- Course overview
- Search within this course
- Getting started: key terms
- The diverse environmental impacts of research
- Understanding the impacts of computing
- Quantifying the operational carbon footprint of our analysis
- What can we do?
- Conclusion
- Where to go next
- Your feedback
- References
- Acknowledgements
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