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Education needs to transform to model living with ambiguity and uncertainty
Here’s my favourite quotes from Anne Phillip’s chapter Institutional transformation in the Handbook of Sustainable Literacy. The whole book is available online from University of Brighton. The educational system, of course, is at the heart of our current unsustainable society, being both its product and its creator It is probable that the people taking the […]
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 […]
September 22, 2009
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