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SIDS: Blevis’ Sustainable Interaction Design
Eli Blevis’ “Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention and disposal, renewal and reuse” (pdf, ACM link), is set to become an influential paper in Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Design, if not the wider computing sphere. Blevis describes a broad approach that brings together computing (HCI) and sustainability in a way that benefits both streams. He argues […]
Computing supporting environmental education
June 21, 2007
So much of what we see about computing and sustainability is about the bad, or at least people trying to be less bad. So here’s a good news story, computing supporting environmental education. It describes a successful partnership between students of Otago Polytechic’s Bachelor of Information Technology and the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre. The […]
Why just climate savers?
June 17, 2007
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative aims to reduce power consumption by computers by 50% by 2010. With a swish design and press releases from several big companies the group should go far. The goal of the new broad-based environmental effort is to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting aggressive new targets for […]
Willard’s 5 stages
June 15, 2007
Bob Willard identifies five stages of an organisations adoption of sustainability. I think these are very useful – it helps give context to problems and decisions. I’m re-looking at the skip and the Green RFP, wondering where my profession and organisations fit on this continuum. To skip to the bottom, it may be presumptuous to […]
June 28, 2007
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