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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...courses. What is a carbon footprint? The carbon footprint is the annual amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly carbon dioxide, that result from the activities of an individual, a group of people, a town or city, region or nation, mainly from the use of energy and transport and consumption of food, goods and services. It’s measured as the mass, in tonnes per...
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Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two
Society, Politics & Law

Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two

...course of the decade that follows, and that’s climate change. The documentary ‘Under the weather: Overheating’, broadcast in 1981 is one of the first longer documentaries we have found that covers the issue of human-caused climate change. The uncertainties are emphasised, but the potentially far-reaching consequences are laid out before the audience. So how should...
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How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
Digital & Computing

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

...course they can be just as influenced by unconscious gender stereotypes as the rest of the population. The report recommends institutions and grant makers take equality and diversity training to help reveal hidden attitudes and processes that might be affecting how women are treated in their organisations. And it goes one step further, by suggesting this kind of training...
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Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society
Society, Politics & Law

Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society

...course, greater female rule compliance is just one among several explanations for why women are disproportionately represented in call centre jobs. Some women may choose themselves to work in call centres. Call centre work is often amenable to flexible working, which makes it attractive to women of child-rearing age. And, of course, there are deep-rooted beliefs in...
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Machiavelli and Political power
Society, Politics & Law

Machiavelli and Political power

...course AA311 Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill If you would like to learn more about the history of the 19th Century then have a look at course A221 State, Economy and Nation in the Nineteenth-Century Europe If you would like to find out more about these subjects, here are a few suggestions. Books you can read The Prince,Niccolo Machiavelli, Peter...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...and even plastic as products of our shared world. We need to live alongside, and not in charge, of life on our planet. To learn more about identifying the support needs of young children, check out this free OpenLearn Create course Scottish early learning and childcare practitioners' courses [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...course on trust. This provides an overview of trust in the workplace and serves as a gentle introduction to this topic: Developing high trust work relationships. In development following our plan to launch this hub is a further course complementing the first. This will focus on Trust breaches and addresses the idea of trust as something that can be breached, the impact of...
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Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...course, is that we care less about things that happened many years ago than about things that happened more recently. However, that will not do as a reply as it simply puts off answering the question: is it right that we care less? Jack the Ripper’s victims suffered as much as the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims; they were all living, breathing, feeling individuals whose...
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