Democracy Executed: Understanding the Past, Engaging the Present, Shaping the Future

Students will develop a broad and critical understanding of the complex interconnections between the human and environmental forces in their world.

What Can You (We) Do? What Do I Do?

• Rely on a trusted newspaper: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc. Only read news sources that regularly publish corrections.

• Watch Reputable, Fact-Checked News: Public Broadcast Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), and Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Planet America (ABC)

Verify Information

Rely on reputable sources and fact-check anything before you share it and share the truth with everyone you know.  Some solid sources include:

• OurWorldinData.org - constantly updated and fact-checked

• Factcheck.org - full-time, non-profit fact-checking service

• Snopes.com - fights conspiracy theories with fact-checks and analysis

• Mediabiasfactcheck.com - rates the bias, factual accuracy, and credibility of media sources

• Pubmed.gov - free access to peer-reviewed medical studies

• Gapminder.org - great graphs based on the best data available

• Consensus AI - artificial intelligence trained only on peer-reviewed journals

Take Meaningful Action

What can you do as an individual? 

 

• “Act less like an individual.” —Bill McKibben

  • Support fact-based politicians, officials, and journalists; Help get the right people elected. 

  • Join the Glendale Environmental Coalition

Send donations to Grid Alternatives to install solar in low-income communities and to train installers