The Not-for-Profit Economy
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 …
Course: Taking on the Climate Crisis with Social Change
Learn more about the Controls of Climate on Geological Timescales
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 …
Climate Change Solutions
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 …
A Note on Ocean Acidification
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 …
Get started and Meet the Course Team!
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 …
Learning Goals
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 …
Learn more about the Nitrogen Cycle
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 …
Learn more about the Phosphorus Cycle
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 …
Learn more about the Carbon Cycle
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 …
Intergenerational Care
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 …
Carbon Dioxide is Forever
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 …
A Living Ecosystem
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 …
Anthropocene: a Human Epoch
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 …
Humanity and Nature
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 …
Humans in the Anthropocene
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 …