Focus The Nation

On the Focus The Nation website I navigated my way to the forums and read a section on capping CO2 emissions and taxing them as well. I had never really thought to much about global warming, and in all honesty I was never able to see how it pertained to my subject matter. That has changed since reading the postings on the forum. I was able to see that global warming itself is an environmental issue, and doesn't truly apply to global warming, but what we choose to do about it can easily fall into the realm of social sciences. The three things that I learned from this forum are as follows:

• Solutions to global warming are being discussed from an economic stand point that primarily embraces taxes.
• Some people are advocating a tax on current gas prices.
• These proposed energy taxes would go to help low income families with their own energy costs.

Also While I was navigating this website I ran across an initiative to spread the green cause across the nation's schools. I thought that I could use this as a project for my class to go in conjunction with a unit on grass roots campaigning. The students would be given the task to set up a student organization that deals with issues like global warming, and then they would be required to attempt to network using various electronic means of keeping in touch, much like the methods that Clay Burrell uses in his classroom. The goal of this networking would be to set up other chapters in other schools. While doing all of this each student must keep in mind that they are to be doing it in a grass roots way.