Mathematics Awareness Month - April 2013
Mathematics of Sustainability

Educational and Related Resources

Curriculum Material

• Math Climate Research Network (MCRN) educational page
• Math of Planet Earth (MPE 2013)
• Pfaff’s Sustainability Page for Math
• Sustainability Math
•  Ordinary Differential Equations in Real World Situations by Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr College
• Chemistry of Global Climate Change and the Carbon Footprint of Bottled Water, pdf slides by Laura Foster Voss, The Johns Hopkins University; slides with notes
• Introduction to Global Energy Balance Models of Climate, pdf slides by Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College; slides with notes
• Alliance to Save Energy:  K – 12 Lesson Plans
• EPA Teacher Resources:  K-12 Energy Lesson Plans
• Green Education Foundation:  Green Energy Challenge PreK-2 Lessons and Challenge
• Green Schools Initiative:  Teach Green:  Energy Audits for Lower Grades and Links to Energy Saving Curricula
• National Environmental Education Week: Energy Curricula – Grades K-4
• Pacific Gas and Electric Energenius Educational Series Pre-K -6 - For Californians: Lesson Plans, For All Teachers:  On-Line Educator Energy Resource Guide
• US Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy/ Energy Education and Workforce Development – K-12 Lesson Plans and Activities

K- 16 Links

• Alliance to Save Energy’s PowerSave Schools Program
• National Energy Education Development Project (NEED)
• U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Program
• U.S. Green Building Council Center for Green Schools
• BITES (Building, Industry, Transportation and Electricity Scenarios) tool is an interactive framework that lets users explore the energy and carbon implications of altering the current U.S. energy profile.
• Earth: The Operators’ Manual (“ETOM” for short) is a rigorously researched, beautifully filmed and ultimately uplifting antidote to the widespread “doom and gloom” approach to climate change.
• The Energy 101 videos from the U.S. Department of Energy.  http://energy.gov/videos/  
• Presidents Environmental Youth Award
• Green Revolution has 10 videos on a wide range of energy topics.
• National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) Sustainable Energy Award
• The DuPont Challenge, North America’s premier science essay competition.
• The Green Cup Challenge™
• The NEED (National Energy Education Development) Project’s Youth Awards for Energy Achievement
• The Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• The Spark! Lab Invent It Challenge
• The Switch Energy Project is a film, web and education program to build energy awareness and efficiency.
• The Ten80 Student Racing Challenge: NASCAR STEM initiative is a project-based learning system and optional competition league created by educators, engineers and industry partners over the last decade.
• THINK! ENERGY is an initiative from National Energy Foundation that invites all people to practice three main principles: Think! Talk! Take Action!
• The Thacher Environmental Research Contest
• Edutopia

Data Resources

• Earth Policy Institute
• Energy Information Agency – Country Profiles
• National Snow and Ice Data Center
• World Top Incomes Database

Scientific Reports

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Joint Sciences Academies Report on Energy Sustainability and Security
• Mathematical and Statistical Challenges for Sustainability, edited by Margaret B. Cozzens and Fred S. Roberts
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• National Academies – Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
• Union of Concerned Scientists - Climate Choices

Games

• Kids Saving Energy
• Energy Hog

Miscellaneous

• 2009 Math Awareness Month (Mathematics and Climate) Resources
• The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
• EPA Portfolio Manager System
• David J.C. MacKay. Sustainable Energy – without the hot air