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