due to heavy transportation of oil rigs. "Due to the war and high rate of water evaporation, extended drilling and oil extraction, pollution of the water has increased alarmingly."
This article is about water pollution in China and how shortages of good water could significantly affect their society. An interesting fact is that "China supports 21% of the worlds population with just 7% of its water supplies.
This article is about the future possibility of having a paperless society due to technology. This could be one major factor to eliminating the destruction of rainforest.
This website answers the question "Why Go Green" that many people might have. It has a few basic statistics that prove why it is so essential. If we don't change our lifestyles we might be destroying the ultimate home for future generations.
This websites pupose is to inform users that you can actually recycle many electronic devices like cell phones, computers, and TV. You should actually recycle them because a lot of these devices contain toxic materials like lead, cadmium, and mercury which could lead to even larger environmental hazards.
This site has many interesting facts about how we are destroying our Earth. I think some of this information would be very useful during the "shock and awe" introduction.
According to the wind energy works for America a new law was proposed that would make generating new wind energy a crime and eventually phase out currently opperating wind energy plants.
This discusses why solar energy film will be very useful in the comming years. This film is more efficent. Also new testing are being done to put solar film on roofs.
This webpage has valuable information about plastic which is one of the most commonly used items today. Using plastic can not only hurt our environment but new medical research also suggest that plastic if used inappropriatley can be harmful to humans.
Helping to protect endangered species is another problem that fits in with our assigned topic. This page offers useful advice to how to help species that are suffering. I think this would be a great project for teachers to assign students in elementary classrooms specifically.