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Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...tree memory box] Empathy Tree: a memory box (left) and bio-sensing jewellery (right). Photo by Bart van Overbeeke. The participants collaborated on a series of ‘prototypes’ to give a material shape to particular questions about the future. A prototype refers to an early version of an artefact that enables an examination of its creative possibilities. When thinking...
A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...family, and her inclusion in Byron's poetry, was enough to make her a subject of fascination. In 1853, The Leicester Chronicle sent a reporter to visit the memorial erected in her honour. This is his report...About ten or twelve miles from Leicester, in a westerly direction, situated on rather high ground and surrounded by trees, is the small village named Kirkby Mallory....
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...tree Arbutus andrachne (family Ericaceae) from southern Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean Basin (photo by J. Keeley) Growing points can be protected by plant parts other than bark. For example, some cycads (primitive distant relatives of conifers) and grass trees (Xanthorrhoea spp.) of Australia have a growing tip protected by dense rigid leaf bases that cluster round...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Hope in a changing climate
Nature & Environment

Hope in a changing climate

...Family, a success story from China's Loess Plateau. Hope in a Changing Climate, is a new documentary co-produced by The Open University and EEMP for BBC World, with support from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), The Open University, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and The World Bank... Hope...
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...tree? (50 words) Answer Black pepper is the only species in the Piperaceae family on the tree. Salt is not on the tree as it is not an edible species – it is a chemical compound and the salt you eat comes from inorganic, non-living sources. You should now have a better understanding of species being closely or distantly related, and how to describe this using terms such...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...family break-up, and even losing her personal freedom by going to jail. Yet she seems to have come out with no bitterness and resumed her peaceful struggle, eventually reaching greater heights, including government minister when democratic reforms came. She made environmental issues not only a concern of Kenya’s but also Africa’s concern, through the Green Belt...
How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?
Nature & Environment

How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?

...trees seems to be a good thing, ecologically. But... what if the saplings come wrapped in plastic bags? Kenyan Teddy Kinyanjui has come up with an elegant solution to take the plastic out of the forest...[Seedballs] Plastic bags are known for their environmental impact. They slowly release toxic chemicals once in the soil, for instance, and find their way into the guts of...
In your garden: Birds and nesting boxes
Nature & Environment

In your garden: Birds and nesting boxes

...trees with nesting holes disappear, and old houses and barns are repaired and upgraded. Fortunately, it is relatively easy to help correct this by providing nesting opportunities for birds in our gardens and other outdoor spaces. How can you help birds’ nest in your garden? When? [Bird boxes can provide shelter for birds during the winter] You can put up a nesting box...