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Friday, June 16, 2017

Monday June 19th

Luncheon Monday June 19th Sign up

Please bring a cup,plate,and utensils. We want to minimize out impact.


Period 2- Posters, Papers, Infographics

Period 3- Posters, Papers, Infographics

Period 7- Peer edit (posters Tuesday morning)


Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Ecolab Workdays

Ecolab Workday Signup

All students are to work 90 min minimum

Signup here (please don't erase other info when updating the spreadsheet)

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Bag it Post film assignment

1. Identify 3 companies that are looking at how they use plastics.

  1. A company who is at the forefront of reducing their own plastic use and possibly reducing global plastic use.
  2. A company who is following the industry standard for dealing with plastics and plastic waste
  3. A company who is engaged in making mixed competent non-recyclable products.
2. For each of these companies identify a way that the company is engaging with you the end user.

3. Create a list of behaviors you can engage in to reduce your plastic usage.  Create an estimate for the reduction of plastic use over a months span.

4. Identify 1 major environmental disaster associated with the production of plastics. Give a brief description of the event, the impact to the community and the subsequent legislation/ regulation that was created in response.


Thursday, May 11, 2017

Greenwashing

Greenwashing article


Interesting opinion piece. Made more interesting because  it is published on a blog that specifically promotes the purchasing of stuff.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Monday, April 24, 2017

Stabilizing Carbon Emissions

Task- You and your lab group are tasked with researching and deciding what strategies should be taken to stabilize carbon emissions.

Assessment-
1.Create a Wedge game board that identifies the strategies you chose ( name the strategy on the board) and what category they came from (color of wedge)
2. Create a table that identifies the strategy, category, decision making (why did you choose this strategy and sector), and validation for not choosing other strategies from the same sector.


Resources
1. Game board (1 per lab table)
2 Game rules
3.Articles
4. Slides and Presentations
5. Calculations and Data

At the end of the period turn in documents to your class periods basket (1 per group with all members names)

******Period 4*****

Jigsaw and tour through the strategies from the other groups. By the end of the period there needs to be a class consensus for the strategies to reduce our carbon emissions.

The class consensus can be written in the comments section of the blog.  If there is a dissenting opinion it may also be written in the comments section.