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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 […]

Sustainability Learning through Gaming

August 20, 2012

I’ve long been looking for approaches that use gameplay to engage in sustainability. I’ve previously been disappointed in a lack of systems thinking, and decisions in game design that damage a sustainable game’s utility. While participatory model development rather than gameplay, this was premise of my PhD Spatial Process Modelling. Prompted by Stefan Kreitmayer I’ve […]

Challenge and opportunity in future of education

August 9, 2012

Last night the Tertiary Education Union hosted a public forum in Dunedin on the future of tertiary education. The speakers were Phil Ker, Prof Vernon Squire, Logan Edgar, David Clark, Metiria Turei and TEU’s Sandra Grey. As always Aaron Hawkins did a great job of chairing. Here are my notes: Phil Ker talked about the […]

Interactions

March 27, 2012