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Simpa diaries

August 27, 2008

We’re busily working with runaka on the Simpā project. Tori and Amber are helping communities build capabilities in digital media as part of engaging in their own narratives. Tori writes up brief notes of each session, and with her permission, I thought I’d share some of them with you. These document a project of combining […]

Global Role Award Winner: Otago Polytechnic for its Education for Sustainability Programme

August 27, 2008

It’s blowing our own trumpet time again. We just won a major award: the ITPNZ Global Role Award marking excellence for a practice that materially prepares New Zealanders to live and work in the wider world. Here’s the ITPNZ press release: (link and below). Much of this text is taken from the nomination (pdf). Otago […]

“We don’t have to, the other guys do it” – modelling EfS in programmes

August 26, 2008

Most people we talk with are very happy to include Education for Sustainability in their programmes, perhaps in part due to our Sustainable Practitioner approach. It’s the next step that gets difficult – integrating EfS into individual courses. Here’s a typical response: “Oh yes, that’s very important to us, the hardware people have got it […]

Most important of the three Rs

August 25, 2008

We’re on the first of the three R’s today. Both the Reading one and the Reduce one. We’ve been doing some analysis on our paper use. Before you scroll down, take a shot at working out how much paper we use in this institution. Three ways of thinking about it: 1. Total number of pages? […]

Simpa as a model of partnership

August 18, 2008

Last month Khyla Russell presented a paper at the Oxford Round Table. The basis of the paper is an examination of the interaction of cultures, with our Simpa project as the main case study. Here’s a working version of the paper. It may eventually form a formal publication (in part or whole), so please contact […]