Sustainability, Society and You MOOC starts on 2nd November
October 13, 2015
At the end of September world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to 17 Global Goals which aim to achieve three extraordinary things in all countries in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Fix climate change. How do these …
Take the Sustainability challenge and sign up for a NOOC!
September 25, 2014
We have two online courses starting on Wednesday 8 October for all students and staff of the University of Nottingham who are interested in sustainability. You can choose from: Sustainable and Responsible Business and Perspectives on Sustainability Both can be used to earn credits towards the Nottingham Advantage Award. Sustainable & Responsible Business runs for …
Sustainability, Society & You – still time to join the free online course
June 17, 2014
Sarah Speight writes: We are now underway with the 2nd free public version of Sustainability, Society & You, having finished the 1st run in March 2014. The world hasn’t changed much in three months. The population has continued to grow, more species have become extinct, more rainforest has disappeared and climate-change related disasters have edged …
Welcome to the Anthropocene video
June 4, 2014
Although it’s a couple of years old, this video, made by Owen Gaffney at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), about climate and environmental change is still very relevant – take a look. “Welcome to the Anthropocene” is a film about the state of the planet, which opened the UN’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development in June …
Making the Most of my MOOCing
June 2, 2014
Thom Whiffen (left, in photo below), postgraduate researcher exploring Energy Storage Technologies, will be less involved in our MOOC Sustainability, Society and You this summer as he is busy writing up. Here Thom shares some of his thoughts on his experiences facilitating the first run of the course earlier this year. While aimed at his …
To Frack or not to Frack?
May 30, 2014
Since March 2012, academics from the Schools of Geography, Politics and International Relations and Sociology and Social Policy have been running surveys of public attitudes to shale gas extraction in the UK. The survey has tracked changes in awareness of shale gas, views on the environmental impacts of its extraction and use, as well as …
Living sustainably
May 28, 2014
As someone interested in living sustainably, I subscribe to blogs, Twitter feeds and Pinterest boards of a variety of sustainability-related organisations, firms, and individuals. This way I tend to see a lot of discussion of the details of how to live sustainably, often in the form of steps one can take to move towards a …
Learner reactions to the MOOC: Sustainability, Society and You
April 2, 2014
Sarah Speight has been reflecting on the first run of Sustainability, Society and You (starting for its second time on 16 June). She writes: over 37,000 comments were posted by learners and tutors during the 8 weeks of Sustainability, Society and You. We had our contentious debates: for example over the contribution of the arts …
All MOOC-ed Out!
March 28, 2014
Sarah Speight writes: The University of Nottingham’s inaugural MOOC for the FutureLearn partnership, ‘Sustainability, Society and You’ (SSY) finished a few weeks ago after what seemed like a mammoth 8 weeks. As I write, the second Nottingham MOOC, How to read a Mind, is coming to a close. Sustainability, Society and You was both exciting …
Sustainable buildings
February 21, 2014
Examples of particularly sustainable buildings shared by participants in Sustainability, Society and You, the current MOOC on Futurelearn. Business and commercial flagships The Green Firemen: The first six minutes of this video (link below) shows what one local fireman achieved for his station. This Fire station in North Dublin is now carbon neutral and being …
