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MBO

September 16, 2025

The life cycle assessment of everyday objects

This educational resource has been made as part of the Digital Impressions project and has been last updated at 16.19.2025. The resource encompasses a complete guide for teaching sustainability through objects. The table of content exists of: Reason for doing a life cycle assessment...........................................................................2 Limitations..........................................................................................................................2 Target audience..................................................................................................................3 Learning objectives............................................................................................................3 Activity................................................................................................................................4 Resources...........................................................................................................................5 Variations............................................................................................................................5 Variation 1: mini LCA........................................................................................................5 Variation 2: full LCA project.............................................................................................6 Appendix 1: assignment sheet............................................................................................7 Reference list.....................................................................................................................8

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Sofia Zampedri, Linde Voorend

March 30, 2015

Groen voor en van de maatschappij

Voor een dorpstuin gaan we een ontwerptraject starten. MBO-studenten en HBO- studenten gaan op eigen wijze de eerste verkenningen doen. HBO studenten gaan desk-research doen door te kijken naar bestemmingsplan, bodem, klimaat, belangen van verschillende groepen binnen het dorp door gerichte interviews. MBO studenten gaan field-research doen door samen met de werkgroep te ervaren wat de wensen en eisen zijn t.a.v. het inrichten van de buitenruimte.

Secondary vocational education, UASDocument

Eliza Janse

March 27, 2025

The Medieval Podcast | Medieval Africa with Luke Pepera

Although it's the cradle of our species, and a land as rich in culture as it is legendarily rich in resources, retellings of African history often place their focus heavily on the transatlantic slave trade. While this is valuable, too narrow a focus can make it easy to lose sight of how incredibly powerful, interconnected, and respected African people have been within the fabric of global history. This week, Daniele speaks with Luke Pepera about medieval Africa, what it would've been like to find yourself in one of the most powerful empires of the Middle Ages, and the famous pilgrimage of Mansa Musa. You can support this podcast on Medievalists.net Patreon page, which sells this digital map of medieval Africa: https://www.patreon.com/medievalists/shop/map-of-medieval-africa-36747?source=storefront This podcast is made possible by the generous support of listeners like you! To find out how to help spread the joy of medieval history, please visit patreon.com/themedievalpodcast

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Danièle Cybulskie, Luke Pepera

December 5, 2024

The Rest Is History | 519. The World’s First City

In as early as 5000 BC the vast and spectacular city of Uruk - replete with towering walls, glistening temples and complex irrigation systems - lay sprawled across the face of Southern Mesopotamia. Not only is Uruk the oldest city in the world, but it is arguably one of the most consequential, having facilitated one of the great turning points of human civilisation. Here, in this mysterious metropolis lay the origins of urbanisation, making Uruk the predecessor and antecedent of every modern city today. It was the cradle of formidable trading networks, sophisticated craftsmanship, agricultural prosperity, the earliest examples of writing, and even home to the very first person in human history to be named. Yet, by 700 AD this once great wonder of the ancient world had been abandoned, leaving nothing behind but haunting ruins and two burning questions: firstly, how did this marvel of urbanisation come to exist, and secondly, what led to its ruin? Was it colonisation, climate change, or conquest…? Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss Uruk, the first city in the whole of world history and the mother of modern urbanisation, revealing the remarkable tale of its discovery, its mysterious origins, and equally enigmatic decline. Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor

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Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook, Theo Young-Smith, Tabby Syrett, Jack Davenport, Tony Pastor

October 24, 2025

Measure Sustainability: LCA

In this video, Angelica Rota explains the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and its specific application to glass products. The LCA is a standardized process that evaluates a product's environmental impact from raw material extraction ("cradle") to final disposal ("grave"). The assessment follows four phases: defining the goal and scope, conducting a life cycle inventory, assessing the environmental impacts, and interpreting the results. For construction products like glass, the life cycle is divided into modules covering production, use, end-of-life, and potential benefits from recycling. The findings of an LCA are often published in an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), a verified document that communicates transparent environmental data. For flat glass, the manufacturing stage is the most environmentally intensive, contributing the vast majority to its global warming potential due to the high energy required to melt raw materials. Increasing the use of recycled glass cullet is a key strategy for reducing this impact, as it significantly lowers the energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions of the melting process. Understanding LCA is crucial for identifying environmental hotspots and driving more sustainable practices in glass production and use. The video was produced by the Open GLASSroom project. Special thanks to Angelica Rota for contributing to the Open GLASSroom OER collection. The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2022-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000089750. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.

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Angelica Rota

February 18, 2022

Bilingual babies [Season 2, Episode 1]

Children start talking when they are around one year old. However, we know from research that they are already working on language before that. In this episode, we learn what exactly babies know about language. And we hear about the ingenious ways scientists have developed to figure this out. For example, they measure how fast babies suck on a fake teat, or measure the activity in their brains. Bilingual babies by definition hear more than one language while in their cradle. How do they keep their two languages apart? How do they know which combination of sounds belong together and in which language? How do they learn their first words? These are all questions we discuss in this episode of Kletsheads. We do this together with Krista Byers-Heinlein from Concordia University in Canada. We learn that bilingual babies can hear differences between all kinds of languages, and just like monolingual babies, they start to zoom in on the sounds of the languages they hear around them in the first 12 months. Babies use the rhythm of language to distinguish different languages. In the podcast you will hear three languages, German, Spanish and Japanese. All three have a different rhythm. The pieces in the podcast were all from adults reading children’s books. Spanish: Pollito Tito – Chicken Little in Spanish with English subtitles Japanese: Learn Japanese with Children’s Books – 12 Minutes of Japanese Kids Books With Hiroko German: Noaanou’s Kinderkram – Vorlesegeschichten: Pixi Buch “Conni bekommt eine Katze” Importantly, keeping the two languages separate by having each parent only speak one language only does not appear to be necessary for babies to keep their languages apart. As Krista put it, mixing your languages won’t mix up your babies. We also hear about bilingual babies learning languages which are similar to each other, and about differences between bilingual and monolingual babies when it comes to their flexibility in learning new rules that don’t have anything to do with language: bilingual babies adapt to the environment they’re growing up in and this can have consequences for how they learn such rules. In the first edition of our new feature, Kletsheads Quick and Easy (starts at 25:35), I encourage you to give your bilingual child a compliment about their bilingualism. Compliments make a child feel valued, it boosts their self-esteem, and gives them self-confidence. It is also a way of recognising that speaking two or more languages is not always easy, and that it can sometimes take extra effort.

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Sharon Unsworth