Journal: Hometown Fossil Fuels
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a fun site where you can enter your zip code and see the sources used to provide electricity in your area.
- Take a look at the site and find out if your electricity comes mainly from coal and other fossil fuels, or renewable sources like wind or hydro power. If you have a copy of your electric bills, you can even figure out how much your home contributes to annual emissions.
- After you go through the site, create a journal entry to describe your findings.
- Describe how the energy sources and emissions in your area compare to national averages.
- Discuss ways that you can reduce your household emissions of pollutants like carbon dioxide and sulfur. How can you make a difference?
Please write your journal entry in the Journal template. You will be prompted at the end of this unit to turn in all of your journal entries.
