Jeffrey Sachs Offers Free Sustainable Development Course

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/30/jeffrey-d-sachs-offers-free-sustainable-development-course/



Jeffrey Sachs Offers Free Sustainable Development Course
Originally published on Ecopreneurist.

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Not all online courses provide all they promise you, but here’s one that should answer all your questions about environmentally sustainable, socially inclusive economic development. It will also challenge you to find out more.

Professor Jeffrey David Sachs, a well-known American economist and since 2002 Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, teaches the course. It is one of the Coursera Massive Open Online Courses open to all interested adults and offered free of charge. Coursera offers 400+ courses in about 20 categories. Eighty-five universities from 16 countries contribute to the online series.

Jeffrey Sachs has twice been named among Time’s 100 most influential world leaders and the magazine sees him as “the world’s best known economist.” The New York Times, not known for hyperbole, calls him “probably the most important economist in the world.”

Professor Sachs introduces his participants to the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development by drawing on the most recent developments in the social, policy, and physical sciences. He believes that reaching sustainable development is the most urgent challenge facing humanity.


Link to courses: https://www.coursera.org/columbia