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Design for Impact (video)
Design is powerful. But if you’re not designing to positively impact humans and the environment, then you shouldn’t be designing. At Nonfiction, we think about systems around the product that we design. Where do the materials come from? How are they being transformed? How do they impact the lives of the people they’re designed for? What…
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6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth
Danielle Wood leads the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to tear down the barriers that limit the benefits of space exploration to only the few, the rich or the elite. She identifies six technologies developed for space exploration that can contribute to sustainable development across the world —…
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What is Sustainable Development?
A simple introduction to sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The film is produced by Animaskin on behalf of UN Association of Norway and UNICEF Norway, as part of an interdisciplinary learning program for students on primary and secondary level.
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The Sustainable Development Goals: 17 Goals to Transform Our World
In September 2015 the United Nations made history – 193 member states unanimously adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): seventeen goals that the world aspires to achieve by 2030. These goals aim to economically develop the world in a way that eliminates poverty, respects planetary boundaries and leaves no one behind. The international community agreed…
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Understanding the Dimensions of Sustainable Development
The 2030 Agenda and its 17 Goals for Sustainable Development are an ambitious commitment of the world community to ensure sustained and economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection. At the heart of the Agenda are 5 critical components: People, Prosperity, Peace, Partnership & Planet. Learn more about the dimensions of the 2030 Agenda in…
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Space Supporting the Sustainability Development Goals (Resource)
The importance of the role of space applications such as Earth Observation (EO) and geolocation (provided by Global Navigation Satellite Systems known as GNSS) in supporting the achievement of the development goals is recognized by the United Nations (see General Assembly resolution A/RES/70/1: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ). However, the…
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Space Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (article)
Despite the growing global economy and the technological progress observed in the past decades, there are still many societal challenges that need to be overcome to enhance human development. The United Nations, involving more than 190 Member States, has developed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in order to address these challenges in the form…
