SDG Academy Library

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Equality of Opportunity

Non-discrimination is an interesting concept in law; Joshua Castellino argues that in society, some discrimination is perfectly justifiable. Unjustifiable discrimination occurs in the context of marginalized groups as a consequence of a person’s identity, not necessarily ability. Tools for nondiscrimination need to promote equality of opportunity for all. Societies put in place measures like affirmative action to try to remedy this, though these are only temporary solutions. This video…

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The Challenge of Ageing Populations

This video addresses the concerns of health of the aging populations as an important part of global public health and sustainable development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Gender Equality: A Confucian Perspective

Confucian ethics is a tradition that can be used by people from different religious traditions in China. It is a tradition shared by people who may engage in different forms of religious life. They can all appeal to the virtues of benevolence, justice, and trustworthiness in their struggles for fair treatment, recognition, and equality. Confucian ethics is a very important resource in the struggle for equality in the 21st century, and the reconstruction of Confucianism as a progressive…

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Governing Ocean Pollution

In this video, you will learn how multifaceted strategies for governing ocean pollution can be. Ocean pollution does not know any boundaries but it affects us all and all parts of the world, regardless of where the harmful activity occurred and who is responsible for that. So, despite international and national efforts to prevent and reduce pollution of the oceans, a lot needs to be done to improve and enforce existing laws and to consider whether new activities, such as the storage of…

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Consumption and Diets

This chapter discusses the current state of our diets and the dietary trends around the world. There are four things that are happening globally: people are consuming too many calories, those calories are of poor quality, diets are not very affordable, and they’re not sustainable. People are consuming more than they need to on average, but what they consumer is of poor quality, or “junk food.” Sugar consumption is on the rise, particularly with processed foods. Our diets cost…

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Markets and Supply Chains

Price fluctuations happen as a result of the storage process from seasonal harvests and the working of the markets and the supply chain, as these harvests need to be transported between production and consumption. In off-farm storage, there are issues of food safety, processing, and quality assurance. Seasonal price changes reflect the cost of storage because when simultaneous harvests occur across a huge area, prices are low, but after that, prices rise by exactly the cost of storage, or the…

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Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

Education is crucial for global development and for the success of sustainable development, but this chapter discusses the content of learning to be good citizens in a new kind of world a world that is organized around the principles of sustainable development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Religion and Peacebuilding

"Religion--the sacred the notion of a deep reality that guides our lives--is an embedded reality. It affects how we think about sexuality and family and commerce and politics and education and culture. So it's global, it's thick, and it's about meaning. And as a result, religion evokes in people a sense of commitment, vocation, calling, and-- most importantly for what we're about here-- a sense of a willingness to sacrifice for a greater good." This video is…

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The Three Big Challenges: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Pollution

This chapter focuses on the three main environmental challenges facing the world today: human-induced climate change, biodiversity loss, and the pollution caused by economic activity. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.