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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
Recognising & Disrupting Harmful Ideas
June 19, 2026
Visit the ICT4S 2026 Zine library. Pdf on Research Bank 1. Recognise how ideas are used against us. 2. Disrupt that narrative and provide a compelling alternative.
Bonus images
February 26, 2026
Bonus images that are sustanability-adjacent that didn’t make it into the main collection. Deplazes-Zemp (2024) Bonus 2: Disconnection from nature (Beery 2023) Indigenous Tipping point scales (Powell et al 2023) Shooting hoops (Rockström 2024) Couldn’t put in main list, but I like this agency change mapped to transitions. (Matti et al. 2025) Genealogy of sustainable […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Transitions, transformations and turnarounds – adding to Visualising Sustainability
February 26, 2026
For several years now, my approach to my summer reading has centred around looking for diagrams of sustainability. The collection, now of 1100 diagrams is here. This year the search got harder, not because the images are harder to find, but the opposite, the field is exploding, and it is becoming quite challenging to find […]
Posted in: visualisingsustainability
Catching up with Blowing Bubbles
July 28, 2025
Episode 481: Unleashing the Inner Engineering Bubbles – Kelvin Thiele Date: 2023-06-21Summary: 481 – Unleashing the Inner Engineering Bubbles – Kelvin Thiele of Epro8 joins Samuel Mann and Mawera Karetai. With a contribution from Tahu Mackenzie. Listen to Episode Episode 482: Bubbling in Nature – AJ Fedoruk Date: 2023-07-05Summary: 482 – Bubbling in Nature – AJ […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
The NIRF in Practice: Surfacing Patterns, Finding Traction
June 30, 2025
When we introduced the updated Necessarily Insider Research Framework (NIRF), we offered it not as a checklist, but as a landscape. Now with reflexivity being made explicit, there are 192 evaluative prompts to consider as part of Professional Practice research. That might sound like too much – but it’s intentionally rich. This isn’t a framework […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
June 5, 2020
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