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Some of my favourite Ray Anderson quotes
I did a piece on Ray Anderson on Sustainable Lens last night. Here’s some of my favourite quotes: On more happiness and less stuff: More happiness with less stuff, all made sustainably. (via Environmental Leader) On waste: The industrial system takes too much, extracting and frittering away Earth’s natural capital on wants, not needs,” […]
DIY “Essay”
July 29, 2011
This year I’m teaching Web1 (1 because it is in first year, the subject matter is Web2.0). The course has a large project that generates 50% of the marks. Another 30% is for achievement of weekly learning outcomes – this is entirely self and peer assessed through a collaborative learning approach – all their […]
Research agenda for a real sustainable lens
May 26, 2011
If the military can have “terminator vision” why can’t sustainability? Mainly because we don’t have specifications for such a device, nor even a wishlist. In these slides for our talk at Collaborative Technology Systems (CTS 2011), we explore what it might mean to augment the world with a sustainable perspective.
Mahinerangi Wind Farm
April 2, 2011
Mahinerangi Wind Farm, a photo by Samuel Mann on Flickr. We went to the Mahinerangi Wind Farm open day today. I’m still in two minds about the wind farms. On one hand an extremely efficient source of power, on the other an excuse for us not to face the real problem of profligate consumption. On […]
Extra-dimensional sustainability?
March 17, 2011
Last night I went to a talk by Professor Lawrence Krauss (famous for writing, amongst other things – The Physics of Star Trek). The subject of Krauss’ talk was the question of whether there are hidden dimensions and whether there is evidence in the natural (physical world) for them – or is it just something […]
Computing for Sustainability 
August 12, 2011
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