Climate Action Hands-On: Harnessing Science with Communities to Cut Carbon
RES.ENV-001 · · Non-Credit · January IAP 2017
David Damm-Luhr, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Zeyneb Magavi, Chris Nidel, Nathan Phillips, Audrey Schulman
<p>This course explores how citizen science can support community actions to combat climate change. Participants will learn about framing problems, design ways to gather data, gather some of their own field data, and consider how the results can enable action. Leaks in the natural gas system—a major source of methane emissions, and a powerful contributor to climate change—will be a particular focus.</p> <p>The course was organized by ClimateX and Fossil Free MIT, with support from the National …
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David Damm-Luhr, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Zeyneb Magavi, Chris Nidel, Nathan Phillips, Audrey Schulman. RES.ENV-001 Climate Action Hands-On: Harnessing Science with Communities to Cut Carbon. January IAP 2017. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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