Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
GLOBUS Correspondent Lucia Mollea examines the conception and eventual evolution of modern-day sustainable architectural styles.
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TedxWarwick: Ending the plastic epidemic
By Vidushi Goyal TEDxWarwick is one of the largest student-led conferences in Europe that shares ideas worth spreading from people drawing from their personal experiences and inspiring anyone around them. MacRebur is a social enterprise launched by Toby McCartney working towards reducing plastic waste ending up in the ocean through an innovative idea which has been applauded in the startup
Read moreOur Climate Emergency: Our Time Is Now
Our Role: A Call to Arms for Warwick and Beyond
Climate change needs system change – change that starts right here, on our campus. Find out more about PROJECT: Climate Emergency.
Our Climate Emergency: Project Fear?
The Ghost of Humanity’s Future: what do the experts say?
The current state of global climate affairs, and the potentially devastating end of the road for humanity.
Our Climate Emergency: A Tale of Three Doubts
A little more than a kiss: how did we end up like this?
A history of the climate movement, and the key doubts used to combat it.
Happiness: Is there a price? (2/2)
In last week’s article I discussed the ways in which we have attempted to quantify happiness, through the prism of case studies such as Bhutan and its Gross National Happiness index. The study of wellbeing is thought to be relatively new, but the challenge of quantifying wellbeing has been something which economists, philosophers and psychologists have been attempting to solve
Read moreChinese Imperialism: A Knife in the Back of Sustainable Development
Bismarck remarked after the Berlin Conference of 1885 that “he who controls Africa will control Europe”. This chauvinistic war cry came to define the 19th and 20th Century ‘Scramble for Africa’, with European powers waging battle for imperial control over African nations. The flag bearer of this hypermasculine discourse, however, is decentralising from Europe: imperialism has assumed a new form.
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