| What specific problem does this project address? What can individuals and groups due to reduce their carbon footprint and slow climate change? |
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What research was done for this project? We will watch videos and read on the impacts of global warming and how they are creating climate change. We will do internet searches on this as well. David Noble has provided some links to sites and a package of information.
During the conference we will listen to the words and advice of experts. |
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How was this project decided upon? Thanks to our participation in Lights Out Canada ! we were invited to participate. David Nobel with 2DegreesC would be on a speaking tour across Canada about climate change. He has been trained by Al Gore (Inconvenient Truth) and has extensive experience having traveled to both the Arctic and the Antarctic. His stated objectives are to:
Engage audiences on climate change on an emotional level
Deepen participants’ concerns about climate change, and inspire new (and diverse) forms of citizenship responses to climate change .
Stimulate and be a catalyst for deeper community dialogues, commitments and actions on climate change
Central messages of David’s talks
We all need to be very active citizens in response to the climate crisis, both in our democracies and also in our culture.
We (ALL of us!) must pull hard (HARD!) in the same direction (TOGETHER!).
We are all capable of contributing to our collective re sponse in various ways. Yes we can!
He does this through two talks – one very science based and one based on story telling and experiences that is more emotional based. He loves to talk to students and has offered to meet some of them in a more face2face venue as well.
We thought we could make this a Parkland School Division event and perhaps involve the Town of Stony Plain and the City of Spruce Grove. |
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How will this project remain ongoing? bring together student leadership groups to make a plan for action in each school
meet periodically to carry out the plan in each school
hold video conferences between schools to provide support for each other and update on progress |
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| How is this project going to make a difference? This would be a way for our student to make a difference and be empowered to understand and engage in the debate on climate change. |
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