More Information to get educated on coal issues

For more information:
National Public Radio
To hear some great audio programs that address both sides of each issue (sometimes in two programs instead of in one), log onto the Science Friday Archives and teaching tools and listen from your home computer or your Ipod w/ Podcasting.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/kids/sfkc-enviro.html

Some Great Program titles that apply to the issue include:
· History of Climate Change
· Coal Comforts
· Out of Gas
· Melting Glaciers
· Climate Change and Biodiversity
· It's Getting Hot in Here! A Discussion on Global Warming
· Wind Power
· Energy Alternatives
· Effects of Global Warming on Plants and Animals Worldwide

Two Programs on March 23 offer insight, entitled, "The Government and Climate Change" and "Carbon Trading or Carbon Taxes?"
http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=global+warming+Science+Friday&sort=DREDATE%3Anumberdecreasing&aggId=0&prgId=0&topicId=0&how_long_ago=0
State Websites
Many states have developed working websites on energy change- I have pointed out Ohio and California here: http://www.energy.ca.gov/
http://www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3

Non-profit for families
Join non-profit organizations that teach families, especially kids, how to curb an energy hog lifestyle. A slide show aimed toward children is featured: www.energyhog.org

Historical Science Book- Snapshot of our losses and our methods over 600 years
One of the best books of my 2005 reading was from Alice Outwater's Water: A Natural Resource. If you have ever wondered why people complain about environmental issues when life seems to go on without a hitch, read this fabulous history of the treatment of our water systems starting in the 1400s to the present. You will never view our rivers, our rodents or our friendly Western beavers the same again. One chapter is published to the internet and is found at the link below. More reading is required to link the beaver with the recharging of underground aquifers, but this is an excellent chapter and will lure you into further reading. http://www.shawsheen.org/Beavers/Natural_History_of_Beavers/natural_history_of_beavers.html