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Use these environmental resources to discover more about the issues featured in the field activities.
Counting Commuters
Let's Ride Evaluation Tools
http://www.commutesolutions.com/letsride/home.html
Offers tips for creating successful commuting solutions.
Your Family's Cars
Best and Worst Mileage Cars
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/bestworst_mileage/?cnn=yes
Learn which cars earn top (and bottom) honors for gas mileage.
Gas Mileage Tips
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/drive.shtml
Find tips to help reduce your gas mileage.
Seeing the Air You Breathe
US Air Quality Grade Book
http://creativemethods.com/airquality/index.htm
Provides emission grade sheets that compare U.S.
counties for 11 EPA air pollutant emissions and a map of U.S. counties that have been graded on their air quality.
Air Quality Index for Kids
Defines the Air Quality Index
http://www.epa.gov/airnow/aqikids/
Discusses what makes air dirty and which people are most at risk for getting sick from air pollution.
EPA Guide to Recyclcing
Explains and Explores Why We Need to Recycle
http://www.epa.gov/teachers/curric-waste.htm
Reducing and reusing waste, recycling, burning trash for energy recovery, and landfilling are all parts of the solution.
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