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Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...climate emergency must recognise the value of looking at the past for the origins of our assumptions about how we build and why we value some habits of building. We need to create not just sustainable ways of building, but also sustainable ways of living as households and as communities. Studying architectural history can help us understand where we have come from, and...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...changes to our lives?...Find out about The Open University's Open qualifications [River Dordogne in France Perigord] River Dordogne in France Perigord In his essay ‘Of Cannibals’, first published in 1580, the French writer Michel de Montaigne noted that his local river, the Dordogne, had in twenty years eroded its right bank and taken over so much land that the...
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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...climate crisis, but is it an effective approach to tackle the severity of challenges we now face and how can it support the goals of COP26?...[Stylised photo of air pollution from a chimney] Fossil fuel divestment involves the removal of money from shares, funds, or bonds that support the fossil fuel industry. The movement started in 2012 and is the now fastest-growing...
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Ideas about living sustainably
Nature & Environment

Ideas about living sustainably

...climate crisis can feel overwhelming. There are so many things we can do to be greener that it's hard to know where to start. ...The Open University held its first online Sustainability event for staff in 2020 and we looked at breaking this issue down into easier 'manageable challenges' in our lives, so we can all do our bit to create positive change. We invited a range...
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...Climate, Biodiversity and Desertification and Agenda 21, was supposed to launch a very important fourth International Framework Convention, which never made it. The run-up to Rio included a set of negotiations on an international Framework Convention on Forestry; a topic which of course sits at the heart of the other three Conventions. It never made it as a legally...
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When did the largest ocean current on Earth start?
Nature & Environment

When did the largest ocean current on Earth start?

...change the current may face as the climate continues to change. [A map showing the modern-day pathway of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current ] A map showing the modern-day pathway of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current shown in blue. Modern coastlines are shown on top of grey continental fragments. Drake Passage is indicated by the orange dashed circle. The Tasman Gateway is...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage

...climate?...Drifting continents and the life and death of the Pacific Ocean How are oceans ‘born’ and how do they age and ‘die’? The Earth's face is changing all the time, but at very slow rates. It is now known that the Earth is a highly dynamic planet - far more so than the other terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars) and the Moon - and one that has...
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Evolution
Science, Maths & Technology

Evolution

...climate of Svalbard, reindeer have adapted to their environment in different ways. The five video tracks in this album explore the key concepts of evolutionary science and investigate how these account for the characteristics of arctic reindeer. How do natural selection and other evolutionary processes produce changes in genes? How do new species originate? And how are...
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