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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...account of practice, rather than hiding plastic bottles - and our dependence on them - in the recycling bin, adults and children played and explored in a room filled with hundreds of bottles. The experience required adults and children to move differently and to think differently about our relationship with plastic. Shared dependence and vulnerability Such researchers...
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Being human: spirit, consciousness and being (or not being) in bodies
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being human: spirit, consciousness and being (or not being) in bodies

...accounts of people claiming to have ‘left’ their body and being able to look down on events in real time while they were dead. Increasingly, scientific observations are also suggesting that consciousness can in fact be disembodied. That consciousness can also exist – at least in part and in some way – outside that body. Just like Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr’s brain in...
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Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...accounted for, meaning that almost 83% of eWaste is likely not properly recycled, recovered or disposed of. The Basel Action Network report highlighted that much of this ends up being shipped to villages across Africa and China, which lack facilities to safely manage the waste. [Pile of retired computer processors with gold plated pins] Beyond CO2e emissions, eWaste...
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Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach

...accounts for around 20% of a population’s health. Health behaviours are considered to contribute about 30% towards our health – but even these are not just a matter of personal responsibility. The important message to get across is that the main drivers of our health are socio-economic and environmental circumstances. We then see a complex interplay between these...
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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...accountable for their crimes.” “I’m stunned," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) said. "President Obama’s commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence is a grave mistake that I fear will encourage further acts of espionage and undermine military discipline. It also devalues the courage of real whistle-blowers who have used proper channels to hold our government...
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PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...accounts: "There is a fundamental problem in a sports league, which is if everybody wants to be the winner and only one team can be, there's a danger that everyone overspends in the hope of being that one successful team. That means that everyone might end up losing money, and that seems to be the situation that we find ourselves in at the moment. And lower division teams...
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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...account) widened to £92.9 billion in 2014 (5.1% of GDP) and the largest annual deficit since records began in 1948. So the deficit that matters has been ignored. There is no plan to ensure that the country will live within its means: no plan for exports; no plan for productivity; no “march of the makers”. Housing Vikki McCall, lecturer in social policy and housing,...
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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...account for ‘direct emissions’, around 20% of the total consumption-based footprint. This calculator uses national statistics for the most typical cases, then refines this level with further questions. The result is usually close to that obtained from real data. Your household Why count both adults and children in the household? The calculator gives its results in...
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