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AAEE in Darwin from Dunedin
The Australian Association for Environmental Education Conference is on in Darwin this week. We’ve presented two papers there: Living Campus and an overview of Education for Sustainability at Otago Polytechnic. None of us left Dunedin to participate (except Phil who was in Christchurch), presenting via their online conference systems (instructions). It was good to be […]
Sustainable practitioners: update
July 10, 2008
Last year Otago Polytechnic made a commitment that by 2009 “every graduate may think and act as a sustainable practitioner”. At the NACCQ conference last week, we were invited to present a summary of progress twoards this goal. Here’s the paper. It expands on this earlier presentation. Every Graduate Education for Sustainability one year on […]
Not caught in Fish’s net
May 13, 2008
Last night we attended a talk by Stanley Fish entitled “Save the world on your own time – what the university professor should (and shouldn’t) do”. Wrongly assuming the title to be tongue in cheek and meant the opposite, I went along hoping to find some stories to add to 89 reasons. How wrong I […]
Towards Sustainable Practitioners
May 12, 2008
Nine months ago, Otago Polytechnic set a goal of “that every graduate may think and act as a “sustainable practitioner”. This notion of sustainable practitioner very much puts what we are doing into the context of each discipline. We just had a review session where every head of department told us about progress towards this […]
Accountant turns both left and green
May 11, 2008
This week I attended a public lecture by Graham Crombie who is a Dunedin accountant and president of the NZ Chartered Accountants. Organised by the Otago Polytechnic Business School, Graham’s talk was entitled “Thinking about change”. In it he considered a wide variety of factors affecting his accountancy firm, concluding with lessons for the Polytechnic […]
Computing for Sustainability 
July 11, 2008
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