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A water utility mission to mitigate climate change
Area: Tuscany
Description: Is a presentation of the initiatives of a water utility to mitigate climate change.
Air pollution and the ways to measure and monitor it
Area: Milan, Lombardia
Description: The slides are focussed on air pollution and the ways to measure and monitor it. In the final slides links to experiments and further knowledge (videos) are provided. The slides can be useful particularly in the investigation step.
An integrated passenger and route management system
Area: Chaidari, Athens
Description: The presentation offers an overview of an integrated passenger and route management system, piloted in the Municipality of Chaidari (Greece) through passenger and driver applications. The passenger nobile application in particular offers real time information on bus routes as well as advice on alternative routes. The application was available in Greek only. Unfortunately the application version is not compatible with the updated Android systems.
Article on the Natural Biological System (NBS)
Description: Article on the Natural Biological System (NBS) as a nature-based technology for sewage and waste stream treatment and management, rehabilitating affected water bodies, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and rebalancing eco-systems.
Climate change - USA Environmental Protection Agency
Description: This webpage by the USA Environmental Protection Agency offers a wide range of learning resources, neatly categorised in specific topics in relation to climate change, like the foundational concepts of climate change, the causes of climate change, impacts, indicators and risk analysis. The organisation of learning resources by topic facilitates the users' access to information on specific aspects of climate change. Resources to learning about how the earth's climate is changing and why, and how this is affecting our life.
Climate change effects
Description: Activities to help students understand climate change effects on their immediate environment.
Climate protection and a carbon-free future
Area: Florence
Description: The presentation outlines recent initiatives of the Municipality of Florence towards climate protection and a carbon-free future, focusing on the city's actions in the field of sustainable urban mobility. Although the presentation offers merely an overview linked to the city of Florence in specific, the contents can be used as a case study example on approaching sustainable mobility. An example of a net zero city, how to transform your city to smart, green and inclusive.
Domestic energy saving
Description: It is a brief compendium on domestic energy saving, and how it can influence the containment of greenhouse gas emissions.
Extreme phenomena and global warming
Area: Florence
Description: It is an article on extreme phenomena linked to global warming, with focus on the Mediterranean Sea area,
Food-related issues at schools
Description: The goal of this manual is to support teachers in primary and secondary schools in including global education methods and food-related issues in their daily lesson planning. The manual is inspired by the experiences and ideas of their colleagues in fourteen countries https://eathink2015.org/en/
From roks to tap water
Area: Lecco, Lombardia
Description: Slides in itlalian, a students research on tap water.
Good practices for saving water
Description: Slides in itlalian, good practices for saving wate.
