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Nature & Environment
A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
How personal awakening can help societal transformation.
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Nature & Environment
TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem
Why might it not be science that holds the key to combatting climate change?
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Education & Development
How can education contribute to sustainability?
What teachers on the Open University MA Education are doing.
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Nature & Environment
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Delegates attending the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in November 2021 were entrusted with leading the global response to humanity’s greatest challenge: how can we stop the world from heating to the point it becomes uninhabitable for future generations?
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History & The Arts
Learning from the past with historic buildings
How can we work with our building traditions to create designs that will last?
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Nature & Environment
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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Nature & Environment
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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Nature & Environment
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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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.