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IBM’s Green Data Center Degree not even nearly green

September 17, 2009

I’ve been sent this link several times in the past few days: IBM Launches First Two-Year Green Data Center Degree. What do I think, should we do this? Unless I’m missing something, I’m very disappointed by these degrees. This is exactly the sort of development that gives the computing profession a bad image. Green data […]

Young scientists fairly good at sustainability

August 24, 2009

There was a strong sustainability theme at the Otago Science and Technology Fair this weekend. Here’s some that caught my eye (flickr slideshow). There’s about an even split of chemistry, physics and botany but very little zoology. Alternative energy was by far the strongest theme within what I would characterise as physics/engineering. Most of these […]

Can’t rely on geeks

July 26, 2009

Last week we won an award (Best Paper NACCQ and Alison Young Cup) for our research into the sustainability understandings of computing student intakes. The paper (here) is quite dense so here’s a summarised version of some key findings: 539 new students at Otago Polytechnic responded to a survey aimed understanding their attitudes towards sustainability. […]

Tell me when you stop agreeing…

July 24, 2009

When we were rolling out the Simple Pledge we spent the day talking, one after the other, to several hundred staff and students. Some signed straight away, others first wanted to talk about what it means to be a sustainable practitioner and about education for sustainability. It’s amazing how repeating the same discussuion in […]

Award for collaborative research for computing sustainability

July 19, 2009

Each year the CITRUS Trust gives an award for the best collaborative research in the NZ computing education sector. This year the award recognised our work into computing sustainability – in particular the collaboration between Otago Polytechnic (Samuel Mann and Lesley Smith) and Unitec (Alison Young and Logan Muller). Thank you folks – is a […]