High School Level Books
on Renewable Energy:
“The Teen Guide to Global Action: How to Connect
with Others (Near & Far) to Create Social Change”
by Barbara A. Lewis, Free Spirit Publishing, 2008.
“Saving Energy Starts at Home”
by Peter Miller, photographs by Tyrone Turner,
National Geographic, March 2009, page 60.
“Field Notes from a Catastrophe”
by Elizabeth Kolbert, Bloomsbury, 2006.
“Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy”
by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks, Island Press, 2008.
“An Inconvenient Truth”
by Al Gore, Rodale, 2006.
“Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”
by Al Gore, Rodale, 2009.
“Storms of my Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming
Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”
by James Hansen, Bloomsbury, 2009.
“Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse”
by David W. Orr, Oxford University Press, 2009.
High School Level Online Links
on Renewable Energy:
From Denmark, an illustrated introduction to wind turbines:
http://www.talentfactory.dk/en/kids/index.htm
The American Wind Energy Association:
http://www.awea.org/
The European Wind Energy Association:
http://www.ewea.org/
Projects with wind turbines:
http://www.kidwind.org/lessons/students.html
Information on clean energy for all school levels:
http://www.need.org/EnergyInfobooks.php
Photographs of wind turbines:
http://www.ewea.org/index.php?id=36
Wind map of America:
http://www.awea.org/newsroom/pdf/Top_20_States_with_Wind_Energy_Potential.pdf
U.S. Department of Energy, wind energy teaching materials:
http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/schools_teaching_materials.asp
Wind energy teaching materials:
http://www.pdfee.com/wind-energy-curricula-tutorials-and-teaching-materials.html
K-12 Energy Education Program:
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/wcee/keep/NR735/index.htm
International climate news from Sweden:
www.airclim.org
Website of Vestas wind turbines, in Denmark;
an excellent educational site:
www.vestas.com
An excellent online newsletter about clean energy:
www.rechargenews.com
Information on the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, given to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/index.html |
