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Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change
Nature & Environment

Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change

...carbonate, soaking up the chemistry of the seawater surrounding them as they do this. The chemistry of the seawater that they lock into their shells can record the temperature of the seawater that they grew in and how fresh or salty the water was. At the end of their life cycle, these calcium carbonate shells remain intact, sink and are buried on the ocean floor. A wealth...
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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...carbon, but also argued that the price should actually be fairly low and we should very gradually deviate from a 'no policy' scenario and we should very modestly reduce greenhouse gas emissions initially but much more stringently. RH: So you were trying to prove that wrong? RT: I was trying to prove that wrong and I must admit that I completely failed there. After five,...
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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
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Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...carbon forms of energy. RH: Well the public sector has made solar vastly cheaper, hasn’t it, that extraordinary and some people thought at the time, Quixotic ambition from the Germans for a million solar roofs in cloudy Northern Europe, but that unleashed a huge amount of private investment into R&D and then stimulated the Chinese to produce their solar panels, which...
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Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...footprint and to understand your place alongside others working collectively. Developing compassionate thinking through such pedagogies can nurture sustainable individuals in life and work. Examples of compassionate pedagogies: Poems, story-telling, art, music, listening with empathy, valuing learners’ contributions, building relationships, having the space and tools to...
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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...carbon-based fuels along by boosting energy costs, means that humanity will have to delay buying other good things such as clean water, sanitation, better food and more education.’ NS: There will have to be substantial investment in different ways of doing things, but what we’ve seen over the last nine years since the stern review was published, very rapid falls in...
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Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...carbon fuels, particularly biofuels, but the future of transport is likely to be electric. This course explains the technologies of battery-electric hybrid vehicles, full battery electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles, where the electricity is produced from hydrogen fuel. The final section of this course also looks at those transport modes that may be the most difficult...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Injection moulding
Science, Maths & Technology

Injection moulding

...carbon fibre) and to produce both structural and sandwich foams. Material is in the form of powder or granules (thermopolymers), strips (rubbers) and dough moulding compounds (DMC) for reinforced thermosets. Fibre lengths in DMC vary from 5–50 mm depending on the type of DMC, and the injection moulding method. Polymer Moulding temperature To (°C) Freeze-off temperature...
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Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?
Nature & Environment

Is the 2020 New Deal a Green New Deal?

...carbon energy technologies, can be argued to have the potential to achieve green growth by decoupling carbon emissions, along with other forms of environmental degradation, from economic growth. These activities all connect well to the Keynesian approaches of stimulating aggregate demand, but arguably in a greener way by focusing on environmentally sustainable sectors of...
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