Grades 9-12

Sustainability 101:

• Down to Earth with Zac Efron (on Netflix)

• Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life by Linda Sivertsen

• We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

• 8 Things You Need to Know About the IPCC 1.5 °C Report

• Climate Change: How Do We Know?

• Climate Emergency: World ‘May Have Crossed Tipping Points’

• Dear Future Generations: Sorry

• Greta Thunberg’s speech at the UN Climate Action Summit

• Report: We Have Just 12 Years to Limit Devastating Global Warming

Waste:

• Burning Trash Bad for Humans and Global Warming

• Climate Change and Waste

• Factsheet: Waste & Climate Change

• From Waste to Resources: Everyone Can Help Divert Waste from Landfill

• How Does Franklin County’s Waste Stack Up?

• How Your Trash Is Contributing to Climate Change

• I Want You To Stop Recycling

• In Pictures: How Southern Africa Manages Its Waste

• Southeast Asia Doesn’t Want to Be the World’s Dumping Ground. Here’s How Some Countries Are Pushing Back

• Sustainable Materials Management: Non-Hazardous Waste Materials and Waste Management Hierarchy

• SWACO Virtual Tour of the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill

• The Trash One Person Produces in One Year

• What Does It Mean to Take Responsibility For Our Waste? 

• Why Lauren Singer, the ‘Zero Trash Girl’, is My Crush of the Month

• Yes, You Recycle. But Until You Start Reducing, You’re Still Killing the Planet

• The Recycling Journey

• Rumpke Tour Introduction

• Wishcycling: What Actually Goes In Your Recycling? 

• Disc Screen at Rumpke

• Batteries and Electronics at Rumpke

• Recycling Rapid Fire

• Recycle Right

• Recycling Quiz

• Make a Difference

• Recycle Right Frequently Asked Questions

• Recycling in Broken. Here’s How We Can Fix It

• Coronavirus Updates from Rumpke

• Virtual Field Trip #4- Rumpke Recycling Center (optional)

Food and Food Waste:

• A Guide to Expiration Dates

• Food Production is Responsible for One-Quarter of the World’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions 

• Food Recovery Hierarchy 

• Food Wastage Footprint 2

• Food Waste Could Have Funded a Fifth of Israel’s COVID-19 Aid Budget- Expert 

• Food Waste is the World’s Dumbest Problem 

• From Food Waste to Resources: Discarded Food Has Economic, Environmental, and Social Costs

• Giant Eagle Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report (pages 38-42) 

• How Dated Food Labels Contribute to Food Waste

• How to Reduce Food Waste

• How Your Food Choices Can Help Fight Climate Change

• Kroger Environmental, Social, and Governance Report (pages 14-23)

• Savethefood.com (spend 5 minutes browsing) 

• Test Your Food Waste Knowledge

• The Art of Compost

• This Is the Best Diet to Save the Planet

• Tristam Stuart: The global food waste scandal 

• Wasted! The Story of Food Waste (does include some foul language; please watch only with parental permission) 

• Zero Waste: Thought For Food

Consumption Reduction:

• Consumerism Plays a Huge Role in Climate Change

• The Personal Feelings of an Environmentalist on Cyber Monday

• The Story of Stuff

• This is how Black Friday Hurts the Planet But Attitudes Are Changing 

• Yes, You Recycle. But Until You Start Reducing, You’re Still Killing the Planet

• 10 “Low-Buy” Rules I’m Following To Be Debt-Free by 2022” 

• America’s Dopamine-Fueled Shopping Addiction

• America the Wasteful: A Detailed Way Into Our Throw-Away Society

• Buy Nothing Day

• Do We Throw Away Too Much Stuff? 

• How Can We Avoid Overconsumption in our Everyday Lives?

• The High Cost of Our Throwaway Culture

• The Problem with Consumerism

Energy and Electricity:

• How Much Energy Does the U.S. Use?

• Bill Nye Solves the Energy Crisis

• The Weekly Planet: What Extremely Muscular Horses Teach Us About Climate Change

• What Are Fossil Fuels? 

• What If We Stopped Burning Fossil Fuels Right Now? 

• Most of America’s Dirty Power Plants will be Ready to Retire by 2035

• Can 100% Renewable Energy Power the World?- Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei

• How 100% Clean Energy Could Power Our Cities and Towns

• Fossil Fuel Companies Know How to Stop Global Warming. Why Don’t They?

• How Coronavirus is Changing Electricity Usage, in 3 Charts

• The EU’s Biggest Oil Producer Has Taken a Huge Step: It’s Ending Oil Production by 2050

• BrainPOP Conserving Energy

• BrainPOP Fossil Fuels

• How America Can Leave Fossil Fuels Behind, In One Chart | 2020 Election

• BrainPOP Biofuels

Anti-Pollution Revolution:

• HB 242 Opponent Testimony Ben Kessler

• Noise is the Next Great Public Health Crisis

• Researchers Say Pollution is a Social Justice Issue

• Serious Effects of Light Pollution

• Soil Pollution

• What Effects Does Water Pollution Have on Human Health?

Wonderful Water:

• Our Global Water Crisis, Explained 

• 6 Years After Water Crisis Began, What Has Changed in Flint - and What Hasn’t 

• Water, Health and Ecosystems 

• How Many Species Live in the Ocean?

• The Carbon-Eaters

• Big Coastal Cities Sink Faster than Seas Rise

• Water Heating

• The Voyage to the End of Ice

• Water Protection

• Water Sources

• Oil Spills 

• Ten Things You Can do to Prevent Stormwater Runoff Pollution

• How and Why to Build a Rain Garden 

• Water & Clothing

Biodiversity:

• What is Biodiversity?

• What is Biodiversity and Why Does it Matter to Us?

• Biodiversity and You

• Biodiversity Loss

• How You Can Keep Bees from Becoming Endangered

• The ‘Extinction’ of Bananas Shows Us Why Our Food System Needs Help

• Preventing Pandemics, Global Warming, and Environmental Degradation All at Once

• Why Are Native Plants so Important?

• What You Can Do

• 52 Tips for Biodiversity

• Love Your Alley

• Seaspiracy

• The Biggest Little Farm

Advocacy:

• 6 Tips for Becoming a Youth Activist (As Told By a Youth Activist)

• 9 Teen Climate Activists Fighting for the Future of the Planet

• Greta Thunburg

• I am Greta (available on Hulu)

• Meet the Young Activists of Color Who Are Leading the Charge Against Climate Disaster

• Save the Planet (available through BPL)

• The A-Z of Youth Climate Activism