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Core 160: Energy and Environment (Paul Meyer Reimer Fall 2024)

Topic Summary

Carbon taxes/markets (see: British Columbia or Ireland)

Selected Credo Reference Sources

Credo Reference is a recommended source to Explain the "issues" related to your topic - Describe the idea of your topic. You are choosing one topic to examine critically. State the questions you're investigating and explain (writing for an audience of your peers) what the issues are.

Selected New York Times sources

For details on how to setup your own subscription to the New York Times via GC, visit http://libraryguides.goshen.edu/nytimes

New York Times is a recommended resource to describe at least one other country's experience with regard to your topic. Ideally, choose a country which has consciously tried a promising or unusual approach. Some of these are listed in the list of topics. Write about what from their experience might work well (or not so well) if we were to try that in the United States.

Selected CQ Researcher Sources

CQ Researcher is a recommended database to identify government policies that might foster what you feel are more sustainable approaches with regard to your topic.

Selected Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Sources

Academic Search Premier (in EBSCO) is a recommended database to find articles from respectable journals via the web.