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PowerPoint: Climate Change Impacts of Waste - Will Steger Foundation (Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy)

Julia Baker
Initial Publication Date: April 29, 2016

Summary

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This presentation was featured at the Will Steger Foundation's 2007 Summer Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota. This PowerPoint was presented by Alex Danovitch with Eureka Recycling. It explains how environmentally destructive production is and how difficult it is to harvest energy from waste. It concludes by showing how recycling is the best solution for reducing the environmental impacts of production.

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Learning Goals

The goals of the 2007 Summer Institute were:

  1. to provide background knowledge on global warming science and implications with a focus on the polar regions
  2. to provide an overview of the renewable energy landscape
  3. to provide tools and resources for implementing cross-disciplinary climate change curriculum in the classroom
  4. to createan opportunity for participants to design an action plan related to climate change solutions .

Context for Use

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Description and Teaching Materials

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Teaching Notes and Tips

This PowerPoint would fit well in a lecture about the environmental costs of production and the difficulties of using waste to generate energy.

Assessment

Assessment is at the discretion of the educator.

References and Resources

Baker, J. (2012). PowerPoint: Climate Change Impacts of Waste - Will Steger Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.camelclimatechange.org/view/presentation/51cbf2b47896bb431f6aa715