YouTube Courses

Industry Decarbonization - Reducing GHG Emissions from Iron, Steel, and Cement

A short overview of opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across major industrial subsectors, including iron and steel and cement.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Solar Thermal Electricity - Concentrating Solar Power

An overview of concentrating solar power systems, their environmental impacts, and the trends shaping their outlook.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Transportation Systems: Historical Development, Environmental Impact and Fuel Policies - Part 1

Trace transportation’s history and scale, then examine how fleets, pollution externalities, fuel policies, and biofuels shape its energy impact.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Vehicle Efficiency Standards and the Future of Transportation - Part 2

Examines how vehicle efficiency standards, electrification, travel demand, and embodied energy shape transportation’s energy use and future.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Natural Gas: History, Systems, Environmental Impact and Future Outlook

Trace natural gas from its history and distribution system to its environmental impacts, economics, and future.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) - How It Works, Risks, and Global Developments

An overview of how carbon capture and storage works, including direct air capture, potential risks, and projects around the world.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Oil 10 Minute Take - Significance, Markets, and Environmental Impacts

A concise tour of oil’s significance, trade, transport and refining, with attention to its environmental and climate impacts.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Interest-based and Ideological Biases in Online Content Consumption: Problems and Solutions

A research talk argues that unequal exposure to political content may matter more for democracy than algorithmic paths to radical content, and examines interventions to broaden exposure.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Climate Change - The Science, Social Will, and Solutions

Examines the science behind climate change, how to build the social will to act, and ways to address it.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Oil - History, Significance, Markets, Production and Refining

Trace oil from its historical significance and markets through oil sands, midstream trade and transportation, and downstream refining.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Disruptive Energy Futures

Amory Lovins examines how shifts in energy use, power sources, electricity, distribution, and digital technology are reshaping the global electricity system.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Adventures in Ape Language and Restoration

Explore the fascinating world of great apes with Amory Lovins as he discusses their language abilities, intelligence, and human interactions in this Stanford University lecture.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Implementation of Extreme Energy Efficiency

Shows how to overcome adoption barriers and scale extreme energy efficiency through integrative design, policy changes, and markets for saved energy.

• YouTube
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Implications of Energy Transition: Nuclear, Climate Protection, Security and Infrastructure - Part 2

Compares nuclear power with renewables through cost, construction, safety, deployment speed, proliferation, and global security.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Implications of Extreme Energy Efficiency: Hydrocarbon Exits, Renewable Challenges, and Energy Resilience - Part 1

Examines how extreme energy efficiency could reshape hydrocarbon demand, renewable energy constraints, and the resilience of energy systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video