--- title: Sustainability & Green Tech description: This field focuses on developing and applying technology to conserve natural resources and reduce environmental impact. Learners will understand renewable energy systems, waste management technologies, and sustainable manufacturing processes to design eco-friendly solutions. category: sciences subcategory: earth-and-environmental-science difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/sustainability-and-green-tech --- # Sustainability & Green Tech This field focuses on developing and applying technology to conserve natural resources and reduce environmental impact. Learners will understand renewable energy systems, waste management technologies, and sustainable manufacturing processes to design eco-friendly solutions. ## Available Resources 3 Courses • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. The Shift Project French think tank publishing research and scenarios for decarbonising the economy, covering energy, transport, digital technology and health. Its sector transition plans and reports on the carbon footprint of digital infrastructure are widely cited in European policy debate. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://theshiftproject.org/ **Tags:** energy-transition, decarbonization, climate-policy, digital-carbon-footprint, think-tank ### 2. 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. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://drawdown.org **Tags:** websites, science-research, earth-science ### 3. 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. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://usgbc.org **Tags:** websites, science-research, environmental-science ## Courses ### 1. 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). **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainability **Tags:** sustainability, environmental-policy, ecosystems, environmental-economics ### 2. Sustainable Development Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University walks through fifteen modules on poverty, planetary boundaries, health, food systems, cities, and climate. Finishing it, you can explain the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the economics behind each target. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-development **Tags:** courses, science-research, environmental-science ### 3. Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management This course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops. This is the aim of the Circular Economy, but it doesn’t happen on its own. It is the result of choices and strategies by suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers and all of us as consumers. In addition to providing many cases of managing materials for sustainability, the course also teaches skills and tools for analyzing circular business models and promotes development of your own ideas to become more involved in the transition to a Circular Economy. You will learn from expert researchers and practitioners from around Europe as they explain core elements and challenges in the transition to a circular economy over the course of 5 modules: Module 1: Materials. This module explores where materials come from, and builds a rationale for why society needs more circularity. Module 2: Circular Business Models. In this module circular business models are explored in-depth and a range of ways for business to create economic and social value are discussed. Module 3: Circular Design, Innovation and Assessment. This module presents topics like functional materials and eco-design as well as methods to assess environmental impacts. Module 4: Policies and Networks. This module explores the role of governments and networks and how policies and sharing best practices can enable the circular economy. Module 5: Circular Societies. This module examines new norms, forms of engagement, social systems, and institutions, needed by the circular economy and how we, as individuals, can help society become more circular. This course is brought to you by: LUND UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS (IIIEE) EIT RAWMATERIALS VITO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS GHENT UNIVERSITY DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 5 weeks of study, 5-8 hours per week. You may transfer to later sessions to extend the course. | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/circular-economy **Tags:** courses, science-research, climate-action ## Podcasts ### 1. Sustainability Defined **Author:** Nethra Rajendran and Cecilia Rios Explainer podcast in which each episode defines one sustainability concept with a guest expert, drawn from seven sectors: energy, cities, natural environment, transportation, business, policy and social issues. Listeners build a working vocabulary of sustainability ideas and the research behind them. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.sustainabilitydefined.com **Tags:** sustainability, renewable-energy, sustainable-cities, environmental-policy, sustainable-business ### 2. Sustainable World Radio **Author:** Jill Cloutier Interview podcast hosted by Jill Cloutier since 2004 with permaculture designers, ecologists, herbalists and earth-repair practitioners, covering permaculture ethics, regenerative gardening, fungi, ethnobotany and ecosystem restoration, giving listeners practical examples of designing with natural systems. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.sustainableworldradio.com **Tags:** permaculture, regenerative-agriculture, ethnobotany, earth-repair, organic-gardening --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/sustainability-and-green-tech