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Today’s reading: Sustainable ICT in higher education

January 27, 2009

Peter James and Lisa Hopkinson have released their mammoth study on Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education. The report summarises a survey, a footprinting of University of Sheffield, several workshops, and a lot of literature. Here’s my notes on the preamble through Chapter 1. The topic of sustainable ICT – ie the economic, […]

Punctuated equilibrium

January 15, 2009

Romi Mahajan has an interesting little piece that examines developments in computing in terms of theories of biological evolution. He explores different explanations for evolution. After dismissing catastrophism (change occurs in a slow, continuous process – “hyperbolic and rather useless with regard to planning and preparation”) and uniformitarianism (IT changes slowly in a continuous and predictable […]

Need for sustainable developers-slash-journalists

January 14, 2009

Recent discussion (Eric Ulken,Emily Nussbaum, Cindy Royal) on the people behind the New York Times website puts a new light on the role of the sustainable computing practitioner. The breadth of the impact of computing is what drives many of us to take sustainable computing beyond our own footprint. This is recognised in statements such as NACCQ’s policy that […]

Point-source recycling SEEDs questions

December 18, 2008

There’s a 3D printer in the product development centre at work. I think it’s fantastic. I just love the thought experiment of how things will change when 3D printing becomes ubiquitous. What will be the impact of us being able to fabricate parts on every desktop? A different device has had […]

Gravity sucks

December 4, 2008

Q: What have gravity and sustainability got in common? A: Try as hard as you like, they’ll both pull you down to earth in the end. Linda Tucci makes what she calls “obnoxious caveats” in her post “Brownie points for green IT will go away … and then?“. I think this is inspired, no […]