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Picking flowers: visualising sustainable practitioners
We need tools to facilitate computing’s progression from not thinking about sustainability or single issue greenness to a wider adoption of holistic sustainability as part of normal business practice. I’m not thinking here of carbon calculators or energy dashboards – instead we need simple concepts to help people along that journey. Key to this is […]
Skipping back to the future
April 7, 2008
Oh no!, It’s back! Leigh has posted this image of another skip full of computer packaging polystyrene. As we’ve discussed before, the recyclers won’t take it as is no good to them until is part of a closed loop (ie they know exactly what is in it), the reuse stream is choked (although I grabbed […]
Designers engage every client in sustainability while computing checks the light switch (maybe)
April 7, 2008
Our Design School has just been accepted into the Designers Accord. They (we, even as I teach Interaction for design) are early educational adopters – one of only 5 educational institutions worldwide. The Designers Accord envisions a creative community where the principles of sustainable design are seamlessly integrated into all practice and production: Our mission […]
Greenhouse effect warms conversation
April 6, 2008
With apologies to Colin who thinks I should write about computers, here’s a great project from our School of Art. In association with the Dunedin Fringe, Jude Roberston and Clare Fleming are facilitating a community discussion through the media of a small glasshouse on the Museum reserve. The Grow Project is an interactive visual artwork […]
LivingCampus underway
March 31, 2008
On Saturday Otago Polytechnic Leadership Team had a working bee and a major area of focus was getting the LivingCampus underway. Thanks for your support everyone. We’re hoping to get interpretative material up by the end of today (feel free to contribute on the wiki). More images on Flickr. Including this one from Simon which […]
Computing for Sustainability 
April 20, 2008
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