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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...energy solutions. And then I’m also – separately but with a major overlap – doing some what the Open University call ‘legacy interviews’, long-form interviews, in which we talk to key players round the world on energy at some length about what got them interested in it and we probe solutions and problems a little more deeply. The idea is that they will remain on...
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Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...energy and materials to all ecosystems. It is, then, difficult to make a clear distinction between a 'managed environment' and a 'natural ecosystem', although we can all understand the difference in principle between planned management and inadvertent change. Not only are we part of nature, but, as Figure 1 suggests, we exert an increasingly dominant influence on our...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...energy and transport and consumption of food, goods and services. It’s measured as the mass, in kilograms or tonnes per year, either of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions alone, or of CO2 plus the mass of other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions converted into their carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) global warming effect. The carbon footprint can also be calculated for an event...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...energy generated) created at times of surplus to non-renewable energy generators. So, many so-called 100% green electricity tariffs are a mix of fossil fuel, nuclear and renewables purchased on the wholesale market and then ‘labelled’ green by buying REGO certificates. Other ‘greenwashing’ electricity suppliers, including some who claim to supply 100% renewable...
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Reduce e-waste through donating old computer devices
Nature & Environment

Reduce e-waste through donating old computer devices

...energy efficient. Moves to do this have started with ‘right to repair’ laws (although they do not cover computers or smartphones yet) and WEEE regulations (waste electrical and electronic equipment) but there are also things we can do now. [A pile of old discard laptop devices on a shop shelf] Reasons to donate Old computers can often have some life left in them. Here...
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Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
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Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...Energy. He was previously CEO of BP from 1995–2007, transforming it into one of the world’s largest companies. He was knighted in 1998, and made a life peer in 2001. John Browne is Chairman of Huawei UK, the Tate Galleries and Donmar Warehouse and has authored the memoir Beyond Business, popular science book Seven Elements that Have Changed the World, The Glass...
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The Middle East conflict has swiftly exposed economic vulnerability in the region
Society, Politics & Law

The Middle East conflict has swiftly exposed economic vulnerability in the region

...energy sector, and a vast AI campus in the UAE. It is these kinds of projects which led the World Bank and the World Economic Forum to publish glowing reports on the region recently. Both organisations agreed in late 2025 that oil wealth was being wisely invested for the future. The general view was that the GCC was a place of economic stability and diversity. A director...
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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...energy-hungry desalinated water. Despite decades of policies aimed at diversifying the country’s economy away from oil, the UAE’s hydrocarbon sector makes up a quarter of GDP, half of the country’s exports and 80% of government revenues. Oil rent helps buy socioeconomic stability, for instance, by providing local people with public-sector sinecures. [An oil field...
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