Cutting Schools' Energy Waste and Bills

APES Current Event: Schools' Energy
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/cutting-schools-energy-waste-and-bills/?scp=6&sq=environment&st=cse


Cutting Schools' Energy Waste and Bills
By: Andrew C. Revkin

Over the next 2 years, 500 public schools will be getting an environmental makeover thanks to the Clinton Global Initiative. The schools will be working on installing super-efficient windows, digital environmental sensors, and smart thermostats. Not only will this cut energy waste and costs for the schools, but this will also teach the students about how to be environmentally friendly, and the hope is that they take this new found knowledge home with them and share it with their families.

This article was published in the New York Times on September 23, 2010.

The bias is pro environmentalist. The author believes that this will definitely be a successful plan when implemented, which he demonstrates in the last sentence of the article. He has given his own name to environmentally-conscious kids, which shows that he is definitely a pro environmentalist.



V. Energy Resources and Consumption
B. Energy Consumption
1. History
(Industrial Revolution; exponential growth; energy crisis)
2. Present global energy use
3. Future energy needs

VI. Pollution
C. Economic Impacts (cost-benefit analysis; externalities; marginal costs; sustainability)