United States	Office of Air and Radiation	EPA 430-K-09-005

Environmental Protection	(6207J)	May 2009

Agency

SERA

Student Activity #2

What You and Your Community Can
Do to Reduce Carbon Dioxide

Purpose:

Time required:
Equipment:

This activity will allow you to think about what you can do
to help reduce the release of carbon dioxide into the air and
perhaps limit future climate change.

40 minutes

•	Pencils and paper

•	Materials provided in this packet, including responses to
Activity # 1 and Global Warming Wheel Card

1.	Find three other students with whom you would like to work. You will need
pencils and paper, and you might want to have these things with you:

A.	Your Global Warming Wheel Card

B.	The "Frequently Asked Questions About Global Warming and Climate
Change: Back to Basics" brochure

C.	Your answers from Activity #1

2.	Take the next 20 minutes to discuss the following:

A. The four of you work for your town's Department of Environmental

Protection. You have learned a great deal about climate change in the past
several months, and you are becoming concerned about the possible effects
it will have on your local community if it continues to get worse. You are
now aware of some of the causes and effects of climate change, and you
would like to do everything you can to make sure that your community
does not contribute more carbon dioxide than is absolutely necessaiy.
However, you also realize that people in your community enjoy the way
their lives are now, and you do not want to make too many changes that
will upset their lives. Your department has been asked to come up with
some new programs for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide generated
by your community. What, three programs would you propose to encourage
your community's citizens, businesses, and institutions (such as schools) to
change their behavior so they produce less carbon dioxide?

B. What would your community probably like about these programs?

C. What would your community probably NOT like about these programs?

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