this will help. do your part to save the earth !
Posted on 04/14/2008 12:08:37 PM PDT by kingattax
(CNSNews.com) - Attention, class: This is National Environmental Education Week, a time to actively engage K-12th grade students and teachers in "an inspired week of environmental learning" before Earth Day on April 22.
The event is organized by the National Environmental Education Foundation, a group chartered by Congress in 1990 to advance environmental knowledge and action. "Our ultimate goal is to activate environmentally responsible behavior in the general public," the group says on its Web site.
The theme of this year's Environmental Education Week is "carbon footprints." The lessons and activities are "designed to infuse environmental education into everyday learning."
With that goal in mind, the National Environmental Education Foundation is offering an online student carbon calculator to help kids figure out how much carbon dioxide they are emitting in the following categories: travel, what you eat, home, what you use, and what you throw away.
Students answer a series of questions, then the calculator gives the "tips" about different options for setting specific goals for themselves (for example, 'I will ride a bike instead of riding in a car'), the Web site says.
Students also are encouraged to join online discussion forums in which teachers and students share tips on reducing their carbon dioxide emissions/footprint.
"Students can compare their carbon footprints with students in other schools, boys vs. girls and more," the National Environmental Education Foundation said.
The National Environmental Education Foundation describes "EE Week" as the largest organized environmental education event in the United States.
The event is funded by Canon USA (the cameras and office products company). Alexandra Cousteau, the granddaughter of the famous French explorer Jacques Cousteau, is the event's spokesperson.
"We can no longer ignore the human footprint on our planet," Alexandra said in a news release. "If we are to achieve a sustainable society, we must consider our impact on the natural systems that support life on Earth. EE Week is an excellent opportunity for students and educators to focus on shrinking their own carbon footprint and that of their families, schools and communities."
The National Environmental Education Foundation says millions of students and educators are expected to take part in this week's lessons.
this will help. do your part to save the earth !
If my teen walks into the house and leaves a carbon footprint on the carpet I get out my industrial strength chemical cleaners and take it right out.
Unfortunately, on the whole, most of the lil dweebs end up functionally illiterate.
Time to go buy that 2nd SUV.
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This stuff isn’t really funny. We’re going to end up with a generation whose minds are messed so badly they won’t be able to feed or dress themselves.
The ultimate goal of socialism.
Wonder how many of the teachers will be giving up their SUVs, etc?
Just focusing on the three R’s would be a good start.
already there
“a time to actively engage K-12th grade students and teachers in “an inspired week of environmental learning” before Earth Day on April 22. “
I guess that fact the we are well below many nations in math and science education isn’t important to these people.
Fluff and junk science rules the day.
The only carbon foot print I’m leaving will be on the ass of the hippy do-gooder who tries brainwashing my kid with this eco-nonsense.
LOL That’s awesome
What foods give you a lot of gas? I want to do my part for Earth Day.
My daughter’s 4th grade science teacher was filling her head full of nonsense, saying oil production was declining because the earth is running out of oil, which is why the prices were going up. I told her to go back and ask the teacher if oil production was up this year from last year and every previous year, and the teacher said that it was not.
How do you deal with such stubborn ignorance?
help barbie boxer save the polar bears :)
I would rather my daughter focus on her times tables and reading. If she learns those well she might actually be prepared to someday be a scientist.
Do as I say, not as I do.
I, for one, do not plan to give up driving my car.
Do they not realize, that to reduce the carbon footprint, STARVES trees, grass, and plants of every kind, of a very essential nutrient, carbon dioxide?
Life on earth CANNOT continue to exist in the absence of carbon dioxide (which constitutes about 0.04% of the atmosphere). If this little trickle of carbon dioxide is cut off, plants wither and die, just as surely as if water were cut off.
AS far as any “greenhouse” gas is concerned, water vapor has about a thousand times as much effect in trapping and transferring heat, as carbon dioxide.
Simply because there is just so much more of it.
Methane lasts about PFFT! in an open atmosphere, as it is oxidized very quickly into carbon dioxide and water vapor in the presence of the 20% or so of oxygen in the atmosphere, with the presence of no more energy than that provided by sunlight. Ozone and nitrogen oxides are also very destructive of the tiny amounts of methane that escape from natural processes every day.
Nitrogen oxides form during lightning strikes, or from the decomposition of proteinaceous material, as ammonium and amide ions are oxidized.
"hey, buddy. i am trying to save the planet here !"
Better.
Hey! I’ve got a really neat idea for the teachers on Earth Day. How about teaching the kids how to construct a complete sentence!
Earth’s Co2 levels are lower than they have ever been at any point in Earth’s history. Yet they want us to lower them more. They’re gonna destroy the earth!
Howzabout focusing on how to read 'A Book'?
Or perhaps 'Basic Math Skills'?
Speaking of schools and liberal agendas, it’s a little off topic, but my daughter is a freshman in college and she just told me she got 5 points in her Sociology class because she was able to show her professor her voter ID card. The professor probably assumes she’s voting for Hillery or Obama. She asked the class if they were going to watch the last debate between Obama and Hillery and most of the kids sort of snickered because they’re voting for McCain. That sort of thing gives me hope for the future.
No doubt in my mind they’ll need an instructional manual for putting on a button-down shirt; unfortunately they won’t be able to read the manual.
Baby fat, bad complexion, peer pressure and now....this?
I have a half dozen or so jumbo race tires that Ive been meaning to burn. I guess I will save it for Earth Day and offset about 200 hippies holding in their farts all day.
A nasty fist-to-fist parent-teacher conference?
call in an air strike
That is the whole agenda of the elite: to make us slaves. You can’t make slaves of thinking, free, people. But, if you confuse them enough, make them feel guilty for just being alive, confuse their sexuality (such that they lose a vital sense of self), turn them on to daily fads,... Then you can rule them with ease. As another poster said, we’re already there. I see too many young people who can’t begin to even boil water, who live for “fashion”, and are seriously confused about their sexuality (and hence, who they are as a person).
The useful idiots (teacher, whiners , etc) who promote this stuff never learned 5th grade science. They have destroyed sense of self, therefore they will believe anything. The “leaders” know better, but they’re in it for the money and control. Nothing more.
If the principal is a decent person, start there. If not, move on to the school board. If not, then run for the school board and go door-to-door. And support good principals. I’ve known REALLY good men who were run out a career because the “community” didn’t support them when the Leftist Enemies started to take them down.
sigh.
Another day, another reason.
Carbon Footprint...nothing but a sham to make liberals feel good.
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