Renewable+Energy

Solar Roads? See video:[]

From: Kathy H. Carmel, IN I found a neat assignment here: (begining page 11) []. Students broke into groups- each group had a renewable energy source, and they each took a role: environmentalist, economist, sociologist, scientist. Each wrote a short paper about the energy source from their point of view and they presented one PowerPoint to the class. As students presented, they had to point out advantages and disadvantages of the energy source for the rest of the class to write down on a chart. It was a great assignment and many became passionate about "their" energy source.

From James Rodewald A VERY brief article here from the NY Times regarding the current status of geothermal electricity in Japan as well as a brief discussionof the economic and environmental issues with its development. []