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Climate Change and Green Infrastructure
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(831 ratings)
2,755 students

Climate Change and Green Infrastructure

Learn about climate change, green infrastructure, and some recent related events.
Created byValentina Zhang
Last updated 1/2020
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Climate Change
  • Green Infrastructure

Course content

3 sections • 10 lectures • 43m total length

  • Introduction3:29

    Explore climate change and green infrastructure, focusing on vegetation, soils, and water management for healthier urban environments. Examine greenhouse gases, and concrete examples like vertical forests and green roofs.

  • What is Climate Change?4:13

    Explore what climate change means and why blue and green infrastructure are needed, detailing how burning fossil fuels trap heat, drive sea level rise, ice loss, ocean warming, and acidification.

  • Why is there Climate Change?6:36

    Fossil fuel use raises greenhouse gas levels, with carbon dioxide as a primary forcing; water vapor acts as a feedback, while methane and ozone also drive warming, not solar changes.

  • What are We Doing to Fight Climate Change?5:51

    Explore mitigation and adaptation to climate change, highlighting carbon dioxide–based food, electric vehicle advances, and reduced meat. Learn how cities apply green infrastructure for stormwater management and resilience.

Requirements

  • Excitement to learn

Description

Welcome to "Climate Change and Green Infrastructure"!

Climate change is affecting everyone. This course will help you develop a good understanding of what climate change is and what we can do to mitigate and adapt to climate change. While there are many ways to fight climate change, this course focuses on green infrastructure, which uses nature as an infrastructural system to manage climate change and help people prepare for it. In this course, you will learn the practices of some large-scale green infrastructure projects, as well as those of smaller projects at a local level. By the end of the course, I hope you will not only have learned more about climate change and green infrastructure, but also take a step forward and support the adoption of green infrastructure. This course includes 12 lectures in an animated format. In addition to the lectures, the course also includes quizzes, fun assignments, and science project suggestions that will help you understand the course material in depth.

What you’ll learn specifically:

  1. What climate change is and what causes climate change

  2. What green infrastructure is and how it helps manage climate change

  3. Specific examples of green infrastructure and the climate issues they address

  4. Benefits and risks of green infrastructure

  5. Some recent events, efforts and legislation to slow down climate change

  6. Opportunities for you to help solve climate change problems

Course requirements:

  1. Age 11 and up

  2. 30 minutes a week for 5 weeks

  3. Having an excitement to learn about climate change and green infrastructure!

Who this course is for:

  • Teenagers excited to learn more about green infrastructure and how they can help

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