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Challenge for anyone who uses a computer

October 18, 2009

Here’s a challenge to give to folks who start quoting the environmental friendliness of their latest computer. All new computers and especially laptops come with claims of “green” and most laptop users are pretty smug about their energy use. This map shows the sources of the components of a typical laptop. It’s a Sourcemap representation […]

Values and hope combine in Earth Charter for teaching

September 25, 2009

In my getting-so-much-closer book, I examine barriers to integrating Education for Sustainability. Two of those barriers can be characterised as “My classroom is value neutral” and “Sustainability is too negative, and without vision” Jeffrey Newman addresses both of these barriers in Values reflection and the Earth Charter in the new Handbook of Sustainable Literacy. The […]

Davies stresses urgency of learning society

September 23, 2009

Quotes from Kate Davies’ A learning society from Handbook of Sustainable Literacy. The whole book is available online from University of Brighton. On urgency: There is not much time. The task of developing a learning society to facilitate humankind’s evolution towards sustainability is urgent. Given current trends, our species will need to learn and change […]

The Wombles were right all along

September 23, 2009

In talking about what it means to be a sustainable practitioner, we use the example of a chainsaw operator: We characterise this by asking departments to consider their equivalent to this story: forestry worker attending a hypothetical Level 2 chainsaw maintenance course. As part of that course the future chainsaw operators are taught all about […]

IBM’s Green Data Center Degree not even nearly green

September 17, 2009

I’ve been sent this link several times in the past few days: IBM Launches First Two-Year Green Data Center Degree. What do I think, should we do this? Unless I’m missing something, I’m very disappointed by these degrees. This is exactly the sort of development that gives the computing profession a bad image. Green data […]