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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 […]

Simple Pledge recognised

July 18, 2009

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 […]