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Sustainable Energy: Design a Renewable Future
by Arno Smets , Additional Instructors- 0.0
9 Weeks
Learn how to make the transition to 100% renewable energy from wind, solar and biomass for electricity, heat and fuels for a sustainable future. A transition to sustainable energy is needed for our climate and welfare. Assess energy use and the potential for energy reduction for transport, industry and buildings Design a plan for a 100% sustainable energy system...
$50
Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace
by Carl Bruch , David Jensen , Richard Matthew , Marc Levy- 0.0
8 Weeks
Natural resources and the environment as a vehicle for peace. Conflicts over natural resources and the environment are among the greatest challenges in 21st-century geopolitics. These conflicts present serious threats to human security at both the national and local levels. Environmental peacebuilding has emerged as a new frontier in interdisciplinary studies....
$49
Sustainable Development: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
by Hani Sewilam- 0.0
5 Weeks
Securing the supply of water, energy, and food is one of the greatest global challenges of our time. Learn all about sustainable development and global changes in this course. This course focuses on sustainable development and global changes - vital issues for humanity. The course is an introduction to sustainable development and its relation to the Water-Energy-Food Nexus....
$49
Forest Monitoring with CLASlite
by Greg Asner , Rajnish Khanna- 0.0
1 Weeks
Welcome to the world’s first online course for deforestation and forest degradation mapping. This course is designed to equip users with the knowledge needed to monitor forests using the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System-lite or CLASlite. The course provides the scientific basis for each module in CLASlite, along with other information to make forest monitoring easy using Earth observing satellite data....
Hyperloop: Changing the Future of Transportation
by Bart Meeuwissen , Dirk Ulijn , Charlotte Meerstadt , Just Herder- 0.0
6 Weeks
Learn the fundamentals, feasibility and potential of this revolutionary mode of transportation, which is as fast as an airplane with the ease and energy of a train system. Is Hyperloop really worth the hype? Is this passenger pod levitating in a vacuum tube a viable alternative to curb the environmental impact of current modes of transport?...
$50
Air pollution: causes and impacts
by Véronique Riffault , Laurent Alleman , Esperanza Perdrix , Manolis Romanias- 0.0
3 Weeks
This MOOC focuses on issues related to air quality. Learn the basics of air pollution and its environmental, health, social and economical effects to better understand and address this problem. Air pollution is a major and global concern, arising for the most part from human activities. They alter the air we breathe and have clear negative effects on our health....
$49
Natural Disasters
by John Gyakum , John Stix- 0.0
11 Weeks
Learn the science behind different types of natural disasters and our ability, or inability, to control and predict these events. No region on Earth is immune from natural disasters. As we gain scientific understanding into the causes and nature of such phenomena, we become better able to mitigate the effects of disasters....
$49
EUCalc - Pathway Finder to a low-carbon EU-society
by Patricia Osseweijer , Herman Russchenberg- 0.0
6 Weeks
Learn how to use a new tool that calculates how adaptations in technology and behavior can impact greenhouse gas emissions and make other impacts. There are many suggestions and various policies and actions to combat climate change and achieve decarbonization but how do we know which ones will be most beneficial?...
$50
Sensing Planet Earth – Water and Ice
by Thomas Hobiger , Anders Berg , Gisela Carvajal , Leif Eriksson- 0.0
5 Weeks
Where do we find water on our planet? Should we worry about rising sea levels? Can we predict climate change? Learn how to measure and monitor the Earth’s water and ice masses. Global warming. Rising sea levels. Droughts. Flooding. The melting of the polar ice caps. This will prepare you to make evidence-based decisions for a sustainable future....
$49
Our Energetic Earth
by Samiha Tahseen , Jingya Xing , Bryan W. Karney- 0.0
4 Weeks
Learn how our world’s energy forces – from wind and waves to storms and currents – animate the Earth’s surface and allow our planet to support life. This course traces how the remarkable concept called energy is the natural way of describing, understanding and unifying these diverse phenomena. Learn more. How much time will the course take?...