Emissions
What gas are cows famous for emitting?
What is Methane?
Simply installing this type of energy efficient light bulb throughout your home can save you hundreds of dollars each year.
What is LED?
PYCA is an acronym for what?
What is Pittsburgh Youth for Climate Action?
Name two big climate advocacy groups in Pittsburgh.
What is Communitopia, GASP, Sunrise, Phipps, etc.?
The Supreme Court is this branch of government.
What is the Judiciary Branch?
A natural process in which heat from the sun is trapped by the Earth’s atmosphere near the Earth’s surface.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
What is the purpose of the number on the bottom of the plastic?
What is Differentiating Plastic Types?
Is a clean plastic yogurt container recyclable in Pittsburgh?
What is Not Recyclable?
With her selection in 2019, this then 16-year-old Swedish climate activist became the youngest individual to ever be named TIME’s Person of the Year.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
In 2019, youth were instrumental in getting this school district to pass a climate resolution, the first in Pennsylvania.
What is The Woodland Hills School District?
What type of meat has the highest carbon footprint?
What is Beef?
What tool do you use to pull/form a sheet of paper pulp when recycling your own paper?
What is A Mould and Deckle?
What is the largest Pittsburgh City Park?
What is Frick Park?
Millions of people live within one meter of sea level, and much of the world’s population is concentrated in coastal cities. In the United States, these two states would experience the greatest impacts of a one meter rise in sea level (in terms of housing units impacted).
What is Florida and Hawaii?
Nearly 200 countries are part of this international treaty, which aims to keep global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century.
What is the Paris Agreement?
What is one reason we care about school bus electrification?
What is: Reducing Climate Emissions, Improving Air Quality, Lower Life-Time Cost
What is the purpose of Eco bricks?
What is Condensing and Reusing Plastic?
Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this urban watershed gained fame for its successful restoration efforts after decades of neglect and industrial pollution. What is the name of this watershed?
What is Nine Mile Run Watershed?
The outcome of this type of climate change solution is a physical prototype or plan.
What is an engineering solution?
This type of climate change solution is focused on policy changes, cultural changes, and / or behavior changes.
What are Advocacy Solutions?
Unlike pollution from specific, identifiable sources like factories or sewage treatment plants, this type of pollution originates from diffuse sources, like runoff from agricultural fields, urban areas, and construction sites.
What is Nonpoint Source Pollution?
What material are the planting pots at the Phipps YCAC table made from?
What is Coconut Husk?
This native Pennsylvania tree, which is at risk from the changing climate, provides a delicious topping for pancakes and waffles.
What is Sugar Maple? (acer saccharum)
In a landmark climate change trial, a judge in this state sided with young activists finding that young people have a constitutional right to a healthful environment and that the state must consider climate damage with approving projects (August 2023).
What is Montana?
What was the first country to pass a law against greenwashing?
What is France? (2021)