Sustainability

Strategic Planning and Urban Design Foundations

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Explore the basics of urban design. Learn how to create a roadmap for growth and design healthier, more sustainable neighborhoods.Urban designers work with a multidisciplinary team to shape how a city looks and functions, helping to make it a more livable, sustainable, and resilient place for people to live. In this course, join Marc Asnis—an urban designer for the city of Portland, Oregon—as he helps to acquaint you with the basics of urban design. Using Portland as a case study, Marc steps though how to create an urban design framework, which serves as a roadmap for growth and change in a city. Learn how to take your projected growth allocations and guiding principles and translate them into a vision of your desired urban form. This includes the creation of new neighborhoods, public infrastructure investments, green buildings, and more. Armed with these strategic planning and urban design principles, you can start making transformative changes in your own hometown.

Smarter Cities: Using Data to Drive Urban Innovation

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Learn about the future of cities and how smart cities are rising to meet the challenges of rapid urban development. Discover how to start a career in urban innovation.IntroductionWelcome1. Our Future Belongs to CitiesThe big migrationChallenges of rapid urban development2. Rethinking How Cities Are DeliveredOverview of core city functionsThe problem with applying 20th century solutions to 21st century problemsThe amazing opportunity to reinvent our cities3. Building Smarter CitiesWhat is a smart city?Examples of smart cities around the worldPlanning tips for a smart city4. The Role of Data in Driving Urban InnovationData in a city contextWhat is open data?Data and the Internet of Things (IoT)Create urban innovation with dataConclusionNext steps

Renewable Energy and Green Building Entrepreneurship

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Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeWelcome to the course where you learn to launch a new business in the energy, finance, real estate, design, engineering, or environmental sectors, while also helping you create positive environmental and human health impacts around the world.We will integrate tools, trends, and tips from the field of entrepreneurship as a career path for making a difference and generating wealth in the renewable energy and green building sectors.This is not a course about theory. Instead, we focus on real world application, step-by-step advice, and case studies.After completing this course, students will be able to:- Define key business opportunities, challenges, and potential solutions in the renewable energy and green building sectors.- Analyze a successful business in renewable energy or green building.- Identify 2 to 3 problems you might solve with either renewable energy or green building products or services. - Plan for engaging with investors who might finance a new business.- Take real world first steps towards launching a new business or corporate initiative, by applying the 1-page business idea summary template and the Business Model Canvas to generating and refining your own new business ideas.

Logística agrícola sostenible

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De acuerdo con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura - FAO-, se espera que para el 2050 la producción mundial de alimentos aumente en un 60% para alimentar a más de 9.000 millones de personas en todo el mundo. La industria agrícola es el pilar fundamental de la sociedad, por ende, es el centro de la producción económica humana que influye directamente en el desarrollo de un país y actualmente, presenta grandes retos que requieren cambios contundentes, rápidos y prácticos, expande tus conocimientos en logística y cómo el producto viaja del campo a la mesa este curso en línea. En el curso de Logística Agrícola Sostenible, podrás aprender temas relacionados a: agricultura sostenible, buenas prácticas, beneficios en cada eslabón de la red de valor, tendencias tecnológicas y su aplicación, con el fin de apuntar a la sostenibilidad y ser eco - amigables con el medio ambiente.

Sustainable and Affordable Sanitation Solutions For Small Towns: Policy, Planning and Practice

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Instructional designers today have tremendous access to a variety of technology tools while designing e-learning. An important role for instructional designers is to integrate effective pedagogical strategies to promote students’ engagement and learning. This course focuses on learner-centric principles and practices in the design of e-learning in STEM disciplines. Effective strategies and processes based on research from the learning sciences and educational technology will be discussed. Course participants will explore the application of e-learning design in various STEM topics in K-12 and higher education. The course will expose participants to some examples of basic and advanced technologies involved in designing e-learning.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Local academic institutions, Local government agencies. PREREQUISITES:Nil.INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Local academic institutions, Local government agencies

Environment and Development

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The course will consist of theoretical application and environmental knowledge pertaining to sustainable development. The course analyses the reciprocal interaction between the physical environment, the social organization and human behaviour in the context of development. The course will introduce students with an overview of environmental ethics, debates and change and to facilitate their understanding and analysis of the inter-relationship between environment and development issues and apply them to their own experience and work. To enhance the students’ knowledge of the nature of and underlying causes of the most pressing environmental concerns and to understand how these impact on the lives and livelihoods of the local community. To look at the possibilities for environmental regeneration providing an analysis of case studies of local sustainable development initiatives and community based natural resource management. After the successful completion of the course the students will be able to comprehend the complexity and various forms and dimensions of development and environment issues and ground them in current issues and real life experiences.INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG and PG students of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering.

Vers la performance environnementale des produits alimentaires

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À propos du cours Croissance du marché Bio, Labels rouges, produits locaux, sans OGM, vegan, sans gluten, emballages recyclables, chartes de durabilité, marchés publics… le marché alimentaire et les attentes des consommateurs sont en plein chamboulement. Comment transformer ces évolutions en opportunités pour les filières alimentaires? Ce MOOC vous permettra de mieux répondre à ces attentes concernant la durabilité des produits alimentaires. Il vous présentera des outils solides pour structurer vos démarches autour de la performance environnementale et de l’écoconception. Nous réfléchirons à la manière d’intégrer ces nouveaux paramètres dans votre stratégie et vos processus d’innovation. En plus de la présentation des concepts structurants, dont l’Analyse de Cycle de Vie, nous nous appuierons autant que possible sur des experts et des retours d’expérience pour comprendre les clés du succès d’une démarche d’écoconception. Enfin vous saurez comment évaluer ses bénéfices potentiels, trouver des soutiens et faciliter l’engagement de vos partenaires internes ou externes. Au final, pas de recette toute faite, mais un ensemble d’éléments et d’outils qui vous permettront de construire la démarche adaptée à votre structure et votre marché, et qui vous rendra acteur de la transition écologique et alimentaire en cours! Format Le MOOC est découpé en 4 séquences de formation. Chaque semaine, une nouvelle séquence est ouverte afin de rythmer votre apprentissage. Les ressources proposées sont principalement des vidéos de cours et des témoignages d’entreprises, ainsi que des activités pédagogiques: quiz et étude de cas. La charge de travail dépend du parcours choisi: Le premier niveau correspond au parcours "découverte" : il consiste à visionner l'ensemble des contenus du MOOC, et à réaliser les quiz notés de fin de séquence. En obtenant une moyenne de notes supérieure à 60%, vous obtiendrez une attestation de suivi avec succès du MOOC. Compter 1h30 de travail hebdomadaire. Le second niveau correspond au parcours "approfondissement" : il consiste à réaliser le parcours "débutant" ainsi que l'étude de cas fil rouge (activité proposée en fin de chaque séquence). L'étude de cas sera évaluée par les pairs mais ne sera pas notée. Compter 2h à 2h30 de travail hebdomadaire. Le troisième niveau correspond au parcours "autonomie": il consiste à réaliser le parcours "intermédiaire" ainsi qu'un travail de constitution d’un dossier personnel, en lien avec votre activité professionnelle. Ce troisième niveau s'adresse exclusivement à des professionnels du secteur agro-alimentaire. Le travail personnel demandé sera adressé à l'ADEME, et les meilleurs projets pourront bénéficier d'un accompagnement, technique et financier, pour la mise en œuvre de leur démarche. Compter 2h30 à 3h de travail hebdomadaire. Prérequis Ce MOOC est ouvert à tous, mais il a été spécifiquement conçu pour des professionnels ou futurs professionnels du secteur agro-alimentaire : Responsable produit, achat, Qualité-Sécurité-Environnement, R&D et marketing d’entreprises agricoles et agroalimentaires, des coopératives et des instituts techniques (ACTIA, CRIT…) Membres des équipes achats, Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises (RSE), des Marques De Distributeurs (MDD) et des distributeurs Porteurs de marques agroalimentaires, groupements de valorisation, AOC, signes de qualité Formateurs et techniciens en agriculture : Potentiellement porteurs et/ou impliqué dans des démarches d'écoconception Bureau d’étude, consultants innovation, stratégie, RSE/environnement (accompagnant des entreprises dans ce type de démarche) Etudiants (Master 1, Master 2) en cursus agronomie, agro-alimentaire et environnement, et les enseignants / formateurs de ces filières. Retours d'expérience Découvrez les retours d'expérience des salariés de l'entreprise Henaff qui ont suivi la 1ère session du MOOC Équipe pédagogique et intervenants Vincent Colomb ADEME Ingénieur agronome et spécialiste de la performance environnementale des filières agricoles et agro-alimentaires. Actif sur la thématique depuis 10 ans, il travaille à l’ADEME depuis 2013 au développement des bases de données ACV et au soutien de l’écoconception, notamment via l’animation du programme AGRIBALYSE. Son objectif est d’accompagner tous les acteurs du système alimentaire (du producteur au consommateur) afin de mieux comprendre leurs impacts environnementaux et de mettre en place les actions pour les réduire.Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris AgroParisTech, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay Maître de conférences HDR à AgroParisTech, département SESG, UMR GENIAL. Sa recherche porte sur le management de l’innovation et de l’éco-conception au sein des chaines de valeur de la transformation et de la distribution des matières premières issues du vivant. Elle est membre du comité de pilotage d’IDEAS (Initiative for Design in Agrifood Systems), réseau de chercheurs co-porté par l’INRA et AgroParisTech. Ses enseignements interviennent sur les trois années du cursus AgroParisTech et au sein de la formation master Erasmus Mundus Fipdes (Food Innovation Product Design) associant formes d’enseignements classiques et par projets. Cécile Bessou Chercheuse - CIRAD Loïs Moreira Ingénieur conseil Ecoconception - Pôle Ecoconception Aurélie Perrin Ingénieure de recherche - USC GRAPPE INRA-ESA Frédérique Jourjon Directrice de la recherche et valorisation - Ecole Supérieure d'Agriculture (ESA) Julien Coignac Coordinateur Responsabilité Sociétale de l’Entreprise - Groupe Cristal Union Laurence Gouthière Ingénieure en charge de la lutte contre le gaspillage alimentaire - ADEME David Garbous Directeur du marketing stratégique - Fleury Michon Michel Mangion Directeur RSE et Amélioration Continue - Groupe Cristal Union Fabrice Bosque Responsable Environnement et Eco-Industries - ITERG Philippe Rohmer Directeur qualité, sécurité environnement - DAUCY Florence Renard Responsable du Département Nutrition, Santé, Filières Durables - Groupe Casino Contributeurs Florence Godefroy Chef de projet formation - ADEME Arthur Pasquet Etudiant ESA, Stagiaire Master 2 - ADEME Louise Morineau Digital Learning Manager - THINKOVERY Plan du cours Semaine 1: Les enjeux de l'écoconception Semaine 2 : Les outils et méthodes pour mener une démarche d'écoconception Semaine 3: Mettre en oeuvre un projet d'écoconception Semaine 4: Les clés de succès pour une démarche d'écoconception Évaluation Seuls les 4 quiz d’évaluation des connaissances, proposés en fin de semaine, sont notés. En ayant au minimum une moyenne de 60% de bonnes réponses à ces quiz, vous obtiendrez une attestation de suivi avec succès du MOOC. Cette attestation peut vous permettre de valoriser ce MOOC sur votre CV ou auprès de votre employeur. Porteurs de projet Partenaires Avec le soutien de Conditions d'utilisation Conditions d’utilisation du contenu du cours Licence Creative Commons BY NC ND L’utilisateur doit mentionner le nom de l’auteur, il peut exploiter l’œuvre sauf dans un contexte commercial et il ne peut apporter de modifications à l’œuvre originale. Conditions d’utilisation des contenus produits par les apprenants : Licence Creative Commons BY NC ND L’utilisateur peut reproduire la création et la distribuer mais à condition de toujours associer le nom de l’auteur de l’œuvre. Il ne peut se livrer à aucune exploitation commerciale de la création, ni la modifier.

Insights on Photography: Business and Social Media

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Photographer, journalist, and educator Derrick Story shares insights on staying current—with technology, with the changing photographic business climate, and much more.The photographic landscape is always changing: new gear, shifting business models, and more ways to promote your work and your business. How do you keep up? There's no magic formula that works for everyone, but hearing how one photographer has built a career can help you develop a strategy that works for you. In this course, we visit with Derrick Story, a commercial photographer, educator, journalist, and blogger.In a wide-ranging discussion, Derrick talks about his lifelong love of photography and how today's successful photographer needs to leverage multiple business opportunities, with each one feeding the others. For example, to keep up with changing gear, you can blog and/or podcast about new gear as you acquire it; to promote your work and your expertise, you can conduct workshops to teach the areas that you specialize in. He also shows how to take advantage of the social media landscape to build your brand.

Tecnologías para una Producción Agrícola de Bajo Impacto

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Este curso presenta propuestas tecnológicas que permiten hacer un uso estratégico de los recursos naturales, acompañando los procesos naturales, minimizando los impactos negativos sobre el ambiente, incluso recuperando ambientes degradados y posibilitando una producción agrícola sustentable. Se desarrolla en cinco unidades, en las que se presentan los principios y métodos para el manejo de plagas, la descripción y ventajas del uso de insumos biológicos, estrategias como los cultivos de cobertura, la agricultura de precisión, los aportes que hace la biotecnología a la producción sustentable actual y las perspectivas futuras.Así, en conjunto se proponen opciones de manejo probadas, pero fundamentalmente adaptables para la producción de cultivos extensivos.Por otra parte, se ofrece una serie de herramientas, tecnologías accesibles y probadas, para una producción sustentable de alimentos que resulten eficientes en el uso de los recursos naturales, economía del uso de insumos y que generen bienestar para el empleado y productor agropecuario. Al adquirir todas estas habilidades y destrezas podrás formar criterio para seleccionar las mejores prácticas de manejo y gestión de los agroecosistemas.

Introducción al enfoque del proyecto Capital Natural

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Este curso presenta el enfoque del Natural Capital Project (NatCap) para utilizar la información de los servicios del ecosistema para informar decisiones.

Fashion Sustainability: Shaping Fashion’s Future

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On this 10-week course, you’ll learn about the history and values of sustainable development – and why it matters in the fashion industry.Sustainability has become a central concern in modern business – and society at large. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals call for business and government to create a more sustainable future by 2030.With increased awareness of the damage caused by ‘fast fashion’ – and of the climate crisis in general – fashion and luxury goods brands need to fully embrace sustainability.Implement a successful corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy in a fashion brandAlongside fashion thought-leaders at the Institut Français de la Mode and Kering, you’ll identify how to build a practical CSR and sustainability strategy, and how to communicate it to your company’s audience.You’ll explore the contemporary environmental situation, learning about the climate crisis to better inform your own approach to sustainable fashion.You’ll look at key areas such as animal welfare and biodiversity, examining how they intersect with broader social issues such as human rights and inclusiveness, coming away able to practically identify how fashion can be more socially responsibleUnderstand the importance of eco-design and sustainable materials in fashionThe course will encourage you to think about the value chain, leaving you able to recognise how sustainability can be applied to every step of the fashion product lifecycle.You’ll study the principles of eco-design, which materials most lend themselves to sustainability, and what responsible and sustainable retailing looks like.Deliver sustainable innovation for your brandThe fashion industry thrives on innovation and creativity, and there’s no reason this has to be sacrificed with sustainability.Learn more about the future of sustainable fashion, exploring the social innovation of tomorrow, and discover how cutting-edge technologies can drive sustainable change in your business.Study fashion with the Head of Sustainability IFM-Kering Chair at world-renowned Institut Français de la ModeBased in the heart of Paris, the fashion capital of the world, Institut Français de la Mode has been a leading school of fashion management and design for over 30 years.The course is led by Andrée-Anne Lemieux, Sustainability Professor and change leader at the heart of the industry’s transformation.Andrée-Anne Lemieux has over fifteen years of experience in the fashion industry, and specialises in sustainability transformation for new businesses, high street designers, and global corporations.As the Sustainability IFM-Kering chair, she also manages scientific research in the field of sustainability in the fashion and luxury industry. You’ll also gain insights on sustainability fromfashion industry stakeholders at NGOs, and startups, as well as hear from manufacturers and designers on their experiences of sustainability implementation.You will be ready to become a change leader of the current industry’s transformation.When are the assessment deadlines?The next assessment deadlines are as follows:26th September 20225th January 20233rd April 2023You will be able to submit your assessments directly to IFM up to two weeks prior to the deadline.Will I receive feedback on my assessments?Educators will be on hand around the assessment deadline dates to answer any questions you may have in the comments. You will then receive feedback on your assessments one month after the submission deadline.

Measuring Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development is the most important global movement of our time. In 2015, the 193 member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These interconnected Goals aim to end poverty and promote economic prosperity, ensure social equity, and protect the environment. Above all, the 2030 Agenda commits to “leaving no one behind.” How do we know if we are on track to achieve the SDGs? Which Goals should different countries prioritize? And what kind of data do we need to ensure that everyone is counted?Launched in 2015 by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the Sustainable Development Report is the first worldwide study to assess where the world stands with regard to achieving sustainable development. The Report contains the SDG Index and Dashboards, which use a combination of official and unofficial data and indicators to understand each country’s progress on the 17 SDGs.In this short course, you will hear from some of the experts responsible for creating the Sustainable Development Report about the value of measuring progress on the SDGs, and how a tool like the SDG Index and Dashboards helps policymakers and other stakeholders make important decisions about their development priorities. You will examine the different types of data that can be used to measure development progress, and learn the technical steps needed to construct an index for the SDGs. Finally, you will explore regional and city-level indices, and discuss new approaches to SDG measurement and data-based decision-making.

Child Participation and the Right to a Sustainable Environment

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The increasing visibility of climate action campaigns led by young activists strongly indicates that our attention must not be diverted from the environmental emergency that is undermining children’s rights and future prospects around the world. Discussions in these areas typically revolve around the types of children's rights that are most at risk and the protection of children and young people from the harmful effects of climate change and a degraded environment. The call of young activists, instead, expresses the need to go a step further by recognising the many links between a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment and children’s rights to be heard and participate.Such a stand should not be underestimated, especially if considered in the light of existing frameworks relating to both the environment and children’s rights. Whether we look at children’s rights to health and education, or children’s freedom of association and peaceful assembly, or the increasing calls for the recognition of a right to a healthy environment, international standards indicate that the understanding of environmental concerns, enhanced by the full consciousness of children’s right to participate, may improve not only the quality of children’s lives but also the quality of children’s responsive actions, such of those of youth environmental movements.In this light, recent developments such as UN resolutions, reports and summits or civil society campaigns and calls for legal accountability and redress seem to be a step in the ‘right’ direction and provide an empowering context for initiatives organised by children to defend their environmental rights. However, questions still remain: how many children proactively make use of human rights standards in their action against environmental damage? How can we build on the movement initiated by young climate activists to recognise children as direct agents of change? How can climate action be organised, sustained and deployed in a way that upholds children’s rights and the effective participation of children?This MOOC asks children’s rights experts, environment specialists, human rights scholars and young climate activists to examine concepts, standards and practices of rights-based participation of children in environmental matters. Through free and open access to current knowledge and debates, the course speaks to a worldwide audience - and young people specifically - to inform those who are seeking human rights guidance, encourage those who are curious to know more, support those who are already acting, and ultimately boost effective change.

Learning Design for Sustainability

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Our future depends on sustainable solutions. Learn why social, economic, and ecological sustainability is important to design and to our world.The world is facing a number of environmental, economic, and social challenges. Our future depends on sustainable solutions that improve our lives, without adversely affecting our neighbors or our ecosystems. Designers have a unique role to play in the way forward. Watch this course to explore the tools, resources, and best practices of sustainable design. Designer, educator, and author Scott Boylston covers the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of social, economic, and ecological sustainability. He walks through technical and social innovations that are making real change possible, across a variety of disciplines.

الموارد الطبيعيّة للتنمية المستدامة

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‫لمحة عامّة   ‫من شأن الموارد الطبيعيّة أن تقدّم فرصة تحويليّة لدعم التنمية ولكنّها في نهاية المطاف موارد ناضبة. فكيف يمكن للبلدان تحقيق الإفادة القصوى من هذه الفرصة المحدودة، وفي الوقت نفسه إدارة قطاع معقّد مع الحدّ من الآثار على الصعيد المحلّي والمدى الطويل؟ هذه الدورة الإلكترونيّة المفتوحة والمكثّفة الّتي تمتدّ على 12 أسبوعًا، والتي أعدّها معهد حوكمة الموارد الطبيعيّة مع مركز كولومبيا للاستثمار المستدام والبنك الدولي، تلقي الضوء على الجهود الآيلة إلى إدارة الاستثمارات في الصناعات الاستخراجيّة على نحو مستدام. وستمكّنكم من فهم النواحي المعقّدة والمتداخلة لحوكمة الموارد الطبيعية، لتشكّلوا جزءًا من حركة عالميّة من المواطنين والممارسين الملتزمين بتحقيق الآثار التحويليّة‫لمواردنا الطبيعيّة.