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Vibrant PostCarbon role for ICT

April 7, 2008

Over on empyre, there’s a month of discussion about sustainability and new media: “wired sustainability“. Henry Warwick posted this sketch of a paper he’s working on. I think it extreme and I disagree with most of it, but it’s had me thinking all weekend, so I’ve copied it here if just to anchor one end […]

Posts from SICSE: Lazowska suggests green IT as next space race

April 3, 2008

Ed Lazowska is chair of the Computing Community Consortium. He gave the last keynote at SIGCSE (slides here). He describes the 20 greatest engineering achievements of the 20th Century. Computing is listed, as are electronics and the internet. Perhaps even more important though is the role of computing in ALL of the other achievements from […]

Green Birds of Feather

March 27, 2008

We held a successful Birds of a Feather session at SIGCSE last week. Here’s my notes: – Hope for a SIGCSE sustainable practice statement We discussed the New Zealand (NACCQ) statement on Computing Education for Sustainability – here is the background: https://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/cfs-policy/ – Deeper analysis of problems and opportunities – Promoting sustainable practice, integration with […]

Posts from SIGCSE: Computer Science service-learning programme

March 26, 2008

Chris Brooks described a successful service-learning programme for computer science students (pdf). He teaches at a Jesuit school where service learning is the norm. He makes the point that this is not “volunteering” , rather service learning is community-based active lerning that supplements classroom material with reflective activities that help students synthesize experiences: If the […]

Computing central to Krupp’s greatest race of all time

March 21, 2008

I happened on Fred Krupp giving a talk from his new book: Earth the Sequel (my mpg at from archive.org) at Powells this week (I was in Portland, now back in Dunedin). He takes a good news approach to sustainability – not good that climate change is happening – rather the opportunity presented. He says […]