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Recognising & Disrupting Harmful Ideas

June 19, 2026

Visit the ICT4S 2026 Zine library. Pdf on Research Bank 1. Recognise how ideas are used against us. 2. Disrupt that narrative and provide a compelling alternative.

Picking flowers: visualising sustainable practitioners

April 20, 2008

We need tools to facilitate computing’s progression from not thinking about sustainability or single issue greenness to a wider adoption of holistic sustainability as part of normal business practice. I’m not thinking here of carbon calculators or energy dashboards – instead we need simple concepts to help people along that journey. Key to this is […]

No, it is not marketing’s fault – beyond the paper recycling bin

November 3, 2007

What am I doing now that detracts from a more sustainable future? On Thursday I presented “Green IT” to Otago University’s IT Seminar, organised by Neil James. Not knowing who to expect I started with “curriculum; community and compost” and then tried to make the talk generic enough to engage people from any of those […]

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 […]

Beginning a dialogue to generate a vision (3)

August 8, 2007

What might be computing’s equivalent of the cradle to cradle approach? What is missing from current graduates that can be expressed as learning outcomes? Schaller (1993) argued that sustainability both benefits from and is hampered by imprecision: “as a destination, sustainability is like truth and justice — concepts not readily captured in concise definitions”. […]