http://www.peakstudents.org
www.nrel.gov/learning/

www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/cleanenergy

www.crest.org

www.sustainableenergy.org/resources/facts_stats.htm

www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter17.html

www.energy.ca.gov/renewables/

www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/renewable.html

www.rredc.nrel.gov/kidzlinks.html

Horton Activity Book (You Can Be an ENERGY STAR) (1.23 MB) (Download PDF)

• Type: Activity Book
• Pages/Size: 6 pages, 81/2*11
• Language: English
• Date of Publication: December 2007
• Primary Audience: 3rd - 7th graders

Download an Earth Day Poster

The Energy Information Association’s Kids Energy Page is a great place for kids to learn.

Famous People Moment….
Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was born in 1642 in England. His father had died two months before his birth. When Isaac was three his mother remarried, and Isaac remained with his grandmother. He was not interested in the family farm, so he was sent to Cambridge University to study. Isaac was born just a short time after the death of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists of all time. Galileo had proved that the planets revolve around the sun, not the earth as people thought at the time. Isaac Newton was very interested in the discoveries of Galileo and others. Isaac thought the universe worked like a machine and that a few simple laws governed it. Like Galileo, he realized that mathematics was the way to explain and prove those laws. Isaac Newton was one of the world’s great scientists because he took his ideas, and the ideas of earlier scientists, and combined them into a unified picture of how the universe works. To learn more about famous people go to the     Energy Information Association’s Energy Kids Page at     http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/

Obama Administration Launches New Energy Efficiency Efforts, Funding
June 29, 2009 — President Obama and DOE Secretary Chu announced aggressive actions to promote energy efficiency and save American consumers billions of dollars. View a video of President Obama's remarks on energy efficiency or read the news story. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog.improving-energy-efficiency/

The Building Technologies Program

The Building Technologies Program (BTP) funds research and technology development to reduce commercial and residential building energy use. The program is working to achieve the goal of net-zero energy buildings, which produce as much energy as they consume. BTP works with national laboratories and industry partners to achieve this goal. Learn more about the program, including key contacts, goals, and financial opportunities. Learn more at http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/

About the Alliance

Founded in 1985 in New Orleans, the Alliance conducts community education campaigns on energy issues, helps citizens and businesses become more energy efficient, and promotes sustainable energy policy solutions.

Global Warming

Every generation faces its historical challenge and is defined by how it responds. For all of humanity alive today that challenge is the crisis we call "Global Warming."  Thousands of studies have made it clear that Global Warming is not only real, but ultimately is the result of human activity through greenhouse gas emissions which come from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.  Most of the greenhouse gas pollution is produced by generating electricity or by vehicles.

Renewable Energy

Using renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and biofuels provides many benefits:

Provides power without burning fuels that produce extra greenhouse gases which cause Global Warming

Stimulates the economy through new industries focused on renewable and efficient energy technologies

Reduces our nation’s dependence on foreign sources of energy, keeping energy dollars at home

Stabilizes energy prices by diversifying energy sources (In 2005 ACEEE found that a modest 2-4% reduction in natural gas use could reduce natural gas prices 20% or more.)

Reduces the negative health, safety, and environmental impacts of using fossil fuels and nuclear energy, such as the pollution causing global warming, acid rain, increased incidence of asthma, cancer, mercury poisoning in children and radioactive waste.

read more at http://www.all4energy.org/

www.fresh-energy.org
Today's Fresh Energy

Fresh Energy works to enhance our economy, protect human health and communities, restore our environment, and establish energy independence. In our sustained and coordinated effort to promote a modern, innovative energy system for the 21st century, we provide research, advocacy and innovative policy models while engaging citizens to take action on the energy issues that affect us all.

Fresh Energy's efforts focus on clean energy, transportation connections, global warming solutions, and energy justice. With expertise, strong alliances and an impressive track record in each of these important areas, we're able to maintain a long-range view while also nimbly responding to sudden threats and unexpected

 

 opportunities.

Issues 

Fresh Energy's efforts focus on clean energy, transportation connections, global warming solutions, and energy justice. With expertise, strong alliances, and an impressive track record in each of these important areas, we're able to maintain a long-range view while also nimbly responding to sudden threats and unexpected opportunities.

Clean Energy

Here in the Midwest, we're uniquely situated to take advantage of clean, renewable energy sources like wind, sun, and plant matter. More >>
http://fresh-energy.org/index.php/issues/44

Transportation Connections

Fresh Energy delivers innovative transportation policies that will get us where we need to go without contributing to global warming or fueling our oil addiction. More >>http://fresh-energy.org/index.php/issues/45

Global Warming Solutions

The solutions to global warming - innovative technologies and tough laws and regulations that require firm deadlines for pollution reductions. More >>http://fresh-energy.org/index.php/issues/global-warming-solution

Energy Justice

Fresh Energy advocates for policies to build low income individuals' ability to negotiate changing energy prices, the costs of energy-efficient technologies and innovations, and the effects of global warming.

More >>http://fresh-energy.org/index.php/issues/energy-justice

Check out Flicker to see all of the Energy Dream Theme panels submitted.

The Dream Rocket team will be featuring non-profit organizations from around the world on the "Dream Theme" pages. Our hope is to help inspire participants everywhere to create panels with "Dream Themes" such as poverty, energy, space, health, peace, science/technology, conservation, and community. If your non-profit oganization falls within one of our "Dream Theme" categories listed and you would like to be represented on The Dream Rocket website,  please email
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein

http://www.wateraid.org/

WaterAid and its partners use practical solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people. We also seek to influence policy at national and international levels.

The Need

Water

Clean water is essential for life, but one in eight of the world's population does not have access to it. This, and lack of safe sanitation, result in over two million people dying from water-related diseases every year. The lack of clean water close to people's homes also affects people's time, livelihoods and quality of life.
 

Sanitation

Sanitation can be defined as access to safe, clean and effective human urine and faeces disposal facilities. Worldwide, 2.5 billion people live without this essential service and the resulting diarrhoeal diseases kill almost 5,000 children a day.

Hygiene education

To gain the full benefits of safe water and sanitation communities also need to know about the links between diseases and unsafe hygiene practices. Hygiene education focuses on issues such as personal hygiene - the simple act of washing hands with soap and water can reduce diarrhoeal diseases by a third.

Disease

Poor sanitation and bad hygiene can result in the contamination of water sources with millions of disease causing micro-organisms. These micro-organisms work in different ways to incapacitate infected individuals.

Poverty

The most obvious benefit of access to safe water and sanitation is a reduction in disease. But the economic position of poor families is often dramatically improved when they gain access to these basic services.

Problems for women

In developing countries poor water and sanitation affects the lives of women and children the most. It impacts on women's time, health, education and family relations.

Problems for children

Without safe water and sanitation, life for children in developing countries can be very hard. They are often at risk from disease and are unable to attend school.

Problems for the elderly

In many of the African countries where WaterAid works life expectancy is frighteningly low. Those who do live into old age face increasing problems as collecting heavy loads of water puts further strains on their health.

 

Problems for the disabled

The struggle to gain access to clean, safe water and basic sanitation facilities is even greater for those contending with physical disability. Collecting water is so much harder, and often impossible, for those in wheelchairs, the blind or simply frail and infirm as a result of illness or old age.

Read more at.... http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what_we_do/the_need/default.asp

Country information sheets

These are ideal teaching and research materials for both the classroom and the home. Download yours today to find out the facts about some of the poorest countries in the world. See Link...

http://www.wateraid.org/uk/learn_zone/other_resources/default.asp

Brought to by Water Aid

www.actionagainsthunger.org

Campaign to End Malnutrition

 

 

Global hunger—both chronic and acute malnutrition—now afflicts more than a billion people worldwide, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Acute malnutrition, however, is the more immediate killer: it threatens 19 million—mostly young children—with starvation. Every year as many as 5 million children die from hunger-related causes.

This loss of life is all the more tragic because acute malnutrition is preventable, predictable, and cost- effective to treat. We know how to save starving children if we can reach them, but only about 3% ever receive help because traditional therapeutic programs were impossible to scale up. Yet this is about to change:

We now have the tools to end acute malnutrition.

A range of micronutrient-dense Ready-To-Use-Foods (RUFs) have been developed that are ideal tools for treating and preventing acute malnutrition. These new RUFs require no preparation, no dilution (avoiding dirty water), no refrigeration, have a long shelf-life, can be stored anywhere, and can be massively scaled up.

These tools are real and they’ve been tested. We simply need public support and political commitment to make this happen on a large enough scale to save the millions of children who die each year. No child should die of hunger today. Join the Campaign and help end childhood deaths from malnutrition!  Read More...

On the Front Lines of Malnutrition

An interview with the man in charge of ACF's Stabilization Center in Karamoja, Uganda
July 24, 2009

http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/get-involved/stories/2009/staff-and-volunteers/the-front-lines-malnutrition

Brought to you by Action Against Hunger

www.centeronhunger.org/

"An outgrowth of the Harvard-based Physician Task Force on Hunger in America which made field visits across the nation and released studies on the extent and causes of hunger in the nation, leading to Congressional resolve to address the problem."

World Hunger Year (WHY) www.worldhungeryear.org

"Is convinced that solutions to hunger and poverty can be found at the grassroots level. WHY advances long-term solutions to hunger and poverty by supporting community-based organizations that empower individuals and build self-reliance...we envision a world without hunger and poverty."WHY is a leading advocate for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. WHY challenges society to confront these problems by advancing models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food.”

I would like to give credit to http://www.heartsandminds.org for providing such amazing information.

www.one.org

ONE is a global advocacy and campaigning organization backed by more than 2 million people from around the world dedicated to fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

ONE works closely with policy experts, African leaders, and anti-poverty activists to mobilize public opinion in support of proven methods for tackling poverty. ONE holds world leaders to account for the commitments they've made to fight extreme poverty, and campaigns for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. ONE also supports greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively. At ONE, we believe the fight against poverty is not about charity, but about justice and equality.

Quick Facts

• The Global Fund has approved $15 billion and helped save an estimated 2.5 million lives since 2002.
• The G8 has delivered 14.5% of its promises on development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa, halfway to the target date of 2010.
• 34 million African children went to school for the first time between 1999 and 2006, thanks in part to debt relief and assistance for education.

Brought to you by ONE, www.one.org