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Going to Green

Grade Levels:	9 - 13+
Core Subject(s):	Science
Website:	http://www.uen.org/emedia
Usage rights:	Download and retain personal copies in perpetuity.

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Episodes:

• Going to Green: Balancing Green Space - Biodiversity

  Biodiversity explores how biodiversity is threatened by global climate change, human development, and pollution.

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• Going to Green: Balancing Green Space - Parks and Open Space

  Parks and Open Space highlights cities that have created green open space for the betterment of not only environmental health, but for economic viability as well.

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• Going to Green: Balancing Green Space - Soil Quality

  Soil Quality discusses the steps necessary to protect our nation's soil for future high quality and diversified food production as well as for the conservation of our natural open spaces.

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• Going to Green: Balancing Green Space - Transportation

  Transportation explored how cities can change the commuting ways and what effect it will have on their environmental health.

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• Going to Green: Elements of Sustainability - Air Quality

  Air Quality explores the social, economic and scientific ramifications of our air quality.

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• Going to Green: Elements of Sustainability - Green Building

  Green Building explores scientific innovations, supportive community action and effective political reform behind the advances in green building practices.

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• Going to Green: Elements of Sustainability - Renewable Energy

  Renewable Energy examines the future of a variety of alternative sources of fuel.

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• Going to Green: Elements of Sustainability - Water Quality

  Water Quality focuses on the basics of water quality monitoring, water pollution control, alternate watershed plans and the impact of the Clean Water Act.

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• Going to Green: Implementing Urban Greening - Integrated Resources Management

  Integrated Resources Management (IRM) shows how an integrated and cooperative approach to resource management provides the answer to safeguarding our fragile and finite natural resources.

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• Going to Green: Implementing Urban Greening - Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens

  Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens presents the challenges of growing and distributing our nation's food supply through urban farming, CSA's, farmers markets, and organic markets.

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• Going to Green: Implementing Urban Greening - Urban Forestry

  Urban Forestry discusses how tree planting and maintenance foster community spirit and strengthen neighborhoods.

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• Going to Green: Implementing Urban Greening - Urban Planning

  Urban Planning examines the history and foresight of some of America's most renowned city planners and urban designers, and how many of their ideas are again inspiring cities seeking to rejuvenate their urban core through greater sustainable design.

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• Going to Green: Public Policy and Green Collar Opportunities - Environmental Justice

  Environmental Justice explores modern social issues and their direct impact upon environmental justice.

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• Going to Green: Public Policy and Green Collar Opportunities - Green Collar Careers

  Green Collar Careers focuses on the vocational advantages of embracing environmental education in schools and stewardship in communities.

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• Going to Green: Public Policy and Green Collar Opportunities - Public Policy & Community Action

  Public Policy & Community Action explains how model ordinances can be put into place to assist municipalities in becoming more sustainable, and the role that students, teachers and citizen activists can play in that process.

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• Going to Green: Public Policy and Green Collar Opportunities - Sustainable Commerce

  Sustainable Commerce tackles the long-held myth that environment stewardship is at odds with industrial and economic development and expansion.

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• Going to Green: Towards a More Sustainable Community - Building Community

  Building Community explores the art of community and why community-based support is so important to ecosystem restoration.

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• Going to Green: Towards a More Sustainable Community - Education in Action

  Education in Action will acquaint both teacher and student with the full scope of the content-driven lessons and the accompanying follow-up service learning activities.

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• Going to Green: Towards a More Sustainable Community - Understanding Sustainability

  Understanding Sustainability includes on-location demonstrations of best-practice eco-sustainable activities.

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• Going to Green: Towards a More Sustainable Community - Waste Management

  Waste Management and Recycling addresses the need to re-use natural resources and upgrade our urban infrastructure to accommodate waste and conserve energy.

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