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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...
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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...
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
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...
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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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...energies released by earthquakes...Earthquakes: 1.1 What happens during an earthquake? - The Earth is an active planet, with activity occurring in the oceans, in the atmosphere and in the solid Earth itself. This course looks at a dramatic example of solid Earth activity: earthquakes. You probably have some idea from newspapers, television or perhaps personal experience,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring comets: A short introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring comets: A short introduction

...solar wind and the comet’s atmosphere. ICE subsequently joined a fleet of two Soviet, two Japanese and one European Space Agency probe that studied Halley’s comet in 1986. ESA’s mission, Giotto, was the best equipped. It got to within nearly 600km, and sent back the first close-up pictures of a comet’s nucleus. The most spectacular mission before Rosetta was...
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Is public spending a drain on the economy or the mark of a civilised society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is public spending a drain on the economy or the mark of a civilised society?

...energy, such as wind, solar and tidal. In 30 years’ time, many businesses will no doubt be involved in the business of climate change mitigation, but for now the market signals are weak and businesses are either not responding to climate change, or not responding quickly enough. Large scale government expenditure is required now if we are to fulfil this part of our...
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Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...energy. Our goal is to try to remind society of the fact that humanity’s relationship with energy has always been changing, it’s always been very dynamic, and so we’re just trying to loosen up the public imagination about energy in the present, which has got rather static around the theme of fossil fuels. And then of course I am keeping going some of my work with...
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