The Not-for-Profit Economy Any economy is organized to achieve certain goals. Our present-day for-profit economy is organized to achieve the goal of making money for business owners. It is good …
This video shows an illustration of the 3 factors which control Earth’s climate on geological timescales. Earth becomes warmer if it receives more heat from the Sun. The Sun is …
There are 3 types of climate change solutions. Emissions Reductions Natural Climate Solutions Technical Climate Solutions Technical Climate Solutions Technical climate solutions need to stand for 10% of the solution …
As we have seen in previous activities, global emissions of carbon dioxide are increasing and these anthropogenic emissions are disturbing the global carbon cycle. The oceans are the largest carbon …
Welcome to Taking on the Climate Crisis with Social Change! Introduction This 3 week course comprises 9 one-hour activities. In these activities, we will approach the climate crisis from perspectives …
This activity presents the “Great Acceleration”. The Great Acceleration refers to the growth of human actions and impacts on the planet that accelerated after 1950. This is based on observed …
This video shows a graphical illustration of the nitrogen cycle. The atmosphere contains a massive 3 900 000 petagrams of nitrogen. For comparison, the land surface, the oceans and sediments …
This video shows a graphical illustration of the phosphorus cycle. In pre-industrial times, weathering of rocks released, on average, 0.003 petagrams of phosphorus annually. This phosphorus served as a natural …
This video shows a graphical illustration of the fast and slow parts of the carbon cycle. In the pre-industrial slow cycle, on average, 0.1 petagrams of carbon is added to …
How can we think and relate better between generations in the midst of the climate crisis? The Brundtland commission formulated sustainable development as the “development that meets the needs of …
This animation illustrates the longevity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as an example of territorializing the future, a deep time intervention. Humans have now emitted so much carbon dioxide …
In this article we will consider the importance of relating to the environment as a living ecosystem. The Concept of ‘Other’ A history of separating humans from nature has paved …
The Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on …
In this article we will delve deeper into how nature and culture are entangled with each other and how this implies that a human being is always more-than-human. Before doing …
In this article we will look to identify how the Figure of the Human is challenged in the Anthropocene. The human has become a geological actor of planetary scale. In …