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Nature & Environment
Literature and the Environment
Can reading encourage us to appreciate the environment and make sustainable changes to our lives?
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COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step
Some of the 27,000 children born during the two weeks of COP26 will be 71 years old on the 100th Anniversary of the Rio 1992 Earth Summit. As that generation retells the story of how the nations of the world worked together to eventually limit dangerous global heating, Glasgow’s COP26 will be worth a mention.
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The psychological impacts of climate change
People around the world are suffering from “climate anxiety”. What is it and what can we do about it?
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Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world
Water is essential to all life on Earth. This article explores how climate change is challenging our ways of thinking about and managing this scarce resource.
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Chief OU observer ‘optimistic’ after first three days.
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Universities United
Reflections on how higher education institutions are working together to tackle climate change.
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Society, Politics & Law
Should animals have legal standing?
The law recognises babies, companies and ships as ‘persons’ with legal rights, but not even the most intelligent animals. Is it time for this to change?
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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Derek Taylor reflects on the 25 years since launching the innovative Open University T521 Renewable Energy Pack for Tertiary Education. This was a revolutionary development for the OU.
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Science, Maths & Technology
The benefits of a longer product life
A savvy shift in industrial resourcefulness is reflected in products that last longer, are adaptable, maintainable, and repairable. Such products optimise material value through preventing waste. These design strategies challenge the ways we create, use, and dispose of our everyday stuff. By extending the utility of our products, we reduce ...
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
How might an Indigenous artwork transform responses to Climate Change? Find out as a Totonac totem travels to COP26.
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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Divestment from fossil fuels has increased over the last decade as a moral and financial response to the 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?
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Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate
You might now understand what COP stands for, but have you heard of the TCFD requirements?