Global
Change Training
The Maryland Association
of Environmental and Outdoor Educators (MAEOE) along with
the Environment Project held a series of workshops focused
on global environmental change in the spring of 1999. High
school teachers and supervisors attended the workshops from
several disciplines including biology, environmental studies,
chemistry, earth science, and social studies. Workshop attendees
discussed global change education and its relationship to
the Core Learning Goals created by the Maryland State Department
of Education. Each workshop was developed and given by an
expert and focused on data, resources, and relevant articles,
discussion of the core learning goals, which are met by global
change education.
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Statewide
Energy Pollution Prevention Program
The
lack of comprehensive, pro-active strategies and mechanisms
to use energy wisely has enormous environmental and public
health implications. Emissions from energy-using activities
are altering atmospheric chemistry and these changes result
in environmental impacts at local, regional, and global scales.
Energy combustion and use is directly related to fuel-related
impacts on drinking water quality, on-going difficulties in
achieving federal urban air quality mandates, as well as increasing
atmospheric acidification and its associated terrestrial and
marine ecosystem effects. The Environment Project received
a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency, Region
3 Office for a project entitled "Statewide Energy Pollution
Prevention Program"(SEPPP). The
goals of SEPPP are to:
1.
Address environmental and health impacts of energy use, particularly
global warming,
2. Improve economic performance by alternative energy technologies
and management strategies.
Click
here for a series of webpages specific to this project.
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