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What kind of fuels should we be using, and how should we be using them? Check out these resources for citizens, teachers and students to learn more about energy issues and the environment:
- The Planet Forward quiz, Facts, Myths & What Most Americans Know About Energy, is a quick way to start thinking about the facts as we consider changes in the ways we power our world.
- Planet Forward, the web site, PBS TV show and web sequel produced in association with Public Agenda, in which ordinary citizens join experts in debating energy issues. Videos contributed by viewers, scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and more are great ways to help students and concerned citizens think and talk about what we ought to be doing – and why. The show can be viewed from beginning to end, one segment at a time, or one video at a time.
- For teachers, assigning students to submit content to Planet Forward can be a great classroom exercise. The topic is: should we move off fossil fuels, and if so, how should we do it? Students age 13 and up may submit content (videos, essays, poems, photos, songs, podcasts) but minors must have parental permission in order to do so.
- Public Agenda's new report on energy issues - The Energy Learning Curve™ - is a good discussion-starter for citizens and high school and college students studying the decisions now facing federal, state and local governments regarding energy and the environment.
- Planet Forward's Fast Facts About Energy section: charts and graphs with some eye-opening facts about how we find, produce and make energy, and the challenges we face now and in the future.
- Public Agenda's Citizen's Survival Kit Guide to Climate Change, which includes comprehensive but short summaries of the issues, as well as different choices on how we could approach the problem, very helpful as a guide for discussion in the classroom and in the community.
- Community leaders and high school and college students may also benefit from a related video and pdf, "Facing The Challenges Of Climate Change: A Guide For Citizen Thought And Action."
- Public Agenda's issue guide on The Environment, which includes lots of interesting and helpful facts including public opinion on various public policy proposals.
