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Blowing Bubbles – Positively Podcasting Covid

June 5, 2020

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 […]

Upcoming workshop: The role of ICT in transforming society through engaged communities

July 20, 2015

I’m very happy that this workshop will be held at ICT4S in September (see more info here) On the basis that sustainability problems are not amenable to single-point interventions (because they are both wicked and numerous), we need a step-change in how we approach ICT4S. Rather than trying for separate interventions for every aspect, or for […]

Land Ethic for Don

March 12, 2012

Prompted by the funeral for forester and mountaineer Don Slocum who we farewelled today, I’ve been thinking about Leopold’s Land Ethic. In 1948 Aldo Leopold published the Sand County Almanac. In it he recognised that our ethics are derived from a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. […]

Community benefits as sustainability framework

July 25, 2010

In the second of two talks Professor Geoff Syme presented a social psychological approach to water allocation. While many of us don’t have the extreme water allocation problems Australia does (he seriously described Australians as becoming environmental refugees), the concepts have wider appeal. The key message is that rather than focussing on managing the allocation […]

Tools for navigating landscape of community action

May 12, 2009

In the early 90s I worked on the Otago Regional Council’s land and vegetation monitoring programme. One of the strategies we used was to closely involve the land managers in monitoring and analysis. We hoped (and found) this would give greater credibility to the process and ownership of the results. The involvement stemmed beyond labour […]