BP Plays Significant Role In CLIMATE CHANGE Education In Public Schools

[kpete]

Now, thanks to the folks at the Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch, we are learning even more about BP.

It appears that the global oil, gas and chemical company is playing a significant role in what is being taught about climate change in the public schools of America.

Apparently, BP has close links to the Alliance for Climate Education, Inc. (ACE) (http://www.acespace.org/), an Oakland, California-based group that is the “nation's largest provider of climate change education in public schools.” According to a new PR Watch report (http://www.prwatch.org/ACE+BP_Report) ACE, founded in July of 2008 as a nonprofit organization, “zoomed onto the scene to suddenly become a huge player in the much-overlooked field of climate education.”

The report points out that ACE “offers high schools free multimedia assemblies on climate change that utilize ‘cutting-edge animation, music and video’ (http://www.refresheverything.com/acespace)

more:
http://www.prwatch.org/ACE+BP_Report
http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3545

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Another few years, no one will have memories of Earth Day

and all the climate warnings.
The sources of information via "elders", schools, MSM, will be gone.

the Neo-cons are re-creating the British caste system, where only the
upper crust make decisions for everyone else.
Every lesson of the labor unions will have to be re-learned.

Literacy is dropping quickly in the US. For years the military has complained of young applicants who are functionally illiterate,
as have colleges.

Those of us in "the golden years" will realize we were the last generation to have it good in this country.