Topic Resources: Fuel and Energy

Topic: Fuel and Energy

Resource: Web-site promoting nuclear energy

Web Link: http://www.cna.ca/nuclear_facts/nuclear_environment/

Resource: Statistics on the amount of energy individuals and industry use each year

Web Link: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_electricity_does_1_person_use_in_a_year#slide8

Resource: Pros and Cons of different sources of energy

Web Link: http://www.dlist.org/burning-issues/energy-sources-what-are-the-pros-and-cons

Local and Global Perspectives

Resource: The town shaping a green revolution

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60241966

Resource: Swiss solutions for storing renewable energy

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-solutions-for-storing-the-energy-of-tomorrow/47401762?utm_content=o&utm_campaign=own-posts&utm_medium=display&utm_source=swissinfoch

Resource: Ukraine innovating for the future

Source: http://www.bbc.com/storyworks/future/ukraine-innovating-for-the-future/ukraines-infrastructure-and-logistics-

Resource: Switzerland gets 75% of power from renewable sources

Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-get-75--of-power-from-renewable-sources/46016854

Resource: Statistics on how the average American uses energy

Web Link: http://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/how-the-average-american-uses-energy/

Resource: Positives and negatives of America's largest solar energy farm

Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-opens-worlds-largest-solar-power-farm--as-evidence-emerges-that-it-leaves-birds-who-fly-over-scorched-9131847.html

Resource: Germany's clean energy solutions face threat of reduced funding

Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/05/subsidy-cuts-and-weak-eu-targets-cloud-german-solar-energy-revolution

Scenarios

Resource: European countries soon to run out of fossil fuels

Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/uk-to-run-out-of-fossil-fuels-in-five-years-9385415.html

Resource: Cost of air pollution to Health Services across Europe

Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/25/air-pollution-costs-britain-10bn-a-year-report-shows

Courses of Action and Personal Response

Resource: Initiative to get next generation thinking about alternative energy for the future

Web Link: http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/inspiring-a-new-sustainable-generation

Resource: USA and China pledge to cut greenhouse emissions

Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/12/china-and-us-make-carbon-pledge

Resource: How to save energy at home

Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220420-living-in-an-eco-house-in-the-middle-of-an-energy-crisis

Resource: Alpine nations for for carbon neutral transport by 2050.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/alpine-nations-aim-for-climate-neutral-transport-by-2050/48010618?utm_campaign=teaser-in-querylist&utm_medium=display&utm_source=swissinfoch&utm_content=o

Topic Resources: Conflict and Peace

Local and Global Perspectives

Resource: IS losing control of conflict zones
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27838034

Resource: Article on problems in Sweden where smacking children was banned in 1979
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-sweden-right-to-spare-the-rod-a-new-book-has-attacked-the-1979-decision-to-ban-smacking-8916458.html

Resource: Arguments against spanking children
Web Link: http://www.neverhitachild.org/haeuser.html

Resource: Plight of Syrian war refugee children
Web Link: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/commentary/education-can-bring-hope-girls-who-are-victims-wars-and-unrest

Resource: Syrian refugees die in Mediterranean Sea: Stories of survivors
Web Link: http://www.channel4.com/news/migrants-mediterranean-survivors-boat-sink-deaths-europe

Resource: What if civil war came here?
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/if-london-were-syria-save-the-children-releases-unsettling-video-9168988.html

Resource: Findings that video games do not make us more violent
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/10/video-games-violent-study-finds

Resource: Ukraine peace deal in grave danger
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31463007

Resource: The suffering of citizens in the Ukraine war
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31759405

Resource: Numbers of people displaced internally by conflict at all-time high
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-32608172
Scenarios

Resource: US accuses Chinese cyber hackers of spying
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/us-charges-chinese-military-hackers-with-cyber-espionage-bid-to-gain-advantage-in-nuclear-power-metals-and-solar-product-industries-9397661.html

Courses of Action and Personal Response

Resource: UN home page
Web Link: http://www.un.org/en/

Resource: UN initiatives for peace through sport
Web Link: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/sport/

Resource: Prisons use sport to reform members of Boko Haram
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34217187

Topic Resources: Trade and Aid

Local and Global Perspectives

Global shortages expectd as climate action, climate change and covid have an effect.

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-58868636

18 000 child labourers working on farms supplying Nestle
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/bitter-chocolate-_nestl%C3%A9-identifies-over-18-000-child-labourers-in-cocoa-supply-chain/45423936

Prices of goods mostly higher in Switzerland than in rest of Europe
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/consumer-prices_domestic-manufacturers-contribute-to--high-price--switzerland/45168960

Switzerland could lose billions in multinational tax reforms
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/smaller-slice_switzerland-could-lose-billions-in-global-corporate-tax-reform/45111912

Source: Smartphone generates higher levels of online shopping
Link: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/swiss-consumer-habits_smartphone-shopping-boosts-online-trade/45048146

Source: Human consumerism the cause of mass loss of species
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46028862

Resource: Evidence of plastic waste in the Arctic
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-42990391/plastic-pollution-reaching-record-levels-in-once-pristine-arctic

Resource: Evidence of plastic waste in Caribbean
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-41866046/the-giant-mass-of-plastic-waste-taking-over-the-caribbean

Resource: Pollution linked to one in six deaths worldwide
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41678533

Resource: Blockage in amount of recycling leads to waste mountains
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41582924

Resource: Island has worst case of global waste washed up on shore
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39931042

Resource: Article on Taliban attacks on Pakistan shopping centre
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistans-piccadilly-is-no-1-taliban-target-the-regularity-of-terror-attacks-in-peshawars-bazaar-leads-to-citizens-questioning-their-seemingly-rudderless-leadership-8852025.html

Resource: The truth about snake skin handbags
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/stomachchurning-images-show-the-shocking-truth-about-indonesian-snake-slaughterhouses-9167783.html

Resource: The effects of cotton farming and agriculture on the Aral Sea (Russia)
Web Link: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/30/6873947/the-aral-sea-was-once-the-fourth-largest-lake-in-the-world-now-its

Resource: Why we need to reduce the number of plastic bags we use
Web Link: http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/this-is-why-getting-rid-of-plastic-bags-is-a-good-thing--ZJgn1mNA7De?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100

Scenarios

Courses of Action and Personal Response

Resource: Swiss pact to improve cocoa plant conditions
Link: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/sweet-sustainability_chocolate-industry-makes-pact-to-improve-conditions/43294948

Resource: Norway's answer to the plastic problem
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-42968529/plastic-bottle-scheme-that-could-help-clean-the-oceans

Resource: Eco-friendly was to make smartphones
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171024-an-eco-friendly-way-to-make-smartphones

Resource: Teaching children about where food comes from
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/18/hens-hire-schools-education?INTCMP=mic_232620

Resource: Charging for plastic bags see major reduction in use
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/four-charts-that-show-why-we-need-to-charge-5p-for-plastic-bags-a6680016.html

Resource: Waste plastic can be used in making roads
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-39693091/can-plastic-roads-help-save-the-planet

Topic Resources: Education

Introduction

Resource: Reasons why UN demanded the universal right to education
Web Link: http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/briefingpapers/efa/

Resource: Why children are bored at school and have few real friends
Web Link: https://wellbeingforkids.com.au/reasons-todays-kids-are-bored-at-school-feel-entitled-have-little-patience-few-real-friends/

Local and Global Perspectives 

Resource: Good grades, a desk and supportive parents good for university ambitions
Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50421027

Resource: Global league tables for education standards
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-38157811

Resource: Countries where sleep deprivation affects academic performance
Web Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22209818

Resource: Countries where primary school children still do not attend school (2013)
Web Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22803632

Resource: Girls outperforming boys at school but earning less in workplace
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/15/women-equal-but-not-treated-equally?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-3%20%28comment%29%20Pickable%20with%20editable%20override:Pickable%20with%20editable%20override:Position2

Resource: State schools do less well in sport than private schools
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/video/?videoid=3633047267001

Resource: Computer Gaming up to an hour good for children's development
Web Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11008989/Playing-video-games-for-up-to-an-hour-a-day-is-good-for-children.html

Resource: The 'daily mile run' in Scottish schools
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/28/daily-mile-school-st-ninians-stirling-scotland

Resource: China's schools accused of denying individuality
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34605430

Scenarios
Resource: Cost to economy of failing schools

Web Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271011/Failing-schools-hampering-economy-Britain-prosper-unless-education-overhauled-report-warns.html

Courses of Action and Personal Response

Resource: Schools in Finland adapt education to modern world
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/education-40043254/why-finland-is-changing-its-top-ranking-education-system

Resource: Schools Put Character formation before exam results
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-3-rs--ready-respectful-and-resilient-a-school-has-put-pupils-character-formation-before-exam-results-9179084.html

Resource: Children's need for play
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/give-childhood-back-to-children-if-we-want-our-offspring-to-have-happy-productive-and-moral-lives-we-must-allow-more-time-for-play-not-less-are-you-listening-gove-9054433.html 

Resource: Success of a charity putting girls into school
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/feb/28/ann-cotton-educating-millions-within-africa-by-inspiring-sustainable-change 

Resource: Malawi parents keeping daughters in school
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/01/malawi-forget-madonna-parents-keep-girls-at-school 

Topic Resources: Changing Communities

Introduction

Resource: Girl arrested for use of TikTok as social media influencer 

Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53733841 

Resource: Nigerian village where men and women speak different languages
Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45262081

Resource: Catalan views on independence
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-41356849/why-some-catalans-want-independence-and-some-don-t

Resource: Migration to Europe in charts
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34131911




Local and Global Perspectives 

Resource: Switzerland commits funding for immigrant integration

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-tops-up-migrant-integration-funding/47991340?utm_campaign=teaser-in-querylist&utm_content=o&utm_source=swissinfoch&utm_medium=display

Resource: Last man of indigenous tribe dies near Bolivia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62712318

Resource: Why Switzerland needs specialist foreign workers

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/why-switzerland-needs-workers-from-abroad/46694984?utm_content=o&utm_campaign=own-posts&utm_medium=display&utm_source=swissinfoch

Resource: Japan backs same sex marriage

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56425002

Resource: Is the western way of bringing up children all wrong?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children

Resource: Europe's last matriarchy

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p095htgq/inside-the-last-matriarchy-in-europe

Resource: Teenagers in the Arctic circle fear losing their homes

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-54572400

A third of Swiss residents have migrant background

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/a-third-of-swiss-residents-have-migrant-background-/46093696

Benefits of free movement of labour
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/free-movement-benefits-swiss-job-market--says-report/45867570

Switzerland moves closer to agreeing same sex marriage
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/marital-status_same-sex-marriage-moves-forward-in-parliament-despite-opposition/45803642

Switzerland has lowest teenage pregnancy rate
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/family-planning_teenage-mothers-rare-in-careful-switzerland/45136484

Switzerland predicts shortage of workers due to ageing population
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/latest-news/ageing-societies_half-a-million-swiss-jobs-vacancies-predicted-in-10-years-/45090136

Resource: Fight to save a forgotten language in North America
Link: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181002-north-americas-nearly-forgotten-language

Resource: Tanzanian president calls for end to contraception
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45474408

Resource: Hungarian PM thinks Europe is being invaded
Link; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Viktor_Orban

Resource: Iceland discusses bill to ban circumcision
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43111800

Resource: Threat to Brazil's carnival
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-42998269/rio-carnival-s-last-dance

Resource: Iranian women protesting at having to wear hijab
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-42954970/iran-s-hijab-protests-the-girls-of-revolution-street

Resource: Spanish town resists globalisation of leather products
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-40771807/the-tiny-spanish-town-luring-top-designers

Resource: Namibia's dying traditional lifestyle
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40247310

Resource: Woman defies Saudi dress code
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40660735

Resource: Women sent to a hut during menstruation
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38559566

Resource: How English is changing to accommodate globalisation
Link; http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161215-you-need-to-go-back-to-school-to-relearn-english

Resource: How photos of women could be seen in some countries
Link; http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36130971

Resource: Women who rule the family
Link: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160916-worlds-largest-matrilineal-society

Resource: Spanish protests against bullfighting
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37329315

Resource: Russians who preferred communism
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37130143

Resource: Controversy in Switzerland over Muslim boys' right not to shake hands in school
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35967349

Resource: Portuguese immigrant workers change culture of Swiss village
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17338922

Resource: Women forced to abort female foetus
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/i-had-to-terminate-my-pregnancies-because-i-was-carrying-girls--the-story-of-a-woman-forced-into-genderselective-abortions-9193623.html


Resource: UK nationalist MP admits immigration has brought diversity to UK culture
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-immigration-has-jollified-britain-and-improved-the-food--but-time-to-stop-changing-our-communities-9163697.html

Resource: Article on Taliban attacks on Pakistan shopping centre
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistans-piccadilly-is-no-1-taliban-target-the-regularity-of-terror-attacks-in-peshawars-bazaar-leads-to-citizens-questioning-their-seemingly-rudderless-leadership-8852025.html

Resource: Article on African immigrants who died trying to escape their culture
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-boat-wreck-hundreds-of-migrants-feared-dead-after-ship-sinks-off-lampedusa-8855735.html

Resource: Story of an Eritrean refugee escaping his country heading for Switzerland
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/lampedusa-survivors-tragedy-at-sea?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position3

Resource: Short film on the threat of rainforest destrution for tribal people
Web Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9RzBX_cdqc

Resource: Consequences for woman who leaves the family faith
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/allah-vs-atheism-leaving-islam-was-the-hardest-thing-ive-done-9069598.html

Resource:  Article showing statistics on global migration

Web Link:  http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/sep/11/on-the-move-232-million-migrants-in-the-world

Resource: Report on woman stoned to death because she owned a mobile phone
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/special-report-the-punishment-was-death-by-stoning-the-crime-having-a-mobile-phone-8846585.html

Resource: Ancient rainforest tribe under threat of extinction
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-fatal-clash-of-civilisations-lost-amazonian-tribe-under-threat-from-illegal-loggers-operating-in-their-traditional-territories-9582973.html

Resource: Attitudes of societies around the world towards homosexuality
Web Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_attitudes_toward_homosexuality

Resource: Girls in Afghanistan not permitted to attend school
Web Link: http://www.irinnews.org/indepthmain.aspx?InDepthID=28&ReportID=69986  

Resource: Saudi women arrested for driving
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30602155 

Resource: Death of last remaing member of 65,000 year old tribe.
Web Link: http://worldobserveronline.com/2013/07/06/last-member-of-65000-year-old-tribe-dies-taking-one-of-worlds-earliest-languages-to-the-grave/ 

Resource: Spanish tradition of bull-fighting causes many deaths in short time
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33957505 

Resource: Elton John wants meeting with Putin to discuss attitude to gay rights
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34235739 

Resource: Death ritual in Papua New Guinea
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151130-one-of-most-bizarre-rituals-of-the-ancient-world

Resource: Burkini challenges French values of liberty and fraternity
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37093420

Scenarios

Resource: Blog discussing whether tribal cultures should be modernised

Web Link: http://tokyo5.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/tribal-people/

Resource: French Nationalists gather support in council elections 2014
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/thunderclap-in-french-politics-as-national-front-looks-set-to-capture-half-a-dozen-town-halls-9212858.html

Resource:  Pakistani woman's stoning for marrying a man for love
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/video/?videoid=3592585117001

Resource:  How UK and Europe's faith populations are changing
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32722155

Courses of Action and Personal Response

Resource: Charitable organisation promoting rights of girls in developing countries
Web Link: http://becauseiamagirl.ca/

Resource: Protection for Maasai tribes people
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/tanzania-masai-eviction-uturn

Resource: Saudi Women allowed to vote for first time
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35061808

Topic Resources: Digital World

Local and Global Perspectives 

Resource: Thinking digitally, thinking critically

Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/future/tech4all/thinking-digitally-thinking-critically?utm_source=BBC-ROS&utm_medium=Amplify-Billboard-Traffic-Driver&utm_campaign=tech4all&utm_content=Article03_v1

Resource: Workers' activity tracked by bosses

Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220621-the-employee-surveillance-that-fuels-worker-distrust

Resource: The country where your face is tracked

Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220616-the-nation-where-your-faceprint-is-already-being-tracked

Resource: Gaming 'hero' retires with ill-health aged 23
Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52920786

Resource: How social media can help and hinder depression
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180209-how-social-media-changed-my-depression-for-better-and-worse

Resource:  Article on UK scheme for children to learn about coding
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/welcome-to-code-club-uk-programme-that-teaches-children-computer-coding-goes-global-8730806.html

Resource:  Article on growth of  code clubs in schools
Web Link:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/computer-code-courses-for-children-target-global-expansion-8658369.html

Resource:  Article on ICT taking over teacher led classes
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/computer-code-courses-for-children-target-global-expansion-8658369.html

Resource:  Article on use of smartphones for learning
Web Link:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/schools-head-hails-magic-of-learning-via-smartphone-6282186.html

Resource:  How Twitter can open up new style learning in Universities
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/mar/13/twitter-transform-learning-higher-education

Resource:  Teenagers being bullied on internet sites
Web Link:  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/more-than-a-million-british-youngsters-being-bullied-online-every-day-8852097.html 

Resource: How access to ICT can affect teenagers adversely
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/08/beeban-kidron-inreallife-interview-teenagers?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-2%20(New%20Review)%20Pickable%20with%20editable%20override:Pickable%20with%20editable%20override:Position1

Resource:  Film on India's economic divide created by ICT revolution
Web Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXEUvYd5cYk

Resource:  Film by IGCSE Global Perspectives students on the economic divide in China
Web Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCAAa4_8l_c

Scenarios



Courses of Action and Personal Response
Resource:  Film on how ICT revolution is closing Cambodia's economic divide
Web Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEV_GdbBmH4

Resource: School in NZ seeks help to close digital divide
Web Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/10541260/School-seeks-help-to-cross-digital-divide

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Dear students,

Welcome to the blogspot for the use of students studying Global Perspectives at Institut Montana Zugerberg.  You can use this web-site for links to useful articles, relating to your IGCSE coursework and other tasks.

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