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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...sustainable, when we know that the Earth can’t keep on giving in a never-ending way. So we know that’s not sustainable, but can we get out of it; who can step off this mad bandwagon first? No government’s going to say, ‘Us, we’ll get off first.’ That’s not going to happen. So whether we have to go through some monumental catastrophe or collapse of...
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Video 20 mins
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...sustained time in school needs to be set aside for reading, alone and with others, for hearing narratives, poetry and nonfiction, and for book talk and recommendations through responsive use of this pedagogy. Review your practice in one of the areas. Check out the four pedagogy audits at https://researchrichpedagogies.org/research/theme/reading-forpleasure-pedagogy...
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Article 10 mins
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...Sustainability – many OER projects have received initial funding from organisations such as the Hewlett Foundation. How sustainable are they after the funding stops? Pedagogy – are different ways of teaching required to make effective use of open education? Barriers to uptake – what prevents individuals or institutions from either using or engaging with open...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...sustainable development indicators’ which – as well as measures such as economic growth, life expectancy and levels of inequality for different countries – include environmental indicators such as wildlife populations, pollution levels, recycling rates and annual GHG emissions. Another often used environmental indicator is the ecological footprint, which is based on...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...sustainable way with net energy and greenhouse gas benefits. So the best species because of their high water use efficiency are types of grasses like miscanthus and switchgrass, so we are certainly investing in those. But we're also very interested in even more water efficient plants types of species called agaves - they're a kind of cactus like material - some agaves...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...sustainable energy production. Both solar thermal energy and solar PV conversion involve technologies that can be deployed on personal through community to regional scales, using both simple and advanced technologies. You have probably seen solar PV panels that power automatic roadside weather stations and other low-drain communications systems. The panels require low...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...sustain prevailing gender hierarchies. The recruitment of neuroscience to validate traditional gender roles was vividly illustrated in an analysis that Helene Joffe and I conducted of media responses to the aforementioned PNAS study. Our analysis, which was recently published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, tracked the journey of the PNAS research from its initial...
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Article 10 mins
10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...and environmental impacts of transport activities in our free course_ Transport and sustainability. _ 9: Dropbox [Dropbox logo] Founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox is the answer to every scatty student's prayers. The idea came about when Houston kept forgetting to bring his USB stick to college to hand his assignments in (yeah, right!) - and the rest, they say, is history. Dropbox is ......
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Article 10 mins