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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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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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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...account of racialised society in eighteenth-century England and the ‘New World’. This gives depth to the historical inequalities that resonate to the power dynamics and legacies of contemporary inequalities experienced in Western society. Equiano’s narrative also shines a lens on the power of African slaves whose knowledge, experience, intellect, and skills, which...
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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...accounts of Black children being given less latitude and understanding for their ‘autistic traits’ and associated behaviours, when compared with their White autistic peers. One indicative example was that of a Black mother (Toni) who was told by a teacher that her then 6-year-old son was ‘a potential gangleader’ (Malcolm and Green, 2025, p. 145). For Black mothers...
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‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...accounts were often repeated uncritically on the television, accompanied by sensationalised and selective film coverage. Such stories and images, together with political indifference and initial government failure to respond to the disaster, amounted to what The Economist termed ‘The shaming of America’ (The Economist, 10 September 2005, p. 11). [Figure 3 Flood waters...
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