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Sustainability at the showcase – design
Design at Otago Polytechnic has gone a long way to incorporate sustainable thinking into its programmes. There’s lots to chose from at the Excite student showcase this week. Talking to the students and lecturers, it is pleasing to hear the extent to which sustainability has become a part of the student ethos. This can […]
Sustainability at the student showcases – Team Dunedin
November 24, 2008
Team Dunedin exhibit at Excite We were doing the Excite thing on Saturday. In L-block Phillip Ballard was showing off the Team Dunedin design for Shac. The aim of the Team Dunedin house is to “mainstream sustainable building and living using our houses built on campus”. Team Dunedin is designing and building a […]
Inspiring sustainable practitioner
November 4, 2008
Yesterday we hosted Lizzie Gillet, producer of “The Age of Stupid“. Back in Dunedin for a while, she gave an inspirational talk about the making of the movie. Otago Polytechnic is committed to sustainable education and from 2009 every graduate will have been trained in sustainability practices. With that goal in mind we’re always […]
eLivingCampus on to iteration three
October 22, 2008
As you know, our software engineering classes are developing the information systems that will power the LivingCampus. At the end of the second iteration student groups have presented their functional deliverables to the clients (flickr). In teaching the Agile Development Framework we focus on the development cycle in the first two iterations. Although the […]
Posts from ACTS: Lesley Stone – a wishlist for EfS
October 16, 2008
Dr Lesley Stone spoke about a wishlist for tertiary education for sustainability at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. Lesley is the Envrionmental Coordinator at the University of Auckland. In her presentation she explored the findings of her 2006 paper “Progress and pitfalls in the provision of tertiary education for sustainable development inNew […]
Computing for Sustainability 
November 24, 2008
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