Quite in contrast to actions by the National Science Teachers Association here in the U.S. (see the recent IGHIH post), a positive, worldwide educational program around global warming recently concluded. Google recently partnered with Global SchoolNet to invite teachers and students to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets collaborative software in a project to brainstorm strategies for combating global warming. Children of all ages from more than 80 schools around the world participated, and on November 27th they took out a full-page ad in USA Today to put their ideas in the spotlight. Without further ado, here are some of their top 50 ideas:
1) Include global warming/climate change in school curricula (as part of National Science Standards), so when the students are in charge they can make educated decisions.
10) Give grants and tax credits to companies that invest in alternative, sustainable, emission-free fuel technologies while ending such subsidies for fosssil fuel production.
32) The media should tell us about what is really going on with global warming. We don’t think that we have all the information we need.
Go here for all 50 ideas and more information on the project.
