sustainable consumerism

Courses tagged with "sustainable consumerism"

Tackling ecological and social injustice together: how early years practitioners and young children can respond to the climate crisis alongside non-human creatures and the material world around them.
From synthetic polymers to recycling and up-cycling.

Acting alone is as important as acting together.

Category: Economics
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Reduce means reducing your use of items that lead to waste. Since 2000, amounts of e-waste have grown from 20 million to 50 million tonnes per year.
Life on Earth is a collective force, generated from all living creatures, characterised by their diversities, differences and similarities.
Responding to the climate crisis can feel overwhelming. There are so many things we can do to be greener that it's hard to know where to start. 
Ann Storr explores simple options to tackle food waste.
Sisters Against Plastic (Mary and Theresa) are ‘normal people’ who noticed just how much plastic they were using.
Jo Hand explores carbon footprints and how we can all make an environmental impact.
Jen Gale explores the idea of leading a sustainable(ish) lifestyle.
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 wastes, such as carbon emissions, across the whole product lifecycle.