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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...become clutter to hoard or will it end up in a landfill? It’s desirable to purchase new material goods, but before purchasing something brand new, is there something you already have that could be reused? Could you borrow it from a friend instead, or see if there is anything available second-hand? Everything you buy second-hand is saving it from landfill. Some items do...
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The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...become a prominent social concern for businesses, but how does this translate to the strategies of large corporations?...In this article, I discuss different perspectives, which could help us to incorporate sustainability more fully into business practice. [Fashionable modern businessman with smartphone on landfill, consumerism versus pollution concept. ] Stakeholder...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...become like a production line of nature experiences - cut a wood cookie, experience a fire - commodified for their learning potential. Anxiety, injustice and rights Climate anxiety is growing in young people, according to a global survey, and young children are not immune from older children’s worries. They are feelings shared by adults too. These are not abstract fears...
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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...becoming increasingly evidenced in this way. I’m writing up the results now, in an article on war-time bibliotherapy co-authored with my colleague Dr Edmund King. Watch this space for further updates! Endell Street: learning, researching, expanding the story [Deeds Not Words - still from the drama] A still from the immersive drama on Endell Street Military Hospital As I...
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How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto
Languages

How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto

...become his legendarium – the mythology that underpins The Lord of the Rings. But behind the fiction was his interest in another epic act of creation: the construction of imaginary languages. That same year, on the other side of Europe, Ludwik Zamenhof died in his native Poland. Zamenhof had also been obsessed with language invention, and in 1887 brought out a book...
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Sherry is not just for Christmas
Science, Maths & Technology

Sherry is not just for Christmas

...become more familiar with the varieties of sherry and realised that dry Sherries are really quite good. As a chemist I wanted to understand what makes a good sherry wine? Is it artistry or science? Well actually it’s a bit of both. Sherry is unique to Spain and can only be made from vines growing in a small area in the southern region around the city of Jerez . Here the...
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...becoming increasingly important, and there are many reasons for this. The workplace is where adults spend most of their adult lives and form working relationships and create enduring friendships. Many work processes involve trust, from negotiation to sales, management and coaching, job interviews and teamwork. A lack of trust can create significant problems for...
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Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Lesbianism and the criminal law of England and Wales

...become a crime. The MPs who introduced the proposal – as a tactic to waste parliamentary time – claimed that lesbianism was a growing problem. Other MPs and peers were unconvinced: a former Director of Public Prosecutions said criminalisation ‘would [make] public to thousands of people that there was this offence; that there was such a horror.’3 One MP argued that...
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