How can we Create Change in our Communities

My overall topic is creating change in our communities. Students will research ways that the environment is being depleted. Topics such as oil drilling, endangered marine life and hurricanes shaping coastlines. These are topics I have researched, but students may even come up with different interesting issues. I choose this topic because I care about our planet and want to foster the same drive in my students. I am still exploring more ideas of how I can expand this across lessons and through a service learning project.