Kurt Thonnings / Middle School Engineering Teacher
Lee Burneson Middle School * Westlake, Ohio
Email:  thonnings@wlake.org 
Website: https://thonnings.blog/ 

Speech     Google Slides

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Web Links

• Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research

• Where clean energy jobs are growing the fastest

• This new doc shows how renewable energy recharges communities

• Reinventing Power  Sierra Club
• Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas

• Critical Mass and Tipping Points: How To Identify Inflection Points Before They Happen

• Energy Production & Changing Energy Sources

Books

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

• Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers

• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition 

• The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better

• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom 

• The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

• Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization

• Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline

TED Talks

• How to start a movement by Derek Sivers

Programs

• Junior Solar Sprint
• KidWind Challenge
• Engineering Brightness

Educational Opportunities for teachers

• KidWind and the ReCharge academy
• NREL:  Energy Institute for Teacher