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A world without sustainability?
“It’s pretty, but is it art?” asks the Devil in Rudyard Kipling’s The Conundrum of the Workshops. The Dunedin foreshore has recently had the addition of a set of giant carved molar teeth, funded by a public art grant from the Council. Much of the Dunedin public is up in arms – “they’re hideous” claim […]
Lessons towards a showcase building
February 23, 2010
We’re starting to retrofit one of our buildings as a showcase of sustainability. I’m thinking about Schendler’s advice to find your biggest lever and pull on it. As an educational institution we need to do more than just have a sustainable building. For us, our biggest lever is to use that building to create a […]
EfS: separate or integrated? – some readings
December 17, 2009
Wals and Jickling (2002) argued that there is no universal remedy for the reconstruction of education for sustainability. Some institutions, they said, will choose to add on to existing programmes, others will opt for a more revolutionary approach. The European ‘Bologna process’ aims to make academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and […]
Congratulations everyone involved in the Sustainable Habitat Challenge
November 23, 2009
I had the honour of being the warm-up act at the Sustainable Habitat Challenge Awards dinner on Friday (see ODT list of winners). It was a fantastic night, and not just because of the wine, music and train ride. The projects described were fabulous. Although I appreciated the “alternative” buildings, the ones I enjoyed […]
Software Engineering class explores our handprint
November 19, 2009
Our software engineering students have proven again that computing can make a bigger contribution than energy in the data centre. We’ve been working with the Dunedin 350 campaign. All semester, groups have been working with their client – Ella Lawton – to develop systems to raise awareness and engage people in climate change. […]
Computing for Sustainability 
May 31, 2010
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