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Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...sustainability...[Clothes shopping] I’m sure that many of us are guilty of owning a wardrobe full of clothes but still sometimes feeling that we have nothing to wear. If not yourself, you probably know someone who fits that description, and the likelihood is that a sense of not having the ‘right’ thing to wear will lead to shopping for more. The availability of...
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What is aquaponics - and how can fish poo help feed the world?
Nature & Environment

What is aquaponics - and how can fish poo help feed the world?

...sustainable agriculture. Kate Humble is involved, too...Who needs soil when you have a fish tank? “Aquaponics” combines growing plants in water, or hydroponics, with fish cultivation, or aquaculture. It’s a symbiotic process that has its roots in Asian farming practices reaching back thousands of years. When used well, aquaponics can increase local food production...
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Opening the wardrobe
Money & Business

Opening the wardrobe

...sustainable. Each year, UK households spend around £1,700* on clothing. High consumption levels are driven by ‘fast fashion’ trends and by readily available cheap clothing that is often seen as disposable, worn less, and thrown away quickly. Please take part in the interactive wardrobe audit by counting the number of jeans, t-shirts and socks that you own. You will...
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Our top OpenLearn hubs to get you started
Miscellaneous

Our top OpenLearn hubs to get you started

...sustainability to sport, employability to education...Our hubs bring together handpicked courses, videos, interactive activities and articles on a key theme. Whether you're looking to build skills, spark ideas or support others, there's something here for you. When you're ready, just click into a hub to start discovering free content that fits your interests. We’ve...
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Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?
Society, Politics & Law

Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?

...Sustainable Phosphorus Summit 2014 in Montpellier, France. [Trains loaded with phosphate rock, Al Metlaoui, Gafsa, Tunisia] Trains carrying phosphorus rock in Tunisia The idea of phosphorus as a human right is intriguing. While there are more than a dozen chemical elements that are known to be essential to life, none so far have necessitated a framework to ensure...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...sustainable programme-making that stretches back two decades. Under Ade’s leadership, Green.TV is a leader of global sustainability content-creation broadcasting. Ade is a former environment journalist with the BBC. His radio and television programme work there includes the flagship and primetime titles: Costing the Earth, Countryfile, The Holiday Programme and They...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering

...sustainable investments over a greater period of time. This is particularly true for things such as scientific research – whose gains, as well as the time it takes to achieve them, cannot be easily predicted. Recently, however, scholars have been theorizing the ways financial engineering techniques can be use to positively fund such important scientific research. Kevin...
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Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context
Nature & Environment

Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

...sustainable defence lines further inland. Accepting that extreme flooding is here to stay. Bangladesh: the issues Members of the DU311 course team explore the main issues emerging from the Bangladesh video case study. Injustice and inequality The discussion moves on to consider inequities in the causes and consequences of climate change between developing and developed...
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