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A collection of 11 posts

Changing the conversation around Existential Risk

Changing the conversation around Existential Risk

Read now a new blog post by OBP author Dr SJ Beard on the Open Access title 'The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies'

From Handwriting to Footprinting : Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis

From Handwriting to Footprinting : Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis

Read now, a blog by author Anne Baillot on her latest title 'From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis'

Greening Europe: Powering the argument for green investment during challenging times

Greening Europe: Powering the argument for green investment during challenging times

Read Now: a blog post written by our volunteer Joanne Walton on 'Greening Europe: 2022 European Public Investment Outlook' by Floriana Cerniglia and Francesco Saraceno.

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

This blog post was written by Bill Sutherland (Miriam Rothschild Professor in Conservation Biology in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) and Nigel Taylor (Research Associate in the Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

Fake Seeds and Dead Livestock: Where’s the Justice in that?

Open Access Week 2022

Fake Seeds and Dead Livestock: Where’s the Justice in that?

Read Now: Thea Potter's blog on climate change, climate justice and the environment written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

Artists were the First Environmentalists:
Pictures Tracking Climate Change & Assaults on Nature

Artists were the First Environmentalists: Pictures Tracking Climate Change & Assaults on Nature

Read Now: Katherine Manthorne's blog on climate change, art history and the environment written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

Linking Climate Justice and Open Access: the case for truly public knowledge

Linking Climate Justice and Open Access: the case for truly public knowledge

Read Now: Mihnea Tănăsescu's blog on climate justice, academic research and OA written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

Earth Day and the Beauty We Love

Earth Day and the Beauty We Love

Read now Sam Mickey's (co-editor of 'Living Eart Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing') reflections on Earth Day 2021.

On ‘Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change’

On ‘Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change’

Read Domenic Rotundo's thoughts on our latest Open Access title 'Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change'

Publishing an Open Access Textbook on Environmental Sciences: Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Publishing an Open Access Textbook on Environmental Sciences: Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Richard B. Primack and John W. Wilson. The book contains hundreds of photographs from Africa, such as this cheetah family, which are published as CC BY 4.0. Photograph by Markus Lilje, CC BY 4.0. For the past six years we have been working to produce the first

Shrinking Our Carbon Footprint: Update One

carbon footprint 2020

Shrinking Our Carbon Footprint: Update One

In December, we announced our intention to reduce our carbon footprint in 2020. This post includes more detail about our plans and an update about what we’ve achieved thus far.