Energy+and+Atmosphere

===Energy and Atmosphere... **Energy is Everything **===

**Building Energy Systems**
 * Energy performance
 * [[image:greenschoolsforteachers/energy.jpg align="right"]] Optimize energy performance (new buildings vs. existing buildings)
 * Green power
 * Learn about current uses of energy production methods
 * Global warming and climate change
 * How green buildings can significantly reduce the negative impact on greenhouse gas emissions
 * Energy audits
 * Energy conservation
 * Energy policy

**Raise the Roof: Action Plan for Getting a Green Roof**  Most roofs absorb lots of the sun’s energy and make buildings even hotter than the actual air temperature outside. A green roof is a way to reduce such effects. Such a roof is one that is covered with vegetation, providing insulation, habitat, rainwater drainage, and aesthetic appeal.

[] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Portfolio Manager is an interactive energy management tool that allows you to track and assess energy and water consumption across your entire portfolio of buildings in a secure online environment. Whether you own, manage, or hold properties for investment, Portfolio Manager can help you set investment priorities, identify under-performing buildings, verify efficiency improvements, and receive EPA recognition for superior energy performance.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">EPA Energy Portfolio Manager **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Commercial Building Initiative** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|Energy Modeling Software] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Information from energy simulation software is critical in the design of energy-efficient commercial buildings. The tools listed on this page are the product of Commercial Building Initiative (CBI) research and are used in modeling current CBI projects. Modeling helps architects and building designers quickly identify the most cost-effective and energy-saving measures.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_energy_strategy <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Increasing energy demand, global climate change, and constrained energy supplies are likely to impact how energy affects your business in the future. Is your company prepared for the energy challenges that lie ahead? The ground-breaking report, Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead, reveals what twenty leading U.S. companies recommend businesses should do now to prepare for the risks and opportunities of our energy future.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Energy Strategy for the Future **


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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Unit**: **"Going Green Begins With Me"** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 25px;">This unit integrates science, math, and art focusing on the LEED units of Materials and Resources and Energy and Atmosphere. Students will use problem based learning strategies to focus on three different scenarios of maintaing ecosystems for monarch butterflies, indigenous birds, and vegetable plants. Another scenario will enable students to construct solar power cars and find other methods of alternative energy. Students will also use recycables to construct bird feeders and mosaic art scenes as a reflection of their dedication, appreciation, and ownership of going green to help save their environment.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**The Impact of Transportation** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">PGCP School District buses most of their students. It is located near DuPont Chemical Plant, Mannington Mills, Praxair and other Industrial plants. With the chemicals produced in the environment from these plants, reducing bussing would help to improve air quality, reduce emissions, and improve the health of the students and staff. Penns Grove is a small town with sidewalks and crossing guards. However, few ride bikes to school.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lighting <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">New Jersey Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Energy Star for Schools [|www.energystar.gov]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Energy Star guidelines <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Energy star for schools[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">eQUEST the QUick Energy Simulation Tool Energy Modeling Software <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">NASA's Classroom of the Future - Power and Energy Simulations <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|http://198.185.178.75/iss/electricity/][|default.xml]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> []

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The NEED Project

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NESEA K-12 curricular units and lessons are found at EnergyTeachers.org  and available for free download

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> [|Energy Inventory Student Pages]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Energy Smart Resource Guide

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Activity Book

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