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Using and managing waste
Science, Maths & Technology

Using and managing waste

...energy from waste, and composting. In the bonus audio tracks Professor Andrew Porteous of The Open University explains why the case studies were chosen, and Dr Suresh Nesaratnam gives an overview of the academic context in which waste management is studied. The material forms part of The Open University course T210 Environmental control and public health... Using and...
Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...energy and transport and consumption of food, goods and services. It’s measured as the mass, in tonnes per year, either of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions alone, or of CO2 plus the mass of other GHG emissions, such as methane, converted into their carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) global warming effect. Video: Peter Harper explains the concept of the carbon footprint...
Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Nature & Environment

Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan

...energy alternatives, and embracing the health and economic benefits that will result. The Alliance opened with 25 signatories. By the end of the 75-minute launch event on the second-last day of COP23 here in Bonn, El Salvador and Oregon had both signed on. By joining the alliance, governments commit to “phasing out traditional coal power and placing a moratorium on any...
What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...energy use. While this is also an enormous chunk of total global energy use, there is a glimmer of hope here, because the internet industry is widely known to be advancing their switch from conventional fuels to renewable sources. However, there are nuances that we should be mindful of here, too. While the IPCC’s estimate of the internet energy consumption encapsulates...
The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Nature & Environment

The drive to sustainability in Higher Education

...Energy SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production SDG 13 - Climate Action Such HE sustainability drives can be classified into three broad areas: Sustainable campus initiatives; Education for Sustainable Development (ESD); and sustainable HE teaching and learning systems. Sustainable campus initiatives Most HE institutions have established sustainability policies to...
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...energy? NS: I’d been working on economics and development all my professional life, starting in the late sixties, so energy in relation to development has always been an important subject for me, but focussing on energy is really dating from about ten years ago when I started to work on the Stern Review which I began that work in 2005 and it was published in autumn...
Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...energy, notably solar with storage, I think if we added enough money into the research budget, the R&D budget, to really push breakthroughs in this area, I think we could get some big mileage, some much more important development for the future and there’s a lot that could be done in that area, but it requires much more investment in R&D and probably less amount of roll...
Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...energy system) for the length of the climb and prevent fatigue (cardiorespiratory endurance). Muscles will need to continually contract in order to provide propulsion, strength and maintain technique (muscular strength endurance). Using a combination of cardiorespiratory and muscular strength endurance, climbers can maintain a constant high speed and/or workload close to...