Subscribe:
RSS feed
Saving the earth one byte at a time
Browsing All Posts filed under »Education for Sustainability«
Accountant turns both left and green
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 […]
Designers engage every client in sustainability while computing checks the light switch (maybe)
April 7, 2008
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 […]
May 11, 2008
0