Course: Sustainability, Society and You

Improving the sustainability of energy use by applying demand-side measures involves two distinct approaches: Technological Social The technological approach involves installing improved energy conversion (or distribution) technologies that require less …

In this article and the one that follows we examine energy efficiency in the domestic, service, transport and industrial sectors of society. We look at why and how we waste …

Cultural anthropologists and sociologists have long recognised that food fulfils far more than biological need – this is clear from the fact that no society on the planet consumes all …

Watch the video to join Thom as he meets our engineer, Mike Clifford, in the typically British kitchen of Cripps House for a discussion about sustainability at home. Those of …

Please read the article by our geographer Simon Gosling in the PDF below. In this article, Simon introduces the sources of our energy and highlights some of the major issues …

This week we have 3 short videos, all filmed in Cripps House, a 1950s British house on the University Park campus in Nottingham. We chose Cripps House because it can …

In 1992 the International Conference on Water and the Environment was held in Dublin, Ireland. The output from this conference was a declaration regarding water that was presented to the …

2015 has seen some significant pronouncements or policies linking the sustainability and health agendas. Here we briefly look at two of these. The Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change …

To help us relate sustainability to our lives, a number of models have been developed. All of these models are about interconnections – about the relationships between our environment and …

Sustainability is often represented diagrammatically. The figure at the top of this page suggests that there are three pillars of sustainability – economic viability, environmental protection and social equity. Other …

We finish week 1 of the course by considering some of the ethical dimensions of the sustainability agenda. Dr Neil Sinclair, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, challenges us to consider the …