Nature & Environment
Stories of Change
Video interviews capturing the thinking of key players in the climate change and energy debates at a critical time.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Waste Management
...energy recovery and landfill. This material forms part of T308 Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Control... Waste Management A short introduction to this album. Waste Minimisation Cutting down the amount of waste we create per household is our biggest challenge. Waste Re-use How your recycling gets separated and processed. When to re-use packaging, opt for...
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...
Science, Maths & Technology
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
...solar system (perhaps within the first 60-100 million years), when impacts between planets clearing out their orbits were frequent in comparison to today. [simple artistic representation of the collison hypothesis model for the formation of the Moon ] Fig. 2: Simple artistic step-by-step representation of the collision hypothesis model for the formation of the Moon over...
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...
Health, Sports & Psychology
What is Open Thanatology?
...energy to promote these fields of research and education. The Open Thanatology Hub showcases education we have created based on our research and flag-ship modules and curriculum here at the Open University, as well as our collaborations with other academics, professional organisations, and charities...[Open Thanatology logo] The word thanatology is derived from the Greek...
Nature & Environment
Reducing your ecological footprint
...energy efficient household in Oxford and pioneering work at the Eden Project and Mount Pleasant Eco Park in Cornwall. This material forms part of The Open University course U116, Environment: journeys through a changing world... Reducing your ecological footprint A short introduction to this album Eco-Renovations Reducing your carbon footprint at home. A couple from...
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...