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Blowing Bubbles – Positively Podcasting Covid
At the start of the Covid Lockdown we were asked to a daily radio show/podcast: Blowing Bubbles. It is broadcast on Otago Access Radio (3pm NZ) and podcast from there and sustainablelens.org. Positive conversations with people in their bubbles around the world. https://www.facebook.com/BubblesBySustainableLens/ We’re going for a conversation a bit like Sustainable Lens but with […]
Posted in: community
901…1000 Sustainable Images from Summer Reading
January 27, 2024
I’ve reached the end of my summer reading pile (yes, still got a PhD to assess, and reviewing and …). As I read, I tag papers and sources that have candidate diagrams for this collection. On revisiting, only about half of those get included. I have changed the criteria a bit, I used to be strict – diagrams […]
900…791 Diagrams of Sustainability Sat on the Wall
October 27, 2023
I hereby declare that it is impossible to read the volume of sustainability-related literature being published. At least I can’t do it. So I choose to read papers only that contain a diagram. I think they convey the essence – and often the detail – in a way that I find way more engaging than […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
A woodpecker, a genie and a snake
September 1, 2023
I’m giving a keynote at CompEd in India in December. My working title is “searching for computing’s soul”. I’m using the examples of ethics, sustainability and decolonising in the context of computing education. Very aware of being the white “expert” talking about these things in a colonised country with rich and varied understandings, I went […]
A virus, a pyramid, and a butterfly walked into a sustainable bar…
July 19, 2023
Adding to the collection of diagrams of sustainability. This time we add dimensions – so a triangle becomes a wedge and a pyramid And spirals and links become a pandemic. We finish with an ontological butterfly. 655. PlanetEarth Concept (if the planet is conceived as triangles) (Al-Thour 2016) 656. Washing machine (Mansell 2019) 657. SDGs […]
601…654
June 26, 2023
This collection includes a flurry of diagrams bringing regenerative aspects of sustainability to the fore. As usual, wading through the ever-persistent pillars models, now usually disguised as things such as “sustainable business innovation”. Is it just me, or is the management literature 20 years behind sustainability science? Updating the collection of images describing sustainability. 601. […]
Computing for Sustainability 
June 5, 2020
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