Students speak up on Global Warming …
November 29th, 2006 Tags: Environment
Google have published a top 50 ideas list on strategies for combating global warming. The interesting thing is that these ideas were collated by young students. The full list can be found here on the Google site. Following are the top 10…
- Include global warming/climate change in school curricula (as part of National Science Standards), so when the students are in charge they can make educated decisions.
- Increase availability of low-interest Energy Efficient Mortgages to support homeowners who increase the energy efficiency of their homes.
- Put light sensors in all office and school buildings so all lights go off when the rooms are empty.
- Require that all products contributing to global warming be marked with a specific color (e.g., chemical pesticides could be marked with a red sticker for being extremely dangerous to the environment).
- Use less paper; use the back of the paper to print on or write on; use recyled paper.
- Plant more trees to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- Teach recycling techniques in classes and school-wide programs.
- Make recycling mandatory in all public facilities, such as schools, parks and beaches.
- Do public service announcements on TV featuring celebrities promoting carpooling, walking, riding bikes, using public transportation, conserving electricity and recycling.
- Give grants and tax credits to companies that invest in alternative, sustainable, emission-free fuel technologies while ending such subsidies for fosssil fuel production.
Good to know that our future population are thinking about these things. The problem is, it’s still up to us oldies to act on it now.