Library of Resources
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- Voluntary Simplicity Discussion Activity
- Voluntary Simplicity and Consumerism Discussion Activity.
- Energy Issues: Powering A Bright Future Discussion Activity and Powering A Bright Future Discussion Activity on Energy Issues.
- Climate Change: - Change is Our Choice Discussion Activity and Climate Change Discussion Activity
- Seeing systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability Issues: Seeing Systems: Peace, Justice and Sustainability Discussion Activity and "Seeing Systems" Discussion Activity on Peace, Justice and Sustainability Issues.
- Food, Ethics and Sustainability Discussion Activity: Hungry for Change Discussion Activity and Food, Ethics and Sustainability Discussion Activity.
- Explore the UN SDGs library of resources related to each of the 17 SDGs.
- The CSO website has statistical publications and infographics based on publicly available data relating to the UN SDGs. Here teaching staff can access material for class projects, discussions, and research work.
- Our World in Data is a comprehensive database on a broad range of environmental and social issues.
- The SDG Tracker Tool is dedicated to tracking global and country-specific progress on the SDGs, and allows users to access dynamic maps, tables and charts.
- Bringing Data to Life is a flip book that collects and showcases the faces and stories behind the data found in global figures on the SDGs.
- Dollar Street - this interactive resource allows users to see how families from across the World live, on different levels of income.
- Systems thinking - This collection of key insights and tools explores how to develop and advance a systems mindset for dealing with complex problem solving and transitioning to the circular economy.
- Creating the Big Shift – System Innovation for Sustainability. We need a big shift in systems to create a sustainable future. This guide shows us practical steps that help to shift the system.
Welcome to the Anthropocene - the concept:
Lifecycle of a T-shirt - resource use and pollution:
Red Alert - How to meet the Sustainable Development Goals together:
Sir David Attenborough Presents: Breaking Boundaries - The Science of Our Planet:
Remembering climate change - a message from the year 2071: Coming to us from 50 years into the future, sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the 'history' of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. This is a very good example of futures thinking - imagining the futures which then helps us to design our business or other activities in order to get to that preferred future.
Tackling Plastic Waste:
Circularity in food, six short stories:
How circularity tackles climate change:
Circular Built Environment Principles:
Circular Supply Chain:
Design and the circular economy:
Circular Economy for Plastics:
Circular Cities:
Circular Fashion:
Circular Policy:
Futures Thinking - This video from Kantar outlines key futures thinking principles:
- Water footprint calculator: Find your footprint
- The Carbon Hero Carbon Calculator is a five-minute test with questions divided in three sections: Housing, Travel and Consumption. Users can calculate their own carbon footprint and get tips on reducing their carbon footprint.
- Food packaging scavenger hunt
- Personal sustainable behaviour bingo cards
- Planet Bootcamp, pledge green activities
- SDG Downloadable board game, instructions and question cards (5 per goal)
- SDG spin and question cards: This version uses one set of original cards, and a digital randomness widget. In this version, you have to print the cards and arrange them according to the numbers. Students take their turn spinning the wheel and answer the question about a selected goal.
- Outrage & Optimism - Podcast - Climate justice and racial justice with David Lammy
- Outrage & Optimism - Podcast - Climate justice is social justice with Isra Hirsi