Sustainable Energy
MIT
Learn to critically analyze modern energy technologies from engineering and socio-political perspectives, and gain the skills necessary to help the world meet rising energy demand while reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change
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ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
Official site of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a leading advocate for the circular economy. It hosts research reports, case studies, toolkits, and learning resources that help businesses, policymakers, and educators design and implement regenerative, circular systems.
drawdown.org
Drawdown.org is a hub of evidence-based climate solutions from Project Drawdown. It features profiles and data on 100+ solutions across sectors (energy, land, food, buildings, and more), plus interactive tools, case studies, and policy guidance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
usgbc.org
USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) is a nonprofit advancing sustainable buildings and communities, best known for LEED certification. The site provides LEED info and resources, green-building standards, professional education and certification, case studies, news, and events.
The Shift Project
Energy transition resources
Introduction to Sustainability
This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history. This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: as I describe it in the class text, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management).
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