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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...climate change, a bit like Yellowstone goes West-East, he wants it go North-West. He probably means you need to add an awful lot more onto it. But the point is made is that there are going to be some very big ideas around this Shared Planet area. One thing. And the second thing is that we are going to have to get very, very in line with the whole social media, online,...
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2014. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...climate change,” he says. “People are still questioning whether Jesus is going to come and save us from the sun. It’s a big problem, because if you do not have a scientifically literate public, you cannot have a true conversation about how to progress forward in the world.” [Sketch of a cyborg] You might say: so what? An iPhone can do the same as an implant chip....
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...climate change, things seem to be more unpredictable. I think now more than ever there’s a real thirst and appetite for series that connect ideas and that connect animals and life processes with earth processes and give people a higher level of understanding than they’ve had before. How is television production evolving? I’m really fascinated with the idea of no...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...climate change, invasive species, conservation, ecological restoration, monitoring water quality and studying population ecology, to name just a few. (There are more examples at the end of this week and in Week 8.) There has been a rapid growth in the range, diversity, scale and scope of these types of initiative, particularly over the past ten years. There is also an...
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...change in GEES' project exploring the open licensing of climate change and sustainability resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. The C-change in GEES project was funded by HEFCE as part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER programme and coordinated by the GEES Subject Centre. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...climate change can also influence health. In the activity above you started to consider influences on health. The Dahlgren and Whitehead rainbow is a well-established description of how influences at different levels (and influences within layers) interact to determine health (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 1993). Figure 3 shows how individual lifestyle factors (Layer 4) are...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...Climate change is a good example of something that will ultimately have a significant impact, but that may currently seem irrelevant for many of us at work...Week 4: Career resilience – dealing with external challenges: 1.1 Climate change - There are different ways in which climate change might impact on the workplace, ranging from increasing ......
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs