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Designers engage every client in sustainability while computing checks the light switch (maybe)
Our Design School has just been accepted into the Designers Accord. They (we, even as I teach Interaction for design) are early educational adopters – one of only 5 educational institutions worldwide. The Designers Accord envisions a creative community where the principles of sustainable design are seamlessly integrated into all practice and production: Our mission […]
Living Campus Participatory Planning
March 30, 2008
The LivingCampus is is both bottom up and top down. We have leadership from the top (our CEO Phil Ker is very supportive) and have a strong groundswell of support from our community. Incidentally, Phil makes a useful point that we need to move beyond an us (staff) and them (students) and others (oustide) and […]
Missing slides from the LivingCampus slideshow
March 30, 2008
Rob points out that some of the slides from the forum post have gotten lost in the wash (replaced by red squares, suspiciously like half of a pair of socks). Here are the missing images from Michelle Ritchie. Michelle has done a great job of mixing the permaculture design with a themed educational/interaction design. The […]
High level praise for Otago Polytechnic’s education for sustainability
March 16, 2008
Big names have been complimenting Otago Polytechnic on our “every graduate” approach to sustainability. I’m in still in Portland, so here’s the ODT‘s take: OTAGO Polytechnic’s decision to weave ‘‘education for sustainability’’ into all its courses has won high praise from Green MP Metiria Turei and Dr Morgan Williams, the former Parliamentary Commissioner for the […]
Posts from NZAEE (7): John Fien
March 4, 2008
John Fien is Innovation Professor of Sustainability RMIT in Melbourne. He spoke at the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education in Dunedin recently. Fien extended the activity/action distinction made by Bjarne Jensen earlier in the conference. He talked about the Gould League Pledge, but suggests that an equivalent approach in abstinence pledges has had a […]
Computing for Sustainability 
April 7, 2008
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