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Apples for the students? Beyond good or evil

February 18, 2013

We’ve got a new Mac suite at work. We intend to use it for teaching operating systems, networks etc, as well as a platform for developing for the iOS. On our department facebook page an interesting debate has been raging, started by the following question: I’d like to know (and I know of others who […]

Permageekery

January 28, 2013

Over the summer we interviewed Danyl Strype on Sustainable Lens. Active in both the Permaculture in New Zealand and the creative commons movements, Danyl describes himself as a permageek. We spent an enjoyable hour wallowing in sustainable IT (without mentioning virtualisation) – here’s the pod.

“Post-sustainability” workshop at CHI

December 17, 2012

The CHI sustainability community will be hosting a workshop on ‘Post-Sustainability’ as part of CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives, the annual ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Paris, France (27 April – 2 May 2013). The workshop will be held on a single day prior to the start of the main conference, […]

Of behavioural wedges and spillovers

September 21, 2012

In the New Zealand Parliament yesterday the Associate Minister for Climate Change Issues Simon Bridges repeatedly answered Kennedy Graham’s questions about worsening scientific evidence with answers about protecting NZ jobs (video). Only when the economy improves, he said, could we look at changes so long as they didn’t affect NZ jobs. In other words, the […]

Sounds Like Sustainable Computing

September 17, 2012

In 2011 we began a weekly radio show “Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio”. Each week the team take a sustainable perspective on current topics in the world around us. Regular features aimed at drawing out connections lead into an extended discussion with invited guests. The show is broadcast live on Otago Access Radio, streamed on […]