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89 reasons not to teach sustainability

October 13, 2007

As you know, we’re on track to integrate sustainability across the curriculum by 2009. We’re trying to identify all the barriers to achieving that (so that we can work to reduce these hurdles). What other reasons have we missed? 1 Sustainability isn’t a real problem 2 Sustainability not a concern of my discipline 3 sustainability […]

Computing the Eden Project

October 12, 2007

Two things about me: 1. My work is a sometimes strange mix of education, plants and computers. 2. From my being 6 weeks to 9 years old, we lived outside Bodmin in Cornwall. All these things came together for me last week when we visited the Eden Project. What a wonderful place. Perhaps even more […]

SHaC09 spawns green challenge for computing students

September 12, 2007

I’ve previously posted about the Sustainable Habitat Challenge. This is the New Zealand sustainable building challenge to be held over the next couple of years. I’m on the SHaC steering committee. This gave us the opportunity to volunteer to develop the computer system to support the teams and administration of ShaC. This work is being […]

ElectroCity – fears confirmed

September 11, 2007

I’ve spent two days playing ElectroCity. Engaging? Yes. Balanced? No. Green? Not even nearly. Prompted by TreeHugger’s praise then questioning of ElectroCity, I posted a review of the instructions to the game. Today, let’s play the game with green glasses. The starting point for the game is a low population in a rural area, serviced […]

ElectroCity: “natural bias” not very natural at all

September 9, 2007

Last week TreeHugger said great things about a New Zealand site last week: “Electrocity: Teaching Kids to Manage Energy, Human Needs Responsibly Through Gaming” Genesis Energy, an energy supplier and retailer in New Zealand has come up with a terrific way of helping kids develop a strong basis on which to develop future knowledge about […]