Group 1: Build a model on an Asian political map showing the activities that contribute to the environmental conditions of India, Indonesia, Pakistan, China, Japan and South Korea.  Include a booklet explaining the model. 

Group 2: Research the role of the Ganges River in the lives of people in India.  Write and perform a guided visualization of life along this river including factors that contribute to the polluted state of the river and the problems the Indian government faces in addressing this issue.

Group 3: Write and record an NPR radio interview demonstrating the views of those who extract resources, including wood from the rain forests, and those who wish to further regulate this practice. SG1, text p.416

Group 4: Create a three minute video about the causes and effects of air pollution, including Asia Brown Cloud, on the people of Asia and the efforts by the government of China to meet this environmental problem.  SK5

Asian Brown Cloud

http://www.sfuhs.org/features/globalization/asian_cloud/index.html

http://google.nationalgeographic.com/search?site=default_collection&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF-8&q=Asian+Brown+Cloud&btnG.x=33&btnG.y=11&safe=active

http://www.infoimagination.org/ps/warm/brown_cloud.html

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/08/12/asia.haze/

 http://www-abc-asia.ucsd.edu/ABCProSida4Nov03.pdf

China’s pollution

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/planet.in.peril/china.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/03/31/archive/main178697.shtml

Environmental policies

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2007-10/10/content_6163583.htm

On June 29, 2002, the National People's Congress approved  new and comprehensive cleaner production legislation, the Cleaner Production Promotion Law. This new law is the most significant of a number of initiatives the Chinese government has taken to establish Cleaner Production nationwide as one of China's key strategies for sustainable development. It is unprecedented, being the first national law in the world to establish Cleaner Production as a national policy, and to lay out a strategy for its promotion and implementation. This law became effective January 1, 2003.