TPS Blog

Don't pull the covers over your head just yet

Do you ever have one of those mornings where you think the world is crazy and you should just stay in bed? It happened to me this morning. My clock radio went off and the first two stories were about the loss of life in China's earthquake and the continuing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. Sometimes things seem overwhelming, but then I realized there are people who rush into these large scale disasters ready to help.

Reducing waste is good for water!

Guest Blogger: Aven Helgerson, Ottumwa HS, Iowa

The other day in science club we had a guest speaker.  It turned out to be our district's head of waste management.  He wanted us to help out with understanding recycling and to reuse instead of just throwing stuff away.

The importance of water

Guest Blogger: Valentina Vial, Villa Maria Academy, Santiago Chile

Everyone has the right to have water.  This can come from a water source like a river, a stream, a pond or a source of groundwater. This right, in places where water is plenty and the users aren’t many, is well respected and doesn’t cause conflicts. But if we pay attention, in places where water is scarce and it doesn’t reach all the inhabitants of that area, we can see that there are conflicts there. We can’t live without water, so if it’s scarce, people have to fight to get it, which makes it very valuable. In desert areas, defining water rights is a real problem. 

Climate Crews

The first three Climate Crews videos are in.  They are great!  Climate Crews is a contest where we challenged college students to organize a campus activity about climate change and make a video toolkit to show us what happened.  When the rest of the videos are in, you get to vote on what you thought was the best idea. Check out the first videos in for the contest.

Great Debaters in Los Angeles

We've had so many enthusiastic students participating in the Global Debates! It's fantastic to see such great efforts happening all over the world, and to see that students are making their voices heard.