Our school is within the city. It it highly urbanized, thickly populated, cars and other motorized vehicles are everywhere, mostly paved or asphalted, and the demands for water and electricity are very high. For a decade of staying in the city, I experienced flash floods with strong and continues rain with high speed wind that happens in a short span of time. Also, destructive hurricane like Sandy, blizzard conditions during winter. Summers are very hot and there are times that winters are in sub-zeros.

Since our area is highly urbanized, there are more contributors of greenhouse gases, less trees to utilize carbon dioxide, more people to consume electricity, light buildings where people work, factories that contribute greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Earth surface are generally covered with cement and asphalt which causes flooding even with small rain in a short span of time and also warmer during the day because cement and asphalt absorb heat faster than the ground covered with vegetation.

With these, my students can read news papers about weather conditions, read books and magazines about climate change, watch videos/news about the increasing environmental temperature and its impact. Students can also make investigation about permeability of the ground surface, how storm drain are made in the city, energy consumption of the school (includes both electricity and water consumption). My students students will plan on "Less Energy Day: No Projectors and Computer Day" and also "School Paperless Day".