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96 Months To Save The World

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · General News, Philosophy, Science And Nature

Prince Charles gives us 96 months to save our world from global warming. Giving this year’s Dimbleby Lecture, the Prince of Wales said, ”If we fail the Earth, we fail humanity.” Placing the blame squarely on the unfairness in the world economy, he went on to say,  ”We are standing at a moment of substantial transition where [...]

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OU Call for Volunteers

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Examples of Online Learning, General News, Lifelong Learning, Science And Nature

Centre for Human Ecology graduate Helen Jeans has been running an exciting new project which needs participants! Would you like to get involved?
Helen writes: “The Open University is developing a new Internet site to support collaborative learning called SocialLearn. The pilot version of SocialLearn is focused on climate change as part of the Open University’s Learning to Live with Climate [...]

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