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Simple Pledge recognised
Our poster describing the Simple Pledge was “highly commended” at the 22nd NACCQ conference awards this week. Well done everyone. Here’s the poster. And the page from the proceedings:
YouTube juxtaposition exposes National’s Enviroschool hypocrisy
June 22, 2009
In preparing our graduates for careers as sustainable practioners we’ve been grateful for the work going on before us in schools. The Enviroschools programme in particular has been doing amazing work with a whole school approach to education for sustainability. But no more. John Key has cut the funding for Enviroschools from the end of […]
Green as a verb
June 17, 2009
Our Simple Pledge is subtitled “towards sustainable practice”. In explaining what we’re up to, I often use the line: “this is a journey and we might never reach the destination”. There’s similar thoughts in Daniel Goleman’s Ecological Intelligence (Amazon). In an extract in SciAm “Green is a mirage“, Goleman explores the Life Cycle Analysis. […]
Signing the Simple Pledge
June 5, 2009
To celebrate World Environment Day we’ve taken the opportunity to formally launch the book Simple Pledge: Otago Polytechnic’s Journey Towards Sustainability . The book is intended to reinforce the message that this the journey Otago Polytechnic is on, that means you, and yes you can. But we need to do more than simply hand […]
Look out for new slogan: “Computing empowers you to do good”
June 3, 2009
Despite strong career prospects, computing education continues to suffer low student intakes and the rates for women are crazy low (Taulbee report). “Something is wrong with perceptions of computing” can be heard around the halls of every campus and computing conference. The truth may be that something is wrong with computing. There’s a report […]
Computing for Sustainability 
July 18, 2009
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