Technology for Environmental Impact
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Lesson 1: The Role of Tech: Opportunities and Pitfalls
Technology enhances our ability to understand and instigate change within systems. In this lesson, we explore the different levels of insight and influence that technology can help us have within a natural system. helping us address the environmental crisis, and what could (and can’t) it help us do?
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Lesson 2: Ethical and Impactful Tech
In this lesson, we’ll dig deep into the design of your tech and some key considerations as you think about how it will be deployed. Beyond just considering the physical environment that a technology is deployed in, we need to design for the political, cultural, and social environment that a technology will work within.
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Lesson 3: The Lifetime of a Technology
In this lesson, we’ll look at what needs to be considered over the lifetime of a tech intervention. How will the tech scale and last? How will it be retired? What is the tech’s long-term future?
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Conservation Technology to Protect Wildlife & Ecosystems
This high-level primer demonstrates a few of the technologies that environmental scientists use to monitor ecosystems.
Explore the site and consider how each of the technologies highlighted might be used in the problem you’re trying to tackle. It’s important to note: in reality, you’ll likely use a combination of these technologies rather than a single one in isolation, to get a more complete picture of the natural system and to actually tackle the problem as well as measure it.