Module 8: Think Resilience – Explore the interrelated crises of the 21st century


Ecologise has consistently driven home that humanity needs to prepare for unprecedented environmental, economic and socio-political upheaval and uncertainty in the 21st century. In this new series, we showcase free short-duration online courses that focus on these various emerging crises and possible responses. Created by the world’s leading universities, they offer a good starting point to explore these complex challenges.

Note: The courses listed below have been selected from a large and growing list of free online courses, aimed at learners of all levels, and available in various formats. We urge the reader to explore the various options on offer online before selecting one that suits you.

CONVERGING CRISES 101
Free online courses to understand the key challenges of our times

Module 8: Think Resilience – 22 short videos that explore the interrelated crises of the 21st century

Think Resilience
22 short videos that explore the interrelated crises of the 21st century
Created and hosted by: Post Carbon Institute
Taught by: Richard Heinberg

We live in a time of tremendous political, environmental, and economic upheaval. What should we do?

Think Resilience is an online course to help you get started on doing something. It consists of 22 video lectures—about four hours total—by Richard Heinberg, one of the world’s foremost experts on the urgency and challenges of transitioning society away from fossil fuels. View the introductory video here, or scroll down for more information.

Think Resilience is offered by Post Carbon Institute and based on our years of work in energy literacy and community resilience. We’ve packed a lot of information into four hours, and by the end of the course you’ll have good start on two important skills:

  1. How to make sense of the complex challenges society now faces. What are the underlying, systemic forces at play? What brought us to this place? Acting without this understanding is like putting a band-aid on a life-threatening injury.
  2. How to build community resilience. While we must also act in our individual lives and as national and global citizens, building the resilience of our communities is an essential response to the 21st century’s multiple sustainability crises.

 

You can take Think Resilience at your own pace in the Self-Directed Course. Or, you can participate in a six-week Guided Course facilitated by Richard Heinberg in live webinar sessions (the next Guided Course has not yet been scheduled; if you’d like to know when it is available, add yourself to the notification list).

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CONVERGING CRISES 101
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Module 1: Climate Change – Challenges and Solutions  

Module 2: Energy – Fossil Fuels And Our Future

Module 3: Water – Scarcity, Contamination, Conservation 

Module 4: Soil Fertility & Food Security 

Module 5: Biodiversity & Species Extinction

Module 6: Exploring Sustainability in the Indian Context

Module 7: Environmental justice

 

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