Energy, Climate, Environment

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.07.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Key Ideas and Essential Understandings
  5. Objectives and Strategies
  6. Conclusion
  7. Activity #1
  8. Activity #5
  9. Activity #7 Kessinger's Apprentices
  10. Appendix 1
  11. Endnotes

Unconventional Transportation

Laura Kessinger

Published September 2009

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Endnotes

1IPCC. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. http://www.ipcc.ch.ipcreports/ar4-syr.htm, Washington, DC: IPCC, 2007.

2Boundy, Robert G, Stacey C. Davis, and Susan W. Diegel. Transportation Energy Data Book. Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Labratory, 2009.

3Environmental Defense Fund. Climate Global Warming by the Numbers: Chilling Statistics to Think About. 2009. http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentID=4981 (accessed June 29, 2009)

4Environmnetal Protection Agency. Climare Change Health and Environmental Effects: US Regions. June 14, 2009. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange//effects/usregions.html (accessed June 20, 2009).

5Energy Information Administration. Energy Kids Page: Scientific Forms of Energy. 2008. http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/science/formsofenergy.html (accessed June 29, 2009).

6Enders, John. "McClathy News." McClathchy Truth to Power. May 08, 2009. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/environment/v-print/story/67807.html (accessed July 13, 2009).

7Roberts, Anwen. "Spiegel Online International." Islanders Without an Island. September 14, 2007. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,5058119,00.html (accessed July 14, 2009).

8National Climatic Data Center. NCDC: Climate of 2008. January 23, 2009. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/tornadoes08.html (accessed July 13, 2009).

9US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Accoication. NOAA: Climate Change. http://www.noaa.gov/climate (accessed July 27, 2009).

10Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2004.

11Wargo, John. Green Intelligence: Creating Environments that Protect Human Health. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.

12Sterinzor, Rena I. Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt our Kids. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008.

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