Monday 30 January 2012

Tuesday 24 January 2012

Coastal erosion landforms



Study the diagram of arch and stack formation on p151. Find a photgraph of these formations on the internet and copy the the photograph onto a MS Word document. Use the 'Insert - Shape - Callout' function to label the photograph describing and explaining how it is formed.



Print off your labelled picture and draw a diagram of the landforms underneath.

Monday 23 January 2012

Unit 3 Section B - worksheet 4 - Ecological footprint senarios




Use these links to help you with worksheet 4 on the Ecological footprint and three sustainable technologies











Whole articles from 'views':


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Thursday 19 January 2012

Scandinavia - Kyoto Protocol







Have a look at these two graphs. Plenty to discuss here.

Norway was one of a number of countries who were allowed to increase their emissions as part of the Kyoto Protocol (the others included Sweden, Iceland and Australia). Although this decision was largely political (as they were dragging their feet over signing), Norway also made the point that as they already produce 42% of their energy from HEP they would find it very hard to cut emissions further - particularly as they were planning three new gas-fired power stations over the next few years. Detail about why their emissions have continued to rise can be found here.



Sweden was also allowed to increase emissions by 4%. This was due to their plans to decomission their nuclear reactors and hence would be relying more heavily on fossil-fuels. However, their overall emissions have fallen dramatically due to huge reduction in coal and oil use and an increase in biomass / biogas (Figure 13). There is plans for a huge incresase in wind power.






Wednesday 18 January 2012

Africa to EU migration

Thousands of Africans try to make the journey to Europe each year. The BBC News website gives information about the routes they travel, the cause of this movement and some of its impacts as well as personal stories.

Tuesday 17 January 2012

IV Form renewable energy task

Use the following to help you with your research task

An excellent site which explains clearly each type of source


Wikipedia entry for renewable energy

Wind power in the 'How Stuff Works' website. Other energy sources also on the site

BBC Energy in the UK mini-site - links to lots of relevant stories

Energy on BBC Bitesize





Thursday 12 January 2012

Curitiba - sustainable transport system






Use the following links to complete the work on Curitiba.



Video

Video (turn on subtitles to understand)

Monday 9 January 2012

BedZed - eco village



Watch these two video clips about BedZed, an eco-village in south London.




Wikipedia entry for further research

How can urban living be sustainable?



Use these links to help you comlpete the worksheet on sustainable urban living:



Examples of sustainable cities


Edinburgh greenbelt policy


Tesco reducing packaging on its products