Discussions

=This page is to collect ideas and articles brought up during discussions for further readings.=

Sunday
Debate:

Denise: Google "box" fuel cells "Bloom Box Fuel Cell" Report: Bloom Energy to power Apple’s iCloud cell farm, the nation’s biggest non-utility fuel cell installation Bloom Energy Begins Fuel Cell Production in Delaware

Rate of global warming http://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173739884/since-end-of-last-ice-age-rates-of-global-warming-amazing-and-atypical

**Monday**
Article from the NYTimes [|Bangladesh Pollution] Slideshow of Bangladesh Pollution [|NY Times Slideshow]

From Ida Beth: Cadwalader Park Cadwalader Park: Wikipedia Cadwalader Park: Video from Trenton History

From Denise: TED talk on Green Wall efforts in schools [|Green Wall Video]

From Jamie: Sir Ken Robinson TED talk: Do Schools Kill Creativity? (transcript here)

Emerson's speech praising John Brown 1859

Jane Goodall's TED talk that discusses thinking 7 generations ahead

From Kathy: GreenFaith.org =Tuesday= From Matt: D.H. Lawrence //Women in Love// //(quoted page 120-21)//

From John: Ghost Dance - from Oklahoma Historical Society PBS: An Account of the Ghost Dance of the Lakota from 1890

From Jamie: //The Lorax// (wikipedia) Quotes from //The Lorax//

1967 Newark Riots
From Rutgers University Article from NY Times (1967) Video clips: Riots in Newark New Jersey 1967 Newark Riots 1967 footage Five Days in July 2-screen video installation Newark Riots "At the Stadium" (footage largely of National Guard at Newark Schools Stadium on Bloomfield Avenue)

From Denise: //Seedfolks// by Paul Fleischman (Grade 5 and up, told in 13 different multicultural voices)

Supreme Court Rules Against Christie on COAH NJ.com Editorial National Law Review article on ruling North Jersey editorial that includes comments about the basis of the ruling

From Denise: The High Line Park [|NYC High Line Park]

4 Phils and Brain Cancer: Connection or Coincidence?

From Christine: Factors that lead to cancer "Cancer Prevention Might Be Easier Than You Think"

=Wednesday= Article on Margaret Sanger, Birth Control, and "The Negro Project"

From Jen: Roundup from India: Children Die After Eating School Lunch Indian man single-handedly plants a 1,360-acre forest What India's Decision to Ban Captive Dolphins Means Lacey Wells Court Summary

Seen in //Rescuing the River: The Raritan:// Three Days on Big City Waters (film from 1974 by Rutgers U Professor Michael Aaron Rockland) (streams online!) Snowshoeing Through Sewers by Michael Aaron Rockland (book on seeing the wilderness in urban landscapes--includes stories of canoeing the Delaware-Raritan Canal)

Watershed brochure (pdf link) from NJ (includes watershed maps of NJ) [|Watershed brochure]

Plastic Island in Pacific [|Article about plastic island] [|5 Gyres Institute]

=Field Trip w Highlands representatives= From Julia: Blue Death by Robert Morris Save H2O NJ -- Coalition between Highlands and Pinelands

=Thursday= Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

Book on Watershed Lessons (available used for under $4) Watershed: A Successful Voyage Into Integrative Learning

Article on Corporate Environmental Action (pdf) "Leaders and Laggards: The Influence of Competing Logics on Corporate Environmental Action" Authors: Irene M. Herremans, M. Sandy Herschovis and Stephanie Bertels Source: //Journal of Business Ethics//, Vol. 89, No. 3 (Oct., 2009), pp. 449-472

Seafood Watch app from Monterey Bay Aquarium

From Jen: Promised Land (film) Dir. Gus Van Sant. starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook, Frances McDormand

Gasland (film) Gasland (official site)

From John: What Chemicals Are Used in Fracking?

FEMA uses outdated maps to create new floodzones

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (YA dystopian fiction)

From Jamie: Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Dark Life by Kat Falls (ocean floor is new frontier) Dark Life by Kat Falls

The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch (plague has wiped out humanity; return to nature) The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch

Revolution (Network TV show. Electricty has been turned off) NBC: Revolution

From Eva: EPA water information http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/drinkingwater/water_trivia_facts.cfm

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection NJDEP Recycling Poetry Contest (for grades 4, 5, and 6 in 2013)

NJDEP SEEDs Classroom Materials (many links for a variety of resources on this page) SEEDS Classroom Materials

The Story of Stuff Powerpoint Presentation from the NJDEP -aimed at 4th-8th graders -is a slideshow focusing on recycling (not the movie below) PowerPoint on Recycling (The Story of Stuff)

The Story of Stuff Project (contains a 20 minute movie available to watch online or download) focus on consumerism The Story of Stuff website YouTube version of the movie = = =**FRIDAY**=