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Biomimicry in software engineering – a super system metaphor?

August 27, 2007

Biomimicry is described as: Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example of this “innovation inspired by nature.” The core idea […]

Best transformative resources for sustainability?

August 25, 2007

Karlson ‘Charlie’ Hargroves is the Executive Director of the The Natural Edge Project. He sent us these open source education materials. Their whole system design suite gives a comprehensive introduction to whole system design approach as the basis for transformative action. Education for Sustainability has to be more than “bolt on” environmental papers in existing […]

Q: What is great to see but unfortunately only half green?

August 20, 2007

A: The Australian Computing Society’s Green ICT Policy The CfS Agenda places a high priority on engaging with professional and industry groups to articulate computing’s response to sustainability. This, then, is very exciting: Environmental considerations are set to become an integral part of the professional conduct, practice and ethical considerations that ICT professionals will bring […]

Sustainable Habitat Challenge

August 15, 2007

The Sustainable Habitat Challenge, or SHaC 09 is a national (New Zealand) challenge for tertiary organisations that aims to develop sustainable solutions. In short: teams of students and their lecturers will research, design and build a new sustainable house over a period of 18 months, to be finished in November 2009. Why am I telling […]

Beginning a dialogue to generate a vision (4)

August 9, 2007

Do we have any local examples that would suit being used as case studies? How can we shift sustainability from a fad to an enduring basis of what we do? Zorn and Collins (earlier post) ask whether is sustainability is “merely a fashion”, with connotations of “frivolousness, an emphasis on aesthetics (particularly superficial or […]