Lesson 1
Doing this simple action when you leave an empty room is the easiest way to prevent energy waste.
Turning off the lights
This is the biggest polluter in Santa Barbara.
Organic waste gets recycled by the city into this rich combination to add to the soil in farms or gardens.
Compost
The scientific word for nature trapping this greenhouse gas out of the air.
Carbon Sequestration
The target year for Santa Barbara to completely stop using dirty energy.
2035
We tried to find this spooky-sounding type of standby power loss in the classroom during our first lesson.
Vampire energy
What greenhouse gas do vehicles release into the atmosphere?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
An apple core or food scraps belong in this color bin.
Yellow bin or Food Scraps/Compost, will also take the Waste (grey) bin if they specify in Santa Barbara!
Name one benefit to having more trees in our city.
- Shade
- Cleaner air
- Aesethic/beauty
The local university down the road who is inventing new technologies. HINT: It's where Miss Bella goes!
UC Santa Barbara
The sun and the wind are examples of this clean type of power.
Renewable energy
Name one way to get somewhere that reduces individual emissions.
Biking, walking, riding a scooter, taking a city bus
Aluminum soda cans and clean bottles belong in this color bin.
Blue (Recycling)
This is the green process where plants take in Carbon Dioxide and sunlight and turn it into energy for thmesleves and oxygen for us.
Photosynthesis
This whole unit is so you can all know how to help Santa Barbara meet the big goals of this specific city plan.
Climate Action Plan or CAP
This type of lighting or bulb is much more efficient than old ones and what our city is trying to add to buildings and other infrastructure.
LED Lighting or bulbs
Sharing a ride to school or sports with friends is known as this.
Carpooling
What bin does an empty pizza box go in?
Food Scraps or Yellow bin (or Waste/Grey bin here in Santa Barbara)
The part of the plant underground where captured carbon gets securely stored so it cannot escape back into the atmosphere.
Roots
Because our climate action plan is always being updated, it is called this type of document.
Living Document
When reading the meters we used in our first lesson, we were looking for the number of these. Name the word for the unit of measurement energy is measured in?
WATTS or Wattage or if they can say it starts with W
Name one thing the city is doing in the field of transportation to reduce our emissions.
- Electrifying city buses
- Adding bike lanes and walking lanes
- Adding more chargers for hybrids/EVs
- Electrifying their own city fleet (construction vehicles, business vehicles, etc.)
What greenhouse gas is released from organic waste in landfills?
Methane
Scientists use this term for carbon that gets trapped by ocean plants, such as our giant kelp forests.
Blue Carbon
This phrase describes jobs that directly help protect the planet, such as a solar engineer or an ocean scientist.
"Green careers" or "Green jobs"