• Saving our planet

• Our environmental footprint - renewable energy

• Quotations about the environment
• Guardian: 50 people who could save the planet
• stopglobalwarming.org
• Live Earth

• Spurt: “Let’s not worry about climate change!“

• Spurt: “Flying - your patriotic duty“ - airports in the UK
• Guardian: Brown approves airport expansion
• Skills: style - tone - register
• Skills: describing graphic elements

• The Scotsman: Climate change takes its toll on Scotland

• Global warming - SEPA
• Adaption - biodiversity - extinction
• Skills: credibility - objectivity (media, science)

• > > Eco-friends - Al Gore

• Edmonton Journal: Global warming profits
• Der Yorcker: Eine unbequeme Wahrheit (S. 17)
• > > > Skills: Mediation

• T. C. Boyle: “A friend of the earth“ (2000)

• > > > Reviews on “A friend of the earth“
• > > > Friends of the earth
• WWF - Greenpeace - BUND - NABU
• > > > Skills: Analyzing short films
• Skills: sarcasm - simile - exaggeration

• Severn Suzuki speaks in Rio

• > > > > Severn Suzuki’s speech - Earth Summit 1992

• Spot on language

• Rhetorical devices: convincing people

> > An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Al Gore and the envirnment

climatecrisis.net

NY Times: movie review

Guardian: film reviews

Futurama: “Crimes of the Hot“ (2002)

A short clip was later used in “An Inconvenient Truth“ to humorously explain global warming. “None like it hot“

The Simpsons Movie (2007)

> > UN on climate change

BBC: Kyoto Protocol

Guardian: Copenhagen Summit 2009

Mexico Summit 2010

• Deepwater Horizon oil spill

• BBC: oil spill in maps + graphics

• BBC: timeline BP oil spill

• Guardian: BP oil spill

• bp.com