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Urban Water - Innovations for Environmental Sustainability
by Karen Bakker- 0.0
4 Weeks
Learn about innovative urban solutions to the global water crisis, with inspiring real-life examples from architects, engineers, planners, ecologists, and artists. Each week, you’ll watch lectures plus a compelling documentary-style video featuring architects, planners, artists, engineers, and academics that have created real-world innovations which link water and sustainability in the built environment....
$50
From Fossil Resources to Biomass: A Business and Economics Perspective
by Arnout Fischer , Emiel Wubben , Justus Wesseler , Argyris Kanellopoulos- 0.0
5 Weeks
Learn about the basic consumer science, business, logistics, supply chain, and economic principles that are essential for a successful transition from fossil resources to renewable biomass resources in a biobased economy. It's especially valuable to have (or ambition to have) a career in industries such as: (bio)chemical industry, agrifood water companies, energy producers, logistics, and related (non-)governmental organizations....
$149
Energy: The Enterprise
by Martin Casstevens- 4.8
Approx. 17 hours to complete
This course provides a broad view of the evolving nature of energy and the influence of cost, availability, sustainability, technical advancements, lifestyle, and concern over the environment. Learners get a peek into our energy history, recent technical and societal advancements in clean energy, and some of the more important adjustments we have seen and will continue to see....
How to Change the World
by Michael S. Roth- 4.6
Approx. 26 hours to complete
This course examines issues concerning poverty, the environment, technology, health care, gender, education and activism to help us understand better how to initiate positive change. Poverty and Development Varieties of Poverty and Development Multi-Pronged Effort: Private Enterprise, Government and Inclusive Growth Climate Change and Sustainability Climate Change and Sustainability Conversation on Energy, Sustainability and Solution Science...
Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems: the Nexus between Water, Energy and Food
by Mario Giampietro , Andrea Saltelli , Tarik Serrano- 4.6
Approx. 23 hours to complete
You will learn to see your community or country as a complex social-ecological system and to describe its water, energy and food metabolism in the form of a pattern, as well as to map the categories of social actors. Jevon’s paradox and the myth of resource efficiency as a solution for sustainability...
First Steps in Making the Business Case for Sustainability
by John Byrd- 4.7
Approx. 15 hours to complete
We hope that with the skills and concepts you gain from this specialization that you will help your business reduce its social and environmental impact. * Evaluate and compare companies’ sustainability activities and products; * Identify key criteria of green businesses and product design; Introduction to Change and Change Agents Lesson 1 - Good First Projects: Energy Savings...
Built environment sustainability assessment
by Javier Orozco-Messana , Elena de la Poza-Plaza , Dai Morgan- 0.0
5 Weeks
The course introduces the basic elements and trends for performing a through built environment assessment and develops the tools for urban sustainability policy impact analysis. The course introduces the basic elements and trends for performing a through built environment assessment and develops the tools for urban sustainability policy impact analysis....
$79
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Microbiomes & Sustainability
by Rafi Rashid , Rajasekhar Balasubramanian , Rohan Williams- 0.0
4 Weeks
The course is an introduction to microbiomes and sustainability. Thus, an interdisciplinary strategy that promotes collaboration and creative problem-solving will also be introduced. Appreciate the role of microbiomes in hosts (humans, animals, plants) and in th environment Explore the concept of sustainability Reflect on the interdisciplinarity required for harnessing microbiome functions for improved sustainability...
$139
Co-Creating Sustainable Cities
by Gert Spaargaren , Ellen van Bueren , Co-creating sustainable cities – Course contributors- 0.0
8 Weeks
Sustainability is thus a result of the interplay between technology, policy and people’s daily lives. Water and waste Energy, air, food and mobility Basic knowledge of sustainability in urban settings, urban environmental technology and urban management is assumed. Different definitions, forms and typical examples of co-creation for developing sustainable urban water, energy and green systems....
$49
Smart Grids: Modeling
by Peter Palensky , Digvijay Gusain , Ibrahim Diab- 0.0
6 Weeks
Learn to build a model of a smart power grid, and to diagnose the effects of disturbances from variable renewable energy resources and intelligent demand on the grid. By modeling smart grids, you will explore the integration of renewable energy sources into a grid, its dynamics, control and cyber security. Simulate a 9-bus grid, with and without variable renewable resources,...
$129