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Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics

...sustainability and global environmental issues. This is political education at its most basic level: putting your money, voice and body to good purpose – making public concern with climate change visible and establishing a viable, if temporary, low environmental-impact community. At the Lewes site, local residents were encouraged to take part in creating vegetable and...
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Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...sustainable as it represents a waste of a potential resource. A slightly better option is to burn the plastic within a refuse-derived-fuel to recover the energy trapped within the materials, this is often the best option for highly contaminated plastics. A better solution to waste plastics, if simple reuse isn’t practical, is to recycle the plastic materials. This is...
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COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step
Nature & Environment

COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step

...sustainable agriculture, forest management, and forest conservation and restoration’. The Global Methane Pledge to reduce ethane emissions by 30% by 2030 by over 100 countries so far. Global Coal to Clean Power Transition, supported by around 40 countries so far including many who signed up to the principle of ‘ceasing issuance of new permits for new unabated...
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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?

...sustainable careers at all levels, part time and full time, as teachers as well as internationally famous researchers, and as lab technicians as well as professors. Clem Herman does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations. [The Conversation] This...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste

...sustainability and market for a wide range of “regional” art nationally and internationally. Tracy Callinan covers these themes in depth in her article “What are the Regional Arts and Why do they Matter?” Businesses are also increasingly relying on art for their success. A number of the world’s largest companies have become some of the art world’s biggest...
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...Sustainability at the University of Michigan) says, Indigenous people have had to adapt to dramatically altered environments and climates ever since the apocalyptic colonisation of the world by Europeans. Whyte’s Potawatomi nation ancestors were forcibly removed from their forested territory to the arid lands of Oklahoma in the nineteenth century. Those who survived the...
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The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...sustained self-management are crucial for improving quality of life. Since 2019, over 26,000 members of the public engaged with the talks, and the overall AWPTS portfolio of co-produced resources has engaged over 90,000 people globally.You can access each of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series via the ORDO Collections - follow the links below the article or the AWPTS...
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‘Resilience isn’t enough’: why the growth of women’s football could lead to player burnout
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Resilience isn’t enough’: why the growth of women’s football could lead to player burnout

...sustainable future for the sport means investing not just in performance, but in protection: standardised access to physiotherapy, sport psychology and wellbeing professionals for all players, across all clubs. If the game truly wants to thrive long-term, it must create a culture where players aren’t just expected to perform, but are supported to rest, recover and speak...
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