Global Warming Links
Here is a web page that has a variety of information about global warming, including a link to 'An Inconvenient Truth's home page.
http://www.healthpolitics.org/archives.asp?previous=latest_on_globalwarming&spg=PPC&sky=hgygooglobal+warmingFor our debate you should use the interviews found on this PBS webpage. These people are speaking on both sides of the issue.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/ Select one article and focus on the strongest arguments for your side.
More project ideas
added Mon. pm 3/5more thoughts from Mr. VanderzeePeace Centers
Free Clinics
Retirement Homes
Rape/Abuse Crisis Centers
Animal Shelters
Public Transportation
added Mon. am 3/5-Cocoon House in Everett
-Habitat for Humanity (the org. that Jimmy Carter has been so active with which builds home with donated labor)
-Pilchuck Audubon (centered in Everett, which would allow students to study or work on habitat preservation and protection, growth management, doing bird counts, old growth forest preservation)
-Contacting the Snohomish County Democratic Party or Republican Party headquarters. You would do work with and/or for a candidate at any level or for any office.
-In the same tone, you could contact either Sen. Murray or Cantwell’s office, or either Rep. Rick Larson or Jay Inslee to do volunteer work for them.
-Come up with a cause relating to the homeless on the streets, or at a tent city, or in more traditional shelters, or even those who are at battered women’s shelters. Decide what you want to do or seek to provide (clothing, food, toys, etc.) You could then contact groups like Goodwill, Saint Vincent de Paul, Salvation Army, Everett Gospel Mission, etc. and see if they would partner with you in achieving your goal.
-Catholic Relief Services might also be able to use students to head up or assist with any number of community needs. I know they provide people to come in and clean homes of the elderly and/or ill, or do grocery shopping, or take them to the doctor or dentist.
-Something to spruce up a local park and then contact either the Snoh. Co. Park Dept. in Everett or the City of Lynnwood’s Park Dept. to learn what and how you could go about benefiting the community. This same basic approach could be used for merely a weekend clean-up of a park, playground, or beach.
-Initiate a tutoring, reading buddy, or whatever program with a local elementary school. This could just for you, or to organize a cadre of students who would do at a certain time once a week for perhaps the rest of the school year to work with students on reading or perhaps math. You would initiate this through the principal of a particular school.
-There exists in the City of Lynnwood such service clubs as Lions, Rotary, and Kiwanis. Lions focuses above all on getting hearing aids and eye glasses or surgery for those who need them but cannot afford things on their own. Each club has a specific area of concentration. For the Lions, you could lead a collection of used eye glasses.
-Fremont Abbey is a Seattle community arts project that has benefit concerts, art shows, etc. They are always in need of volunteers, and I’ve got contacts there if you're interested.
-International relief and development organizations have some local chapters. World Vision, Oxfam, etc.
-Northwest harvest is a great organization that collects food for food banks and gets it to needy people in our own communities. Contact them about the work they do and possibly volunteering.
-The YMCA website is a good place to look for many different ways to get involved, especially in working with kids. They have health programs, drug treatment, community development, and even international relief. Boys and Gilrs clubs also have some good resources.
