In this article it talks about how the Zollverein, a coal mine is changing to renewable resources. The whole complex use to be coal and be bad for the workers and all cloudy but now it is changed to UNESCO. This relates to environmental science because it is talking about renewable resources, which is part of the chapter we just learned. Turning this place into renewable resources is very healthy for our planet, it won't be as hard on the environment and because the coal is a non renewable resource it could potentially run out. I found it really interesting that the article said that today there are only two hard coals that remains, that really shows how quickly these nonrenewable resources run out, and it is really good to be changing from using those. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/germany-rsquo-s-transition-from-coal-to-renewables-offers-lessons-for-the-world/

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 18, 2017 at 7:25 AM

    That is so cool! We have been using coal since the dawn of time I can see why we only have two hard coals left. I find this article interesting as well because its a big change going from coal to renewable resources which is a big part of what we are learning. Great job!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2017 at 10:09 AM

    I agree with Becca, this article is definitely interesting! Switching from coal to renewable resources is very positive and much safer for our environment. By using the renewable resources, we won't run out of the nonrenewable resources (such as the coal) so quickly and will in turn, have them for a much longer time period.

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