Community Organizing and Creating Change
Climate Change
Worcester Facts
100

What is the goal of community organizing?

What is to address issues and their roots, propose long-term solutions, and hold decision-makers responsible?

100

What is one simple action people can take at home to reduce the amount of trash that ends up in landfills?

What is recycling materials like paper, plastic, and glass?

100

How many districts are there in Worcester?

What is five districts?

200

How do you form a coalition?

What is the reach out to members of your community facing similar issues/ shared goals? (mailing letter, going door to door..)

200

What is the main contributor to global warming?

What are human-driven greenhouse gases?

200

What famous psychologist and neurologist has a statue at Clark University?

Who is Sigmund Freud?

300

What is an ordinance?

What is a aw executed by towns and cities, not usually the federal government?


300

What are the three ‘R’s?

What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?

300

Who is the mascot of Polar Beverages?

Who is Orson the Polar Bear?

400

What are the steps to creating change?

What is 1) recognize the issue, 2) researching, 3) learn system, 4)community organizing, 5) submitting a petition, and 6) staying engaged (repeating)?

400

What gas do livestock like cows produce?

What is CH4 (Methane)?

400

What American abolitionist and women's rights activist is from Worcester and has a school named after her?

Who is Abby Kelly Foster?

500

What is it called when people come together?

What is Collective Power?

500

What country produces the most greenhouse gas emissions?

What is China? (27% of global emissions) 

500

What are the seven hills of Worcester?

What are Airport Hill, Bancroft Hill, Belmont Hill, Grafton Hill, Green Hill, Pakachoag Hill, and Vernon Hill?