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Posts from ACTS: David Thompson on 3D sustainability
David Thompson spoke about 3D sustainability at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. He got a mixed reception. Some hadn’t seen SecondLife before and were impressed. Others gave him quite a hard time. They picked up on his “gee, second life is cool, you should use it for sustainability” and probed […]
Posts from ACTS: Jennifer McMillin engages students
October 7, 2008
Jennifer McMillin from ANUgreen spoke at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. Jennifer talked about Engaging students in campus sustainability: learning experiences, using campus as laboratory. The focus of her talk was ways of engaging the majority of students who “don’t come looking for courses on sustainability”. This has benefits as a learning […]
Posts from ACTS: Neil Barnes
October 7, 2008
Dr Neil Barns gave one of the keynotes at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. Barns is the CEO of CPIT, his talk focussed on the challenges and opportunities education for sustainability presents to a tertiary institution. In short, he describes an approach of developing a vision with the governance […]
Dealing with the devil? Sponsorship ethics for LivingCampus
September 16, 2008
Our colleague Brian has a jacket for a favourite race-car team. It has fascinated me since he got it. What sort of negotiation went on that sees a smoking company and a quit-smoking company jostling for position on the same arm? Brian’s jacket has been on my mind the last couple of days following […]
Footprints and longfins
September 9, 2008
Last night we went to a talk by Metiria Turei about the dramatic collapse in New Zealand’s endemic eel population, the longfin in particular. Metiria showed an outstanding film by students from the Science and Natural History filmmaking programme of the the Centre for Science Communication. Lindsay Davidson and Melissa Salpietra’s Longfin (mp4 24mins) is a […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 7, 2008
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