Sustainable Climate Resources

Campus Projects

UMass Dartmouth Climate Commitment
Energy Conservation Campaign
Sustainability Navigators
Student Activism (Mass PIRG, Net Impact, Social Change Society)
Advancing Research in Climate Monitoring, Environmental Forecasting

Curricular Resources

Instructional Development
Classroom Action
News/TV
Maps & Country Data
Data & Software Tools (Carbon Footprint Calculators)

Instructional Development

Climate Change Education - The website directs visitors to hundreds of links to great resources on Climate Change topics, lesson plans, outreach campaigns, solution tools, maps, science demonstrations. The portal is designed for teachers, students, kids, families, educators.
EPA's Global Warming Site - Contains a wealth of materials that educators and outreach professionals can use in presentations and classroom activities on climate change science, potential impacts, and mitigation options. A kids' site includes animations of global warming and earth processes (for Grades 5-9). A calculator lets students estimate their household's greenhouse gas emissions and explore ways to reduce emissions. A database offers nearly 100 lesson plans, videos, books, toolkits, and other fun materials on climate change.
Global Warming Science & Impacts - The Union of Concerns Scientists website contains many resources for teaching climate change. Topics include the Science of Climate Change, Facts vs. Fiction, Practical Solutions, as well as data and statistics.

Classroom Action

Stop Global Warming - Learn what your class or school can do today to help stop global warming. The website offers a collection of action plans and outreach materials to kick-start a global warming action campaign and ways to share your results.
National Science Digital Library - Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
Global Climate Change Exploratorium - The Clobal Climate Change Research Explorer of the National Science Foundation provides background information on physics, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and even sociology of Climate Change.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Over a decade ago, most countries joined an international treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- to begin to consider what can be done to reduce global warming and to cope with whatever temperature increases are inevitable. Recently, a number of nations have approved an addition to the treaty: the Kyoto Protocol, which has more powerful (and legally binding) measures.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
The GHG Protocol - The GHG Protocol is the most widely used international accounting framework for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. It is a decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and it works with businesses, governments, and environmental groups worldwide to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.

News Clippings

ClimateWire - This is an international news clipping service focused specifically on climate change news. You can subscribe to receive daily climate change headlines via email. The site also offers archived articles for background reading on specific climate change-related topics, and a geographical breakdown of news.
PBS - NOVA and Frontline have created an engaging, interactive website from PBS that explores the science behind global warming and provides a hands-on game to reveal your "carbon diet."

Maps

National Georgraphic's Global Warming Maps - Climate Change scenarios, based on Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Summary for Policymakers, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, April 2007.
Early Warning Science Map - The Early Warning Science Map is a science-based world map depicting the local and regional consequences of global climate change.
Google's Climate Change in Our World - Google's Climate Change in Our World has created an animated map of the earth from space that illustrates the potential impact of climate change over the next century.

Data & Software Tools

Carbon Tracker - A system to keep track of carbon dioxide uptake and release at the Earth's surface over time.
Carbon Emissions Calculators - The EPA's carbon emissions calculators allow estimating your household's annual emissions.
Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator - This equivalency calculator may be useful in communicating your greenhouse gas reduction strategy, reduction targets, or other initiatives aimed at reducing GHG emissions.

Community Projects

New Bedford Oceanarium UMass Dartmouth and the New Bedford Oceanarium today announced a major partnership designed to enhance science education in the region and across the Commonwealth.

The "Science on a Sphere®" (SOS) installation is a revolutionary new display that uses high-speed computers, multiple projectors and advanced imaging techniques to create a 3D image of the planet. It allows a large number of scientific data sets can be graphically displayed, clearly demonstrating important environmental issues on a global scale (e.g., climate change, ocean currents, weather patterns, dispersion of potential contaminants, etc.).
Earth Day Parade in New Bedford, MA - The annual Earth Eve procession is an Earth Day celebration on AHA! Night in April in downtown New Bedford where Mother Earth and Father Ocean 2009 will lead a procession of eco-floats through historic downtown New Bedford.

Community Resources

Climate Change Networks

New England Climate Coalition - The New England Climate Coalition is a group of over 150 state, local, regional and national environmental, public health, municipal and religious organizations dedicated to achieving global warming pollution reductions in the region.
Mass Climate Action Network - MCAN is a coalition of locally organized groups fighting the climate crisis by growing a focused statewide movement.
Massachusetts PowerShift - Massachusetts Power Shift (MAPS) is a non-partisan network of climate activists advocating for immediate, bold, and comprehensive solutions to climate change.

Activist Tools

Climate Change - What Can you Do? - This site provides easy steps you can take to not only reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, but also reduce air pollution, increase the nation's energy independence and save money.
Classroom Action - Stop Global Warming - Learn what your class or school can do today to help stop global warming. The website offers a collection of action plans and outreach materials to kick-start a global warming action campaign and ways to share your results.
Earth Day Network - Join the Earth Day Network and help mobilize the movement to promote a healthy, sustainable planet.