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• Climate change
• Earth Day and Earth Day projects
• Electronic waste
• Facts about waste
• Gardening and native plants
• Grants and awards
• Household hazardous product education
• Kids pages
• Recycling information
• Waste prevention

Climate change

Climate Change and Our Planet from NOAA

http://www.education.noaa.gov/tclimate.html (external)

Climate Classroom from National Wildlife Federation

http://online.nwf.org/site/PageNavigator/ClimateClassroom/cc_homepage/ (external)

Community Learning Network Teacher Resource List

http://www.cln.org/themes/global_warming.html (external)

King County Executive Sims Global Warming Initiative

http://www.metrokc.gov/globalwarming/default.aspx

US EPA Climate Change

http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html (external)

WA Department of Ecology Climate Change

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/index.htm (external)

Earth Day and Earth Day projects

Earth Day Network

http://www.earthday.net/ (external)

Grocery Bag Project

http://www.earthdaybags.org/ (external)

Electronic waste

King County Take It Back Network

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/takeitback/index.asp

Facts about waste

Cedar Hills Landfill

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/about/landfills.asp

Waste Calculator

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/ecoconsumer/calculator.asp

Worldwatch Institute Good Stuff Guide

http://www.worldwatch.org/taxonomy/term/44 (external)

Gardening and native plants

King County Northwest Native Plant Guide

http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/pi/go-native/index.aspx

National Garden Association Kids Gardening Resources

http://www.kidsgardening.com/ (external)

Natural Yard Care

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/naturalyardcare/index.asp

Yard Talk

http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/pi/yardtalk/
also on King County Television (KCTV)

Grants and awards

KC Grant Exchange

http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/pi/grants.htm

Staples Recycles for Education

http://www.staplesrecyclefored.com/ (external)

Starbucks Environmental Literacy Program/Grants

http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/grantinfo.asp (external)

Washington Sustainable Schools Awards

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/terryhusseman.html (external)

Household hazardous product education

Health Effects of Common Chemicals

http://www.asmalldoseof.org/ (external)

Household Products Health and Safety Database

http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/ (external)

Kids Health and the Environment

http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/default.asp (external)

Local Hazardous Waste Management Program School Resources

http://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/schoolyouth/index.cfm (external)

Kids pages

Cool School Challenge

http://coolschoolchallenge.org/ (external)
Educational program provides information and motivation and outlines specific steps that students and teachers can apply to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions schoolwide. Provided courtesy of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.

Environmental Resources for Teachers and Students

http://dnr.metrokc.gov/topics/learning/LRNtop.htm

King County Groundwater Protection Program/The Groundwater Story

http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/wq/groundwater-animation.htm

Kids for Puget Sound

http://pugetsound.org/index/kids (external)

Natural Resources Kids Page

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnr/kidsweb/

US EPA Kids Pages

http://www.epa.gov/kids/ (external)

WA Dept of Ecology Kids Page

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/kidspage/ (external)

Recycling information

What Do I Do With…?

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/wdidw/

King County Recycling Information

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/garbage-recycling/index.asp

Washington State Recycling Association

http://www.wsra.net/ (external)

Waste prevention

New American Dream

http://www.newdream.org/index.php (external)

On-line Materials Exchange

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/exchange/index.asp

Waste-free Lunches

http://www.wastefreelunches.org/ (external)

Waste Free Holidays

http://www.wastefreeholidays.com/

Waste Prevention Tips

http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/wasteprevention/index.asp

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