Thursday, November 04, 2004

[Schools] Big Plan on Campus: Universities Combat Climate Change While the U.S. government snubs the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a small but growing number of colleges and universities are weaning themselves from carbon and adopting new attitudes about energy. 1:17:55 PM Google It!    [Schools] Student's science project proves to be a winner A Kansas City sixth-grader decided to test the energy efficiency of various shapes for his science project. He tested how well the shapes preserved set temperatures. He got the idea from reading about how housing developers chose the shapes for different rooms in houses based on the shape's ability to preserve a room's temperature. His project won first prize in a city contest. [Source: Kansas City Star] 12:58:00 PM Google It!    [Schools] 'Smart' schools cut energy costs With energy costs threatening to reach record levels this winter, schools and colleges from coast to coast are scrambling to find ways to enhance the efficiency of their physical plants. Researchers and architects are hard at work developing innovative ways to help educators lighten the burden of escalating fuel costs. [Source: eSchool News] 12:28:13 PM Google It!    [Schools] Kids make own lesson in landfill permanence Fourth-graders at St. Ursula Villa atop Mount Lookout are learning some valuable lessons after a recent field trip to another Cincinnati "mountain" - Mount Rumpke. "Garbage won't go away very fast," said 9-year-old Anthony Asher at St. Ursula's historic 21-acre campus, believed to be the highest point in Mount Lookout. Two weeks before the field trip to Rumpke landfill in Colerain Township, Anthony and 41 other students in teacher Sarah Brady's two science classes made their own landfills by filling shoeboxes with soil, eggshells, coffee grounds, celery, carrots, onions and other food scraps. Students sealed and covered the boxes for three weeks then opened them last week to determine if, and how, the items decomposed. [Source: Cincinnati Enquirer] 12:24:02 PM Google It!

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