Nuclear Power
- Advantages and disadvantages
- What happened in Japan and are other nuclear power plants
vulnerable?
- How can nuclear accidents be prevented?
- What are the alternatives to nuclear power?
Ways to help with the Gulf oil spill
- Explain what happened, and how it might be prevented in future
- Methods of cleaning up oil
- Effects of oil spills on the environment
- Alternatives to oil
Using technology to help people who lost jobs
Recycling
- Used
computer equipment, cell phones, batteries, other electronic equipment
- Plastic
bags, non-biodegradeable waste
- Plant
material, organic material
- Other
Environment
- How to save energy,
individuals, at home
- Use of green cleaning
chemicals, disposal of chemical waste
- Endangered species, animals
and plants
- Global warming
Nutrition
- Eating disorders – obesity,
eating disorders
Health
- Effects of drugs, addiction
- Bird flu
- Malaria
- Cancer
- Heart disease, e.g., high
blood pressure, strokes, heart attack
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Other diseases of the elderly,
e.g., osteoporosis, arthritis
- Mental health
- the new nutritional guidelines
Renewable/Alternative
Energy
- Solar energy, e.g. solar
cells, CSP (concentrating solar power)
- Fuel cells
- Hydrogen
- Ethanol
- Wind
- Geothermal
- Tidal
- Hybrid, electric cars
- Other