Creating sustainable futures/CSF101/ Outline


 * Inspiring challenge of sustainable development
 * Startup
 * Start here
 * About


 * Course guide
 * Orientation
 * Course aims and learning outcomes
 * Welcome video
 * Syllabus
 * Setting up your learning journal
 * Recommended resources
 * Course developers


 * Interactions
 * Course announcements
 * How announcements work
 * Instructions for getting ready
 * Instructions for session 1
 * Instructions for session 2
 * Instructions for session 3
 * Instructions for session 4
 * Instructions for the assignment
 * Course feed


 * Assignment
 * Course assignment Level 5 / 1st year
 * Marking schedule Level 5 / 1st year


 * Learning Pathways
 * Sustainability is entirely possible
 * Overview
 * Video signpost
 * Case for transformation
 * The desired and ideal future is already possible
 * Kalundborg Symbiosis
 * Living buildings
 * Start - Sustainability challenge
 * Tasks - Sustainability challenge
 * Outputs - Sustainability challenge
 * Understanding systems
 * Overview
 * Video signpost
 * What are systems and systems thinking?
 * Systems and unintended consequences
 * Using a systems approach to foster sustainability
 * Systems thinking and a unifying framework for strategic sustainability
 * Applying the Five Level Framework to smaller systems
 * Start - Understanding systems challenge
 * Tasks - Understanding systems challenge
 * Outputs - Understanding systems challenge
 * From the Holocene to the Anthropocene
 * Overview
 * Video signpost
 * How the Earth works
 * The Earth is an open and closed system
 * Matter changes form, but never disappears
 * All materials disperse and spread out if not contained
 * How the biosphere works
 * Geological and geochemical cycles
 * Start - Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
 * Tasks - Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
 * Outputs - Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
 * Defining sustainability and sustainable development
 * Overview
 * Video signpost
 * Models to define sustainability and sustainable development
 * A model aligned with our reality
 * How the human social system works
 * Basic human needs
 * Maslow - hierarchy of human needs
 * Needs drive human behaviour
 * Trust - the thread for weaving a good world
 * Defining sustainable development and sustainability
 * The Brundtland Commission definition
 * The Natural Step - System conditions for sustainable human activity
 * Summary - a scientific definition of success for humans
 * Start - Sustainable development challenge
 * Tasks - Sustainable development challenge
 * Outputs - Sustainable development challenge