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Abbasi, K. (2020). Covid-19: Questions of conscience and duty for scientific advisers. BMJ, 369. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2102
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ec.europa.eu ec.europa.eu
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European Semester Spring Package. (n.d.). [Text]. European Commission - European Commission. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_901
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Dunford, J. (2020, May 28). ‘Things have to change’: Tourism businesses look to a greener future. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/may/28/things-had-to-change-tourism-businesses-look-to-a-greener-future
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- May 2020
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wiki.mozilla.org wiki.mozilla.org
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science.sciencemag.org science.sciencemag.org
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Rosenbloom, D., & Markard, J. (2020). A COVID-19 recovery for climate. Science, 368(6490), 447–447. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc4887
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www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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close off parts of the city to traffic and open them up for exercise
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Modern cities weren’t designed to cope with life during a pandemic, and this upside-down way of living has turned them into “a disorganised array of disconnected bedrooms and studios”
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- Feb 2020
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blog.engrxiv.org blog.engrxiv.org
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which they estimate to be $230,000 per year.
There is some good discussion on HN about the realistic nature of this estimated expense and how it is not likely out-of-line with what it should be and may actually be quite reasonable.
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fivethirtyeight.com fivethirtyeight.com
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scientific laboratories create an amazing amount of plastic waste, consume large amounts of water, create risks from hazardous chemicals and use significantly more energy
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- Jan 2020
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feelthebern.org feelthebern.org
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We must stop building new nuclear power plants, and find a real solution to our existing nuclear waste problem.
We urgently need a debate to discuss and rethink this idea against nuclear energy. I strongly opine that nuclear power generation will be necessary at-least in the short term during the transition into clean energy, hopefully eventually leading to purely sustainable energy and minimizing nuclear energy.
This article expresses the same point and points out to the German experience of not being able to contain carbon emmissions despite going green energy sans nuclear - https://theweek.com/articles/862988/what-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-wrong-about-nuclear-power
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- Dec 2019
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Their model also raises the question of scale: unlike Facebook, whose mission has always been to accommodate and connect everyone, everywhere, Low Tech supports the idea that a website can serve a small community connected through common interests. The Internet's global accessibility has lead us to think on a massive scale, but a community that lacks physical proximity can still be “local” in mindset.
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Perhaps because it was conceived as a utopia, we tend to think of the internet as a limitless superhighway, a virtual mirror free from the constraints of our physical world. Data, files, our work, our memories, all float up to the cloud and are called down to attention by what seems to be magic. Yet in reality, life online is governed by the same limits to growth affecting the rest of our world. According to Low Tech Magazine the entire World Wide Web is responsible for consuming 10% of all global electricity production, a rate that is exponentially increasing.
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- Nov 2019
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Local file Local file
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Theexhaustion of forest cover by aboutad1000 obliged iron smelters to usecoal instead of charcoal in coke-burning blast furnaces.
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- Oct 2019
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openedconference.org openedconference.org
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a range of business models
I think Hypothes.is plays a very important role in democratising these discussions. The real places where these decisions are made are often closed off to faculty and students. We need to have serious discussions about which sustainability models are appropriate for education not just the businesses. What is sustainable for education may not always be sustainable for business!
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www.annualreviews.org www.annualreviews.org
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The Politics of Sustainability and Development
This reading is to help you better understand the role and importance of literature review. Literature review connects us to a bigger community of scientists who study the same research topic, and helps us build up, illustrate, and develop our theory (what is happening between the IV and the DV?) and research design (how one plans to answer the RQ).
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- Apr 2019
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sites.evergreen.edu sites.evergreen.edu
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The first week of class was pretty similar to most first weeks of a programs I have experienced. However, this program was a little more hectic due to the fact that we have so many programs trying to do so many different and connected things. The moment that stood out the most to me was how much work was accomplished in 8 short hours by the MTA changemakers, this was impressive and inspiring to me. I participated in a similar group last quarter. In that program we had weeks to get the point that they got to in an afternoon.
You know, upon reading the textbook Networks, Crowds, and Markets, I came to see that when networks are first formed, they tend to be hectic and that there is a scram for connections in order to get a project or anything started. However, as time goes by and the networks began to get familiarized with themselves, I found that they start to form groups that are more stable and cohesive with one another and will start building up momentum in order to build something great. However, this comes with the understanding of trust and mutual bonds and without it, it will not become a teampreneurship but instead it becomes just a regular classroom setting that is just doing a series of movements on various different projects. Thus, through reading your blog and other people's blogs, I came to see that there is a stage in which teampreneurship must go through in order to be called teampreneurship and this goes the same with any enterprises. Guess it is the key towards understanding sustainability.
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- Feb 2019
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outline.com outline.com
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So, the UN forecasting model inputs three things: fertility rates, migration rates, and death rates. It doesn’t take into account the expansion of education for females or the speed of urbanization (which are in some ways linked). The UN says they’re already baked into the numbers. But when I went and interviewed [the demographer] Wolfgang Lutz in Vienna, which was one of the first things we did, he walked me through his projections, and I walked out of the room gobsmacked. All he was doing was adding one new variable to the forecast: the level of improvement in female education. And he comes up with a much lower number for global population in 2100, somewhere between 8 billion and 9 billion.
Makes sense
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- Jan 2019
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programminghistorian.org programminghistorian.org
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Interesting resource.
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- Nov 2018
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while we like to scoff at all the mucky-muck bureaucracy around training, budgets, policy and messaging, it’s precisely that stuff that prevents your dream initiative of today morphing into rotting infrastructure of tomorrow. It’s all too easy in this business to end up the new interactive whiteboard — bought one year as the must-have accessory and abandoned the next.
Good reminder of how essential it is to take time from the evangelism of OER to write and enact some policy to ensure sustainability of our OER efforts.
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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Individuals are most creative when provided space to follow their interests without sanction, when support and guidance are readily available, and when social community is fostered.
"Support and guidance" is tricky. They're not binaries that are or are not available; they're large matrices of forms and degrees.
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My work, rooted in both theory and practice, reveals three things that are essential to bringing individuals into the circle of change: autonomy, guidance, and a sense of social community, or working toward a larger meaningful goal.
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- Sep 2018
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motherboard.vice.com motherboard.vice.com
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Apple says that they intend to move to all recycled materials. But they won't let recyclers repair their products for reuse.
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- Aug 2018
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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ATD sustainability
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- Jul 2018
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
- Mar 2018
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pkp.sfu.ca pkp.sfu.ca
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Most do not contribute anything back to PKP
Consider working with the 2.5% Commitment group. They are leading a movement to organize libraries to direct some of their funding to support open infrastructure.
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- Dec 2017
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www.ecowatch.com www.ecowatch.com
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A study from Finland's Leppeenranta University of Technology and Berlin-based Energy Watch Group claims that the entire world could transition to 100% renewable electric power by 2050.
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- Nov 2017
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ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org
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Average land use area needed to produce one unit of protein by food type, measured in metres squared (m²) per gram of protein over a crop'sannual cycle or the average animal's lifetime. Average values are based on a meta-analysis of studies across 742 agricultural systems andover 90 unique foods.
Beef is nearly 6 times the impact of Pork.
This is worth referring to in the background section to provide context, on why you need more than just changes to the web
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scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu
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We invite all scientists to endorse this global environmental article and engage with a new alliance concerned about global climate and environmental trends
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- Feb 2017
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www.space10.io www.space10.io
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Free open source plans for "The Growroom," a spherical urban garden structure large enough to walk through. Requires plywood, screws, and access to a CNC machine to cut the plywood.
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- Oct 2016
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www.rmi.org www.rmi.org
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Study on Campus Climate Initiatives
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www.iea.org www.iea.org
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The International Energy Agency said today that it was significantly increasing its five-year growth forecast for renewables thanks to strong policy support in key countries and sharp cost reductions. Renewables have surpassed coal last year to become the largest source of installed power capacity in the world.
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- Sep 2016
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A local company named AeroFarms has built what it says is the world's largest indoor vertical farm, without the use of soil or sunlight.
Its ambitious goal is to grow high-yielding crops via economical methods to provide locally sourced food to the community, protect the environment and ultimately even combat hunger worldwide.
"We use about 95 percent less water to grow the plants, about 50 percent less fertilizer as nutrients and zero pesticides, herbicide, fungicides," said David Rosenberg, co-founder and chief executive officer of AeroFarms.
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- Jun 2016
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But EEI, its member utilities, Koch-backed groups, and their corporate and conservative allies have been lobbying states, sometimes successfully, to eliminate net metering or otherwise reduce the financial incentives for clean home power generation. When they succeed, people with solar leases could end up with less in savings on their electricity bill than the cost of renting their solar array. EEI’s letter feigns concern for these consumers — an impressively cynical maneuver, as it’s the very group leading the push to raise those consumer costs.
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- Apr 2016
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blog.jonudell.net blog.jonudell.net
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Beavers are great for water conservation: they create ponds by damming creeks, and they also dig to make them deeper.
We could be collecting the rain water that flows off our roofs (and also elsewhere), but very few people do -- at least not in the US.
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europetomorrow.org europetomorrow.org
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- Mar 2016
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www.carrapateirasurf.com www.carrapateirasurf.com
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We visited this project as part of the project Travel for Transition.
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- Feb 2016
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aeon.co aeon.co
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John Quiggin points out that we have consumption peaks, as well as production peaks. Coal, oil, steel, and paper usage per person have all declined. If I understand him, then the per person rates have declined enough to create a decline in total consumption, in spite of population growth.
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- Dec 2015
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twitter.com twitter.com
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IPCC: Solar & biomass produce 3.5 - 21 times more carbon emissions (eq.) per kilowatt-hour than nuclear & wind.
Is this right? If so, that's disappointing for solar. But it shows wind as lower CO2 than nuclear. (And the chart doesn't show fossil fuels. Is solar favorable compared to them?)
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- Nov 2015
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www.onthecommons.org www.onthecommons.org
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Elinor Ostrom shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her work on governance of the commons -- finite resources shared by a community. She studied such communities, and derived eight principles, which are summarized on this page and on Wikipedia.
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cms.whittier.edu cms.whittier.edu
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Such self-management oftenworks well, but it is also contingent uponthe costs and complexities of spare parts andrepairs, as well as the underlying economiccohesion of the neighborhood—in terms ofits ability to hold on to specific values anduses of land and the demographic stabilityof its inhabitants.
All pieces of the puzzle must come together in order for infrastructure to remain stable. If someone does not have the right tools or access to information, they are helpless to sustain the power of the infrastructure.
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- Oct 2015
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cms.whittier.edu cms.whittier.edu
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this process played a crucial role in stabilizing global capitalism after 1945
around this time, the US was pretty self-sustainable
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- Sep 2015
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www.appropedia.org www.appropedia.org
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Excited to see hypothesis on Appropedia! We have over 300 thousand edits on thousands of pages. So terrible. For instance, this front page is fairly ugly.
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