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From the margins to the centre
At the UN DESD conference I was at a workshop on integrating Education for Sustainability into curriculum plans. The workshop had the theme of “from the margins to the centre” and was by far the most productive session I attended. In one section, Robert Schreiber of the Hamburg Ministry of Education presented the German model of […]
Simple pledge: towards sustainable practice
April 27, 2009
You asked for it, here’s Otago Polytechnic’s book as an embedded pdf. Read in full screen to read the words. It’s perhaps in the wrong order in this format – when printed landscape, one tends to look at the picture and narrative on the right before the detailed words on the left. Very […]
Simple pledge as a powerpoint
April 27, 2009
Here’s the slideshow for the keynote presentation I gave at last week’s Professional Development Conference.
Otago Polytechnic’s Simple Pledge: towards sustainable practice
April 27, 2009
My compilation of images representing sustainability a few weeks back (goal, 158 approaches) was prompted by our desire to tell our story. The result is Otago Polytechnic’s simple pledge to do the right thing – illustrated in a book: Simple Pledge. These pages tell the narrative in words and pictures. The pages facing these ones […]
Occupational theme and sustainability worldview?
April 24, 2009
I’m wondering today if there is a link between occupational preferences and sustainability? I was prompted there by an interesting report in the latest Communications of the ACM. LeeAnne Coder and her colleagues report on a study of 500 graduates in Kansas. They were interested in exploring the extent to which “the dearth of […]
Computing for Sustainability 
April 28, 2009
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