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Global Role Award Winner: Otago Polytechnic for its Education for Sustainability Programme

August 27, 2008

It’s blowing our own trumpet time again. We just won a major award: the ITPNZ Global Role Award marking excellence for a practice that materially prepares New Zealanders to live and work in the wider world. Here’s the ITPNZ press release: (link and below). Much of this text is taken from the nomination (pdf). Otago […]

“We don’t have to, the other guys do it” – modelling EfS in programmes

August 26, 2008

Most people we talk with are very happy to include Education for Sustainability in their programmes, perhaps in part due to our Sustainable Practitioner approach. It’s the next step that gets difficult – integrating EfS into individual courses. Here’s a typical response: “Oh yes, that’s very important to us, the hardware people have got it […]

An A-Z of the 4th R of Reduce-Reuse-Recycle

August 26, 2008

Yesterday’s post about paper was titled Most important of the three Rs, by which I meant Reduce (and, by happy coincidence – Reading). Leigh added a 4th R: “Replace: if your sources are non sustainable”. I know that there are sometimes 4 or more Rs but most people refer to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (waste hierarchy, […]

Strong message without the preaching?

August 18, 2008

I’ve got a couple of public lectures coming up. Both are about our approach to “sustainable practitioners”. One is at the end of a series of lectures with a threaded story – we’ve got a problem, and here’s some suggestions to get out of this situation. So, I’m writing the titles and blurbs to go […]

System metaphor for eLivingCampus

August 11, 2008

Our software engineering class is working to develop the “Living Campus Information Infrastructure” . We’re working towards a project proposal at the end of the first iteration, focussing at the moment on the business opportunity. While most groups moved quite quickly to an information system to support a garden (ie signs, irrigation systems), some are […]