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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...lifestyle and technical changes, but because their choices send signals to government and industry, as do political actions such as campaigning and voting on environmental issues. Study a free course This resource is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...
Why would you want your own web domain?
Digital & Computing

Why would you want your own web domain?

...resource provisioning of the site myself. Taking the step towards hosting your own site is a big one, for many people (I’m too lazy to host my own sites, for example…) But initiatives like Reclaim Hosting, and more recently OU Create (from Oklahoma University, not the UK OU), originally inspired by a desire to provide a personal playspace in which students could...
Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation

...further reading These three women poets are just a few of the many contemporary Irish women publishing and receiving acclaim for their work. There is more information about contemporary Irish women’s poetry in the following resources. Poetry Ireland The Irish Poetry Reading Archive Salmon Poetry The Gallery Press Dedalus Press Arlen House Poet Head by Chris Murray...
Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...resource centre or similar advice-giving organisation they should be able to help you discover if there is a local college. As recovery colleges are educational establishments you don’t need a health referral and you can apply directly to them. One college states: ‘There is absolutely no need for a referral; in fact we do not have a system for referrals. Although the...
Mycoprotein - could this meat alternative be a food for the future?
Science, Maths & Technology

Mycoprotein - could this meat alternative be a food for the future?

...resources or, more colloquially, harm the environment. Meat products account for a high percentage of agricultural land use and emissions so reducing meat consumption is recognised as a viable climate change mitigation strategy. This also means a growing population must be fed with a minimal expansion of agricultural land, and food production growth must come from...
Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity
Society, Politics & Law

Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity

...resources https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/refugees-migrants-and-asylum?utm_source=google&utm_medium=grant&utm_campaign=AWA_REFU_asylum-seekers&utm_content=famous%20refugees https://lithub.com/15-works-of-contemporary-literature-by-and-about-refugees/
How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
Digital & Computing

How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?

...Resource Centre for Women in SET (UKRC) of which the Open University was a core partner. I commend the select committee for illustrating the impact of the 2010 budget cuts which meant much of this work has been stopped. What the UKRC recognised was that it was no good trying to patch up the problem in one organisation or for one group of women. Rather, changes are needed...
Machiavelli and Political power
Society, Politics & Law

Machiavelli and Political power

...resources on the net in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Also on this site: join Kriss Akabusi as he asks is there any limit to physical power and Anita Roddick asks just how powerful is people power ? If you think you might be interested in studying more about these subjects, find out what the Open University has to offer. The BBC and the Open University are not...