Sustainability Committee

Resources for Working Sustainably

• Video conferencing tips
• AAS Meetings Task Force Report — Includes several sustainability recommendations 

Help with Teaching Climate Change and Sustainability

See below for online resources, books, PowerPoint slides, hands-on-activities, labs, and homework assignments. Read, download, edit, plug into your Astronomy 101 course, and teach climate change!

Online Resources

• The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
• "What We Know" — Climate change page from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Climate Science Toolkit — from the American Chemical Society
• RealClimate — Climate science from climate scientists
• Climate Change: A Summary of the Science — from the Royal Society
• Skeptical Science — Responses to skepticism, from the literature
• Climate Communication
• George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication
• The Psychology of Climate Change Communication
• Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
• National Center for Science Education
• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) — Resources for teaching, details for your school joining this organization

Books

• The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming, by Howard Friel (Yale University Press, 2010)
• The Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, 2010
• Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, by David MacKay
• This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein (Simon and Schuster, 2014)
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert (Bloomsbury, 2007)

PowerPoint Slides

• How Astronomers Can Better Communicate About Climate Change — Travis Rector
• What Do Astronomers Know About Climate Change? — University of Texas Department of Astronomy Climate Slides
• Smith College Astronomy 101 Climate Slides
• Balick's 101 Climate Slides

Hands-on-Activities, Labs, and Homework Assignments

• Monash University Simple Climate Model — Interactive climate modeling
• Examining the Modern CO2 Record — Carleton College lab that makes use of Excel
• PHET Activity — U of Colorado lab that can be downloaded for use as a lab or a demo
• Global Warming — Smith College homework assignment