Biking as an Alternative Mode of Transportation
"With this fact sheet, you can overcome common barriers keeping you from becoming your own mode of transportation, and bettering your life because of it."
Air/Climate
From air quality to climate change, find the information you need on this page.
Factsheets
Business Sustainability: moving from Thought to Action
"Sustainability is a trending word in today’s business culture. But what does being a sustainable business mean? Why would you want to be a sustainable business? And how do you do it? "
Trees and Climate Change
"This fact sheet describes the complex relationship between forests and climate change based on current research."
Utah Air Quality: PM 2.5
"Particulate matter two-point-five (PM2.5) is a tiny suspended particle of air pollution that can penetrate deeply into our lungs and potentially enter the bloodstream. The 2.5 unit means that the particles are smaller than 2.5 micrometers (a micrometer i...
Lesson Plans
- Air: You Can’t See It But Its There!
- Air and Balloons Lesson Plan
- Air Quality Index Toolkit for Teachers
- Is Air Something? Lesson Plan
- Properties of Air Lesson Plan
- NASA: Climate Change in my Backyard
- NASA: Climate Kids Carbon Offset Game
- Our Climate, Our Future
Videos & Documentaries
Jeff Adams from Terrasophia LLC shows strategies for permaculture and climate resiliency on both a small and large scale.
Climate change scientists Rob Gillies and Rob Davies speak on humanity's effect on the climate and how we can fix it.
Sasha Reed, research ecologist, shows a climate manipulation experiment studying the effects of increased temperature and altered precipitation near Castle Valley, UT.
Jeremy Lynch gives a tour of the permaculture garden on the USU Moab Campus.
Utah Insight meets with organizers of the Utah High School Clean Air Poster Contest, which works to keep students thinking about a cleaner environment.
Trained as a physicist, Dr. Davies’ work focuses on complexity, global change, human vibrancy, and critical science communication. Rob has delivered hundreds of public lectures ― to policymakers, business leaders, civic organizations and faith communities ― and his “performance science” theatrical collaboration The Crossroads Project | Rising Tide, co-created with the Fry Street Quartet, has been performed across the U.S. and in three countries. He has served as a scientific liaison for NASA; as a project scientist with Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory; and an officer and meteorologist in the United States Air Force. Dr. Davies has served on the faculty of three universities, is a past Associate of the Utah Climate Center, and is currently Associate Professor of Professional Practice with Utah State University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Dep’t of Physics, USU’s Ecology Center, and the Caine College of the Arts.
Documentaries
- A Sacred Trust: Threatened National Parks and Native Lands
- Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification
- Carbon Nation
- Chasing Ice
- Climate Change: Lines of Evidence
- The Climate Question: Degrees of Change
- Conservation Generation: National Young Farmers Coalition
- How to Let go of the World: And Love All the things Climate Can’t Change
- NASA Carbon Crisis
- Post Carbon Futures
Trainings
- Extension Climate Change Science Essential online professional developmental training delving into the scientific underpinnings of Earth's complex climate.
More Resources
Fact Sheets
Air Quality and Agriculture
"Air pollution comes from many sources including power plants, factories, cars, trucks, volcanoes, and windblown dust. Air pollutants are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of our national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS)....
An Examination of the Implementation of Environmentally Sustainable Practices In the Utah Ski Industry: A Qualitative Study
"This qualitative research study was designed to examine the current level of implementation of environmentally sustainable practices at Utah’s ski resort areas and also ascertain future plans."
Biking as an Alternative Mode of Transportation
"With this fact sheet, you can overcome common barriers keeping you from becoming your own mode of transportation, and bettering your life because of it."
Business Sustainability: moving from Thought to Action
"Sustainability is a trending word in today’s business culture. But what does being a sustainable business mean? Why would you want to be a sustainable business? And how do you do it? "
How Will Climate Change Affect Freshwater Fishing?
"This fact sheet reviews how climate change can affect freshwater fishing in the United States. Climate change can affect the availability and diversity of target species, the environmental and aesthetic quality of fishing sites, as well as the policies u...
How Will Climate Change Affect Winter Recreation?
"This fact sheet reviews recent research examining how winter-based outdoor recreation along the North Shore of Lake Superior will be affected by climate change."
The Impact of Climate Change on Inland Recreational Fishing
"This fact sheet reviews the state of scientific knowledge regarding how climate change can impact inland recreational fishing."
Trees and Climate Change
"This fact sheet describes the complex relationship between forests and climate change based on current research."
Utah Air Quality: PM 2.5
"Particulate matter two-point-five (PM2.5) is a tiny suspended particle of air pollution that can penetrate deeply into our lungs and potentially enter the bloodstream. The 2.5 unit means that the particles are smaller than 2.5 micrometers (a micrometer i...
Journal Articles & Reports
A Primer in Community-Based Social Marketing
"Do you want to produce specific behavioral changes within your community?"
Making it Count: Increasing the Impact of Climate Change and Food Security Education Programmes
"Human beings are altering their environment in unprecedented ways. The Earth has warmed by 1 °C in the last 100 years."
Rural Connections: Drought and Wildfire in the West
"IN THIS ISSUE: Climate Science in the Rural West; Rural Community Preparation for Climate Change; Food Security Adaptation Planning; State Fiscal Implications of Climate Change Legislation; Rangeland Carbon Sequestration; Anaerobic Digestion in the Pacif...
Rural Connections: Drought and Wildfire in the West
"IN THIS ISSUE: The Energy Future of Rural America; Ten-Year Energy Vision-Western Governors' Association Energy Initiative; Energy in a Global Economy; The Sociology of Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Renewable Energy: Implications for Rural Development and Ru...
USGS: Effects of Climate Change and Land Use on Water Resources in the Upper Colorado River Basin
"This fact sheet summarizes selected major research efforts to evaluate the effects of climate and landscape change on water availability and water quality in the Upper Colorado River Basin and describes some of the science needed to support future manage...
United Nations Adoption of the 2016 Paris Climate Change Agreement: Proposal by the President
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development"
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