Resources for Activity 39: Energy Sleuths

Student Pages
Energy Primer

Urban and Community Forestry Website Connections
www.plt.org/cms/urbanforestry

Additional Resources
Energy Efficient Home Articles Learn how to make your home more energy efficient with this very useful site. There are hundreds of articles listed here with information on lowering energy usage, healthy living, green building, and more.

Earth Conservation Plan (ECP) Carbon and Lifestyle Calculator
Participants can take a three minute test to determine your contribution to global climate change. Upon completion of the test, participants can then make pledges to reduce their impact and score. With each change and commitment into their everyday lives, scores are recalculated. The ECP calculator is the first carbon calculator to allow its users to save and track each calculation and pledge, so participants can refer to the data at any time – while tracking their personal improvements over time.

Photographs related to oil. At the website, click on “Statement/CV” for the artist’s statement about his artwork, and under “Works,” click on “oil” for relevant photographs.

EPA tools let computer users "see" air quality information on a virtual globe:
Go to the Air Emissions Sources Web site: www.epa.gov/air/emissions
View information in Google Earth format about which facilities emit any of six common pollutants: http://www.epa.gov/air/emissions/where.htm 
See AQI forecasts and current conditions: www.airnow.gov
View air quality information in Google Earth format: http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=google_earth.main
EPA is also using the Google Earth platform to display Acid Rain Program data: http://epa.gov/airmarkets/progress/interactivemapping.html 

Earth & Sky Radio Correlations
This activity can be supplemented with related Earth & Sky radio shows that you can download for use in your classroom. Learn about the PLT and Earth & Sky Initiative.

Related Earth & Sky Shows:
- Joe Powell: 'Renewable energy needs more than just one silver bullet'  (2009) 
- Mark Mehos Explains Concentrating Solar Power Technology  (2009) 
- Bruce Rittman Uses Bacteria to Make Energy from Waste (2008) 
- Christopher Flavin says Wind Power Surging in Popularity Worldwide (2009)  
- Neil Sampson on How Carbon Offsets Could be Boon to Private Forest Owners (2008) 
- Janaki Alavalapati Says the Forest Biofuel Market is Evolving (2008)
- Janaki Alavalapati: 'Harvest trees to create energy benefit forests'  (2009) 
- Janaki Alavalapati on Forests’ Renewable Energy Potential (2008)