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Otago Polytechnic progress on Education for Sustainability
Yesterday I gave a talk for the Dunedin Sustainble Business Network. Here is the video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3756542993146112906&hl=en
Sustaining all week
December 2, 2007
My diary is full of sustainability this week. Most of Monday is being taken up with meetings to pull together our institution’s Education for Sustainability strategic plan. We have several strands – I’ve been reporting on the curriculum (teaching and learning) here, but there is also much happening in both compost (operations) and community. By […]
Sustainability: hook, line and sinker?
November 26, 2007
Being interested in narratives, I take a lot of pictures of signs. Here are some of them that have a green leaning (Flickr set). This “We believe in sustainable fishing. Hook, line and sinker” would have a very different meaning in NZ than that intended by Marks and Spencer in Bath. Here, the phrase “hook, […]
Streaming Kaikorai plans
November 19, 2007
Dr Simon McMillian is a science teacher at Kaikorai College in Dunedin. We have worked with him previously when he had a Royal Society Fellowship to work on community-based environmental management around the Kaikorai Stream. One of my project groups helped him establish teaching resources based around the installation of a real-time monitoring station in […]
Encouraging a student groundswell
November 13, 2007
We’re writing a section on education for sustainability for our student handbook (for February next year). Here is the draft for the learning angle (which we’re integrating with ‘sustainable campus’ material): Otago Polytechnic is committed to an “every graduate” approach to sustainability. We have adopted sustainability as one our “core capabilities”. This means that we’re […]
Computing for Sustainability 
December 5, 2007
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