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Some Links and info to get you started!
The Global Pollution Epidemic; resources available on the Burnaby website!!
The battle for Biodiversity -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAEE3HN1RM0
We spend $1 conserving biodiversity for every $13 we spend on things that harm it.
Group-members should spend some time this week researching the economic aspects of your topic; how is money spent SUPPORTING the activities that cause the harm you've researched?
Include some data in your written report and final presentation!
Go to http://www.south.burnabyschools.ca
Click on LIBRARY
Put mouse over SUMMER SESSION tab at top
Click on Moscrop Global Pollution Epidemic
Everyone must develop their skills for gathering evidence and finding "good" sources!
Plastics
History, chemistry, and production of plastics: -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggh0Ptk3VGE
How to deal with this massive problem?
Holding back the plastic tide --www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YQWthFz8g
https://www.newsweek.com/ocean-plastic-pollution-being-eaten-even-deepest-sea-creatures-712725
Kurzgezagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ&t=196s
Greenhouse Gases
A year in the life of CO2. (NASA supercomputer simulation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04
Key search terms: cars, cows, pipelines, fracking, coal, greenhoues gas sources; run-away greenhouse effect!
Renewable energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kUE0BZtTRc
Deforestation and Renewable energy -- protecting the environment!
Important Vocabulary
Video Information (updated July 23):
Time-lapse of the deforestation of the Amazon: -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllU9NEcJyg
Re-foresting Iceland -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnRNdbqXu1I
Drones planting trees -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dAq7e4EyJs
First-nations council on ecology and different approaches to interacting with nature:
http://www.afn.ca/honoring-earth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic-J6hcSKa8
Agriculture -- The hidden dangers of cows, nutrient pollution, and mono-culture. Many possible sub-topics exist here!
Methane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md2M2SKExmI
Eutrophication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxaWXWd2pw4
Alternative forms of food production?...
Urban Farming -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaEKJ5Vv3Zg
Antibiotics
Kurzgezagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbcwi7SfZE
Honey as an antibiotic! -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609166/
The battle for Biodiversity -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAEE3HN1RM0
We spend $1 conserving biodiversity for every $13 we spend on things that harm it.
Group-members should spend some time this week researching the economic aspects of your topic; how is money spent SUPPORTING the activities that cause the harm you've researched?
Include some data in your written report and final presentation!
Go to http://www.south.burnabyschools.ca
Click on LIBRARY
Put mouse over SUMMER SESSION tab at top
Click on Moscrop Global Pollution Epidemic
Everyone must develop their skills for gathering evidence and finding "good" sources!
Plastics
History, chemistry, and production of plastics: -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggh0Ptk3VGE
How to deal with this massive problem?
Holding back the plastic tide --www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YQWthFz8g
https://www.newsweek.com/ocean-plastic-pollution-being-eaten-even-deepest-sea-creatures-712725
Kurzgezagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ&t=196s
Greenhouse Gases
A year in the life of CO2. (NASA supercomputer simulation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04
Key search terms: cars, cows, pipelines, fracking, coal, greenhoues gas sources; run-away greenhouse effect!
Renewable energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kUE0BZtTRc
Deforestation and Renewable energy -- protecting the environment!
Important Vocabulary
Video Information (updated July 23):
Time-lapse of the deforestation of the Amazon: -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllU9NEcJyg
Re-foresting Iceland -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnRNdbqXu1I
Drones planting trees -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dAq7e4EyJs
First-nations council on ecology and different approaches to interacting with nature:
http://www.afn.ca/honoring-earth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic-J6hcSKa8
Agriculture -- The hidden dangers of cows, nutrient pollution, and mono-culture. Many possible sub-topics exist here!
Methane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md2M2SKExmI
Eutrophication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxaWXWd2pw4
Alternative forms of food production?...
Urban Farming -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaEKJ5Vv3Zg
Antibiotics
Kurzgezagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbcwi7SfZE
Honey as an antibiotic! -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609166/