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Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...carbon footprint of clothing. Washing less frequently, using larger loads, tumble drying less and following the care label all make a difference to how long a t-shirt will last and could cut the carbon footprint by 7%. Half of the 120 million t-shirts that are no longer wanted in the UK each year go on to be reused. The other 50% go to recycling, energy generation or...
Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...40 years and have understood most of what my unconscious is up to most of the time. Now I am a small-holder, which includes being a repair mechanic and builder. I grow all our vegetables and most of our fruit. We also keep chickens for eggs and meat... We have an amazing life with a very low carbon footprint (we have two electric vehicles powered by our solar systems).”...
The Valentine's rose trade story in a dozen roses
Nature & Environment

The Valentine's rose trade story in a dozen roses

...carbon footprints. As opposed to production in South America and Africa, production in The Netherlands uses intensive advanced technology such as hydroponics]Would this huge international trade in roses be much smaller if we celebrated St. Valentine's day in summer? Show description Infographic looking at the global rose trade. £2.5 billion market value (2024), Fresh cut...
Do Something Great
Nature & Environment

Do Something Great

...carbon footprint, get involved with our 'creative climate' project and find out why it's important to save the earth. Inspire different age groups Thinking about volunteering to help another age group to transfer your generation's skills and knowledge? Find out more by trying our interactive on challenging ageism and free courses on the topic. Start saving species Look...
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...carbon footprints’. For over 300 years, Modern Western civilization has sought to overcome nature (including human nature), so much so that there is no part of the world where the imprint of humankind cannot be found. Hence the recent naming of a new epoch as the Anthropocene. Those of us living in the current period have been shaped by our separation from the rest of...
Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...carbon emissions worldwide, petrol cars equate to roughly 33% of C02 emissions in the United Kingdom alone (Source). Review your car usage to see if there’s any way to reduce your trips. Maybe on some journeys, you could use public transport instead, or bike to work every once in a while. Car sharing is another fantastic way to reduce cars on the road. Not only is this...
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...carbon footprint User experience design, and digital design Coding Programming, web, and app development SEO, SEM, and content creation Data science, analysis, and visualisation Digital learning and development Digital project and product management Digital marketing and social media Digital leadership capabilities Digital transformation decision making Activity 3 How...
Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Nature & Environment

Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan

...carbon footprints. While several of the government ministers present, including the UK’s Perry, made a point of stressing their commitment to carbon capture and storage technologies [good luck with that!], at least one country was prepared to extend its ban to another unsustainable energy technology. Inuit gains Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which...