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Nature & Environment
Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Chief OU observer ‘optimistic’ after first three days.
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Nature & Environment
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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Nature & Environment
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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Nature & Environment
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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Nature & Environment
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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Nature & Environment
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?
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Nature & Environment
Climate change and the importance of COP26
Learn about climate change from different disciplinary perspectives and how that knowledge and experience may explain and inform the outcomes of COP26.
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Society, Politics & Law
The sharing economy
How sharing and caring is the sharing economy? Petr Jehlička takes a critical look at the booming sector and traces its hidden connections and contradictions.
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Nature & Environment
iSpot: Your place to share nature
Global biodiversity is in decline and the spotlight is on all of us to act to help monitor and protect the variety of ecosystems to reduce deterioration. This loss affects ecosystems, species and habitats on which all life on earth depends. What can and should we be doing to help sustain nature?
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Nature & Environment
Biodiversity with The Parks Trust
Ensuring outside areas have a good variety of plants and wildlife is crucial for ecosystems to thrive.