Staying home? 5 free online courses about sustainable development

Are you staying at home due to the Current Corona Virus situation? Do you feel like you have extra time that you are willing to use productively?

Well, there are lots of activities you can do at home, but in this article, we introduce you to 5 free online courses about sustainability.

Hopefully, you will choose the most interesting one and start learning today.

1. Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities by LUND Univeristy

How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures? This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy.

This course provides key examples of activities to promote sustainable cities in Scandinavia, Europe and around the world. We utilize films and reports by WWF, the Economist Intelligence Unit, ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, UN-Habitat, C40 Climate Leadership Group, Arup, Sustainia, the Rockefeller Foundation, and ongoing research projects. T

2. Strategy and Sustainability by IESE Business School

Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money. Sustainability is about protecting the planet.

Business is measured in months and quarters. Sustainability often requires significant short term costs to secure a sometimes uncertain long-term benefit. To some activists, all executives are exploitative, selfish one-percenters. To some executives, all activists are irresponsible, unyielding extremists. And yet engaging with the issue isn’t optional — all businesses must have a strategy to deal with sustainability and, like any strategy, this involves making choices.

And yet engaging with the issue isn’t optional — all businesses must have a strategy to deal with sustainability and, like any strategy, this involves making choices.

3. Circular Economy — Sustainable Materials Management

Lund University offers a free online course on the Circular Economy.

This course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops. This is the aim of the Circular Economy, but it doesn’t happen on its own. It is the result of choices and strategies by suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers and all of us as consumers. Every consumer plays a major role, that’s why this course focuses on this topic.

In addition to providing many cases of managing materials for sustainability, the course also teaches skills and tools for analyzing circular business models and promotes the development of your own ideas to become more involved in the transition to a Circular Economy. If you want to learn more about it and start doing your own business in this sector, this is a great chance to use your opportunity.

Don’t forget that you will be able to learn the lecturers from all around the world and this is a great chance to gain more theoretical experience.

4. Tech for Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving the SDGs by SDG Academy

Tech for Good will be an interesting course for anyone who is interested in how digital technologies are empowering billions of people around the world by providing access to education, healthcare, banking, and government services; and how “big data” is being used to inform smarter, evidence-based policies to improve people’s lives in fundamental ways.

Ultimately, Tech for Good looks at the ways in which stakeholders are coming together to answer big questions about what our future will look like in a hyper-digitized world.

5. Fashion and Sustainability: Understanding Luxury Fashion in a Changing World

This is a perfect opportunity to learn from the instructors of London College of Fashion, UAL, which is a world leader in fashion design, media and business education. Enroll the course and Get an introduction to sustainable fashion design, research and business practice.

So spend your time wisely and start your favorite online course to get more knowledge and gain a huge experience. This is your chance! Don’t let it go!

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