HOT & BOTHERED
February 3rd, 2012 by Gaby
It’s almost Super Bowl Weekend and let’s face it: whether or not you actually like football, you’ll be watching it for the commercials, the halftime show or just for the nachos (mmm nachos). For those of you who don’t follow football, this year it’s the New York Giants (GMEN!) vs. the New England Patriots. Can you tell which team I’ll be rooting for?
But, how does the Super Bowl fit into going green? Here are some tips for greening your Sunday:
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
February 2nd, 2012 by JD
Several athletes took time out of their busy days to come present with me as well as sign some autographs . Presenting with athletes provided real context to how climate change is already affecting mountain communities that rely on snow to drive their economies, and what the future may entail for winter sports all over the world. They even shared their DOTs (Do One Things) like using a reusable water bottle, eating locally, utilizing public transportation, supporting companies that have good business practices, and biking instead of driving. Then they picked three lucky students to come up on stage to say their DOT and receive a sweet t-shirt! And the schools loved it!
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February 1st, 2012 by Gaby
This is a guest post by ACE’s founder Mike Haas.
As the Founder of ACE, I’m thrilled to announce that we’re launching a quarterly newsletter. We look forward to keeping you up to date, and sharing stories of amazing high school students who are creating their own extraordinary climate solutions all around the country. We also hope to hear from you. Send us your feedback, ideas, and questions.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
January 30th, 2012 by Gaby
Youth Rep Kavi Reddy, Senior at the Athenian School in CA spoke at the Youth Empowerment Summit last week. This is her speech.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KU5k4ZSue8&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]Hello fellow Greenies! Alright, so I’m up here right now to prove to you guys that being young means we CAN make a difference. Teachers, adults, and professionals might all try to claim otherwise, but truth is every single one of you out there has the ability to be activists of change in this world. All you need is a few things… So let me hear you answer these questions:
1) Do you care about stopping climate change?
2) Are you willing to work together and be a force of change for this movement?
3) Are you ready to show the world with passion, ambition, and dedication, we CAN be leaders of
change in this world?
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
January 27th, 2012 by Gaby
A few days ago, President Obama held the State of the Union Address, the annual address that is presented to the President of the United States to the United States congress. It’s a pretty big deal because it maps out where the administration plans to in 2012- and what policies it will put in place.
2012 is an especially big year for President Obama because it’s an election year. Okay, enough with the political talk, you’re probably thinking. How is this relevant to climate education?
Well, this year Obama talked about renewable energy and how the United States can begin transitioning over to clean energy sources. He called Congress to pass a federal “clean energy standard,” which would mean that by 2035, at least 80% of power used by electric utilities must come from natural gas, nuclear and renewable sources. Obama explicitly stated: “…I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy.” Which is great news, especially after years of fossil fuels being subsidized instead of clean energy sources. President Obama also proposed a $5 billion subsidy to help start up clean energy manufacturers.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
January 26th, 2012 by Gaby
Chloe Maxmin attended Lincoln Academy in Damariscotta, Maine for high school and is currently a first-year student at Harvard University. While in high school, Chloe founded her school’s Climate Action Club (http://laclimateaction.webs.
Where do you go to college now and what work are you doing around climate change?
I go to Harvard College, and I’m involved with various projects both and on and off campus to educate people about climate change and contribute to mitigation efforts. I’m involved with one group that is organizing the first Green Economy Caucus in the Massachusetts Legislature. I’m part of another organization that is planning a renewable energy demonstration on campus to educate students about renewable energy and Harvard’s commitment to solar panels, wind power, and geothermal. I also work with an exclusively first-year organization dedicated to making energy-efficiency improvements around campus. Earlier in the year I worked on campus to protest the Keystone XL pipeline and educate students about the proposal. I am on the Editorial Board of the Harvard Crimson, writing about environmentalism on campus and around the world. I also write for Next Gen Journal to share some of my ideas about climate change and educate a larger audience. I tweet and maintain my website–First Here, Then Everywhere–as well.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
January 25th, 2012 by Gaby
You may have seen this guy running around in his blue track suit, repping ACE in Biggest Loser: Energy videos. But starring in videos is just one part of Kevin Kailath’s dynamic role here at ACE as the Student Action Program Coordinator. We flagged Kev down to ask him a few questions. Check out the exclusive interview below!
How long have you been at ACE?
I’ve been working at ACE for about 5 months and loving my time here.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
January 24th, 2012 by Rebecca
2011 was a year of extremes. Extremes like Tim Tebow’s winning streak and Kim Kardashian’s shortest-ever marriage, but also extremes of the weather variety.
Last year, the U.S. got hit with a record-breaking total of 14 weather disasters of over a billion dollars each, from Hurricane Irene to wildfires in Texas to the series of tornado outbreaks last spring. (2008 is the #2 year with only 9 billion-dollar weather disasters.)
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Rebecca is an ACE Educator and the ACE Team Scientist. She's done research in the Arctic and Antarctic and loves to geek-out on all things climate science-related! Ask her a question at science@climateeducation.org.
January 23rd, 2012 by Rebecca
This week, an article came out in the LA Times describing climate change education as the new “evolution debate” in schools, reporting that some states are considering new policies that would require teachers to “teach climate change denial as a valid scientific position.”
ACE was founded to fill an enormous gap in our educational sciences curriculum around this very subject. Currently, there are no state or national science standards in public high schools that address teaching of the science of global warming, even though 98% of the world’s climate scientists agree that humans are causing climate change, and the consequences could be extraordinary.
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Rebecca is an ACE Educator and the ACE Team Scientist. She's done research in the Arctic and Antarctic and loves to geek-out on all things climate science-related! Ask her a question at science@climateeducation.org.
January 19th, 2012 by Gaby
It’s been quite a week, between President Obama blocking the Keystone XL Pipeline, SOPA/ PIPA’s internet black out day yesterday, Apple announcing iBooksl, a textbook platform, Kodak going bankrupt…. the list goes on and on. And on.
But at the top of our list of wordly happenings is that teaching climate change in schools is now on the same level as teaching evolution in schools. What I mean is this: there is now more and more resistance to to teaching man-made climate change in both middle and high schools despite the fact that all scientific evidence shows that yes, climate change is caused by man-made activities, such as copious amounts of fossil fuel consumption.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
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