Since my last post, I have been staying busy as the end of my internship with WWF inches closer and closer and I begin finalizing my project deliverables. Between all the reading, research, and scripting for the MOOC, I was able to enjoy a lovely Swedish Midsummer celebration with new friends, participated in an exciting global forum with policymakers at the Resilient Cities 2019 Conference in Bonn, Germany, and have begun to see my scripts come to life in initial filming for the MOOC. It’s been a pretty laid-back month, to say the least.
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Making Sustainability Sexy
Not too little. Not too much. Just right. Lagom. The Swedish way of life which includes a healthy work-life balance and a more simplistic way of living is often accredited to the Lagom philosophy. It is this balanced way of life that allows for many Swedes to enjoy long summer holidays, leaving their work behind until the autumn returns.
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Hej kompisar (hello, friends)!
My summer leadership placement takes place in southern Sweden in the cities of Malmö and Lund. Over the course of my 8-week internship with the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) Global Cities team I will be developing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in collaboration with the International Institute of Industrial and Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. Now that all of those acronyms are out of the way, I can say a bit about this exciting project! The MOOC will be designed to reach a primary audience of local governments in the global south that wish to learn how to make sustainable energy transitions in cities. The focus of the MOOC will be energy solutions in cities in alignment with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (last acronym for now, I swear!) goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
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The Nelson Institute: Environmental Conservation Leadership Projects 