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Less stuff more living – and exactly how much stuff?
I’ve written before about ecolabels in computing: sticky labels on products giving it a green tick (or not). This is from the DoTT07 book: The amount of waste matter generated in the production a single laptop computer is close to 4,000 times its weight on your lap (gulp, and what if you’re writing on that […]
89 reasons not to teach sustainability
October 13, 2007
As you know, we’re on track to integrate sustainability across the curriculum by 2009. We’re trying to identify all the barriers to achieving that (so that we can work to reduce these hurdles). What other reasons have we missed? 1 Sustainability isn’t a real problem 2 Sustainability not a concern of my discipline 3 sustainability […]
Transparent calculator, or socially aware computing?
October 12, 2007
The Design Museum has Jonathon Barnbrook’s Friendly Fire exhibition. Other than the iconic images and great fonts (and the wonderful Olympukes), two things stood out for me. First, argument about the notion of the “transparent communicator”: The idea of the designer ‘transparent communicator’ is redundant. It was formulated before the rise of corporate power, globilisation, […]
Computing the Eden Project
October 12, 2007
Two things about me: 1. My work is a sometimes strange mix of education, plants and computers. 2. From my being 6 weeks to 9 years old, we lived outside Bodmin in Cornwall. All these things came together for me last week when we visited the Eden Project. What a wonderful place. Perhaps even more […]
Computing Ethics meet Computing Sustainability
October 2, 2007
Computing ethics met computing sustainability at the weekend when we had lunch with Don Gotterbarn and Sylvia Nagl. Don was the lead author on most of what we recognise as computing’s codes of ethics (see my notes) while Sylvia’s work in complex systems is pushing the limits of computing. Don was in London on ACM/IFIP […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 19, 2007
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