Humans as a Geological Force
This video was filmed on location at Gärstad Recycling Centre in Linköping, Sweden. Surrounded by mountains of plastic garbage, Christina Fredengren explains how humans have become a major geological force, …
Course: Taking on the Climate Crisis with Social Change
Discovery of Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
Joseph Black was a chemist working in Edinburgh during the Enlightenment. In a paper which was first published in 1755, Joseph Black describes an experiment he did on a substance …
Learning Goals
In this activity we present the Planetary Boundaries and Donut Economics – that together aim to define a safe and just operating space for humans on our planet. With these …
Learning Goals
In this activity we will look at tipping points, because crossing these has big impacts for a very long time. You may have come across the term tipping points? If …
Learn more about Positive Feedbacks
Ongoing global warming destabilizes Earth’s climate. This animations shows how the carbon we released by burning fossil fuels, cement production and land use change, part of which ended up in …
Learn more about the Great Acceleration
The “Great Acceleration” refers to the growth of the human enterprise (the collective or our actions) on planet Earth which began gathering speed after 1950. Based on real world observations, …