This course aims to explain the repercussions of a warming planet and explore solutions to address climate change. The course covers topics such as reflecting sunlight, clean energy storage, cement production, solar energy, CO2 removal, water usage, renewable energy, animal conservation, food industry impact, and climate change misconceptions. Learners will develop an understanding of climate-related issues, solutions, and their implications. The teaching method includes explanatory videos and visual content. The course is designed for individuals interested in climate change, environmental sustainability, and solutions to mitigate global warming.
Overview
Syllabus
Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?
How to fix clean energy’s storage problem
The big problem with cement, and how to fix it
How solar energy got so cheap
The tricky plan to pull CO2 out of the air
The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers
Who's really using up the water in the American West?
Why beavers matter as the planet heats up
Humans finally figured out how to make it rain
The Italy-Switzerland border is melting
Hog farming has a massive poop problem
Why you don’t hear about the ozone layer anymore
The chicken industry’s worker safety problem
Why nuclear plants are shutting down
How 4 companies control the beef industry
Why heaters are the future of cooling
How decades of stopping forest fires made them worse
Why the US isn't ready for clean energy
How America's hottest city is trying to cool down
What’s killing Minnesota’s moose?
How oysters can stop a flood
Why some animals are shrinking
How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart | 2020 Election
Why beef is the worst food for the climate
Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in Africa
Are Australia’s koalas going extinct? We asked an ecologist.
New York is building a wall to hold back the ocean
The race to save endangered foods
Why your allergies get worse every year
Why you're recycling wrong
How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life
The problems with rebuilding beaches
Watch the US stall on climate change for 12 years
Why chronic floods are coming to New Jersey
Why Atlantic fish are invading the Arctic
How a warmer Arctic could intensify extreme weather
What melting sea ice means for life in the Arctic
Why a storm surge can be the deadliest part of a hurricane
How climate change makes hurricanes worse
Lyme disease is spreading. Blame ticks — and climate change
How dead is the Great Barrier Reef?
The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power
Food waste is the world's dumbest problem
Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness
Going green shouldn't be this hard
Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change
I’m a Tea Party conservative. Here’s how to win over Republicans on renewable energy.
What people get wrong about climate change
Ta Prohm’s haunting ruins are also a 1,000-year-old climate change warning
A visual tour of the world's CO2 emissions
Taught by
Vox
