Subscribe:
RSS feed
Saving the earth one byte at a time
Browsing All Posts filed under »Computing for Sustainability«
NZCS certification submission
In the interests of transparency, here’s my submission to the New Zealand Computer Society professionalisation initiative: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the draft Professional Certification Framework. I believe this is the most important action the Society has ever taken, it is well overdue. This belatedness, however, is not a cause for undue haste, […]
Green at 15
April 19, 2009
At the UN DESD conference I was at the launch of the “Green at Fifteen?, How 15-year-olds perform in environmental science and geoscience in PISA 2006“. Andreas Schleicher and Pablo Zoido presented the examination of the competence of young people, every three years. In the 2006 survey the focus is on science, and in this report […]
Sustainability 2.0 doesn’t add up
March 31, 2009
Sustainability = a good thing that requires a radicial shift in thinking Enterprise 2.0 = a good thing that requires a radical shift in thinking. Unfortunately, as every Year 9 student knows, these two statements do not necessarily prove that Enterprise 2.0 = Sustainability. This elementary mistake in logic undermines the value of the otherwise […]
Big picture, little actions
March 16, 2009
In the last few days I’ve been focussed on sustainability imagery. I’ve been taken by the huge variety, but also the constancy of the message – sustainability is big picture thinking, but it’s the little actions that make a difference. The same message is in Michael Lemonick’s really slick article in Scientific […]
More sustainability diagrams
March 16, 2009
Here’s more diagrams to explain sustainability (earlier post, 1-137). 138. 5 mindsets Earthly – focusing on the interplay between environmental and developmental agendas in the short- and long-term both globally and locally; Analytic – based on ‘systems thinking’ and encompassing assessment, planning and management; Careful – based on respect for complexity and uncertainty; Collaborative – focusing on the interplay […]
April 19, 2009
0