Focus the Nation

To learn more about Focus the Nation and global warming in general I read the about section of the Focus the Nation website. I then went and calculated my carbon footprint at http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/. I learned that I had an average carbon footprint. So I decided to review what I could do to help slow down global warming, I went to this site to learn more http://www.carbonfootprint.com/minimisecfp.html. Some of these things I have always done, such as turning off the water when I am brushing my teeth. Yet, some of the things I have not done, or even thought about, such as changing the type of light bulbs I use. I would really like to make a difference, and I think I will when I get my own apartment or house, but since I live with my parents I can encourage and educate them, but I cannot make them change. I did not know that electricity is one of the biggest producers of carbon emissions. I also did not know that boiling just the amount of water you need would be a big deal in reducing carbon emissions. After reading a post on the Focus the Nation forum I realized that some people thought that global warming is a myth. I have always believed that global warming is real, along with my parents, my school, my friends, so I never thought of global warming as being not real.

In my classroom I could have a recycle box for paper and soda bottles. That way recycling would be part of my classroom environment. We could study global warming in class but figure out what would have happened if the world had started thinking about global warming earlier, and how that would have effected our world today. I would like my students to know how their choices effect the world around them. The changes are relatively simple, and could make a large impact. I could have my students debate about global warming, such is a tax really the way to fund global warming projects or is there a better way to fund them?