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Ethics not just for heroes

April 23, 2009

I’m organising a session on professionalism in computing for the upcoming NACCQ conference. I was talking about this a function at work last night and quickly the conversation turned to ethics in the workplace – how much home photocopying is acceptable? is skimming acceptable if there is demonstrably no harm? how come the hospital […]

Green at 15

April 19, 2009

At the UN DESD conference I was at the launch of the “Green at Fifteen?, How 15-year-olds perform in environmental science and geoscience in PISA 2006“. Andreas Schleicher and Pablo Zoido presented the examination of the competence of young people, every three years. In the 2006 survey the focus is on science, and in this report […]

Boston stole my glass

April 13, 2009

Last week I was in Bonn at the UN Education for Sustainable Development Conference. In Bonn I was struck by the wide divergence of what sustainability means to different people. At one session the representative from Malawi (I think) threw her hands up in dismay, saying that the North simply doesn’t get it – […]

A sustainable practitioner in… career pathways

March 17, 2009

We’ve spent the past couple of days integrating discipline-based sustainable practitioner words into generic career pathway statements. This has been prompted by the small resource we’re making that celebrates where we’re going in terms of education for sustainability. The primary intention is to reinforce momentum for our own staff and to help build credibility with people […]

Redundant question not wasted

February 16, 2009

I’ve been interviewed a few times in the past weeks (Beeby Fellow, ODT). I’ve been surprised by the first question asked by every journalist: you’re in computing – that’s not sustainability, how come you’re writing a book about teaching sustainability? My answer “oh I used to be a botanist/geographer” has satisfied the journalists, but […]