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Osbaldiston, Richard; Schmitz, Hannah – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2011
The Energy Challenge is an environmental education program that is administered to ninth grade students in the public schools of a small Midwestern city in the United States. The program is sponsored and administered by the two local electric utilities, and it has been going on for seven years. To determine the effectiveness of the program, a…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Energy Conservation, Mail Surveys, Utilities
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Hughes, Kristen – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
Climate change is only one factor driving growing numbers of cities throughout the globe to reconsider conventional approaches to electricity generation and use. In the U.S., this momentum is incorporating a shift away from centralized, supply-side approaches reliant on fossil fuels and nuclear power, toward more distributed, flexible, and cleaner…
Descriptors: Energy, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness, Energy Conservation