more accessible to students. thanks i love the bell ringers. i use them in conjunction with activities we are doing that day as a wrapup. fabulous. website is my students use it regularly and they are working on clipping videos and making questions that they can design and turn into their own bell ringers. >> probably my favorite is the elimination days. it is fully developed and ready to go classroom discussion on a variety of discussions that are current and relevant today. i'm announcer: join your fellow teachers across the nation as a member. it is free and easy to register. if you register now you can request a free american presidents timeline poster. a graphic display of all 45 presidents. find out more about it at

c-span.org classroom. >> all month, we are featuring student cam winners in the student documentary a petition middle and high school students. this year, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress. our first prize high school winner is a student from laramie high school. she believes transitioning to clean energy is an urgent issue in her documentary. take a look. ♪ >> every day starts with energy whether it is alarm clocks, lighting, heating, air-conditioning, or driving to work. ever since the industrial there has been

abundant energy that has boosted economic development. >>: allows us to a very low taxes. colleges, road systems, and education. that is a wonderful benefit for laramie. a problem, there is with relying on a single source of revenue. >> it is quite inconsistent. fossiltuating prices of fuels has led to the university of wyoming being subjected to hundreds of layoffs. >> but for other people and wyoming, there are places that on very locally dependent

coal and national -- natural gas. are very-- places that locally dependent upon call and natural gas. i don't think trying to protect eight technology that is fading is the way to fix that. >> wyoming has other potential energy sources and wind, solar, and geothermal. >> we have the best wind in the continental united states said there is a great opportunity for wind development. gottenr has also unbelievably inexpensive in the last couple years. sources for other wind power. >> our nation and the world at large would greatly benefit from transitioning to renewable energy sources. >> maybe this will put some of

our workers back to work. >> there are several challenges. >> it is tricky with wind. need the kind of transmission lines, a way to have it reach other centers of the united states desperately looking for energy. it transitions from an to another industry that will take more than a generation. affectue is how it will people within that generation. generates -- >> in energy there is no perfect solution so when there is no perfect solution, you look or the good and the good is going

to be a diverse energy supply. >> what should the new president do? less dependent on fossil fuel. we need their support and ideas to help us through the transition. electricity generated from coal fire and national -- natural gas, it would not be as cheap. >> i would suggest the new president don't rely solely on conventional or renewable. get enough of that energy to make sure people can afford to fill their car with gas. of energy.t source you cannot just cut off fossil fuel.

80% of the energy supply would be cut off essentially. tracks find out a way to use the abundant resources we have a hand at the same time reduce or eliminate any possible negative effects. as a nation, we should support the development of new technology that will make facilities cleaner, that will improve energy efficiency in our homes and businesses and help us find new ways to produce the energy that powers our daily lives. >> change the equation to, how do you turn it into an asset? energy and environmental preservation are important criteria. >> if we, the chinese, the ussians, -- >> we won to keep our environmental air standards up so we are not putting our

future, our kids, later on down , there is an estimate that over one billion people live in energy poverty that do not have ready access to refrigeration, light. we need all energy sources. >> if you just said now we're going to replace all of the fossil fuels with three nobles still not meeting the energy needs of the planet. that should be the goal. >> it actually came out of the international energy agency world energy outlook in 2008 and this quote says the world's energy system is at a crossroads. current trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable. environmentally, economically, and socially. >> energy is like a big ship.

when you navigate their ships down the mississippi river and start to turn, you have to turn before you are in the turn. like, you're looking well before the turn and energy is he same way. the only challenge we face right now as we are already at the turn. >> fossil fuels are dwindling. unsustainable. rising global demand, volatile prices and environmental and health concerns, we have no choice but to transition to alternative sources of energy. we might as well start now. ♪ announcer: to watch all of the prize-winning documentaries in this year's studentcam competition, visit studentcam.org. ♪ announcer: c-span, where history unfolds daily.

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