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Simple pledge as a powerpoint

April 27, 2009

Here’s the slideshow for the keynote presentation I gave at last week’s Professional Development Conference.

Otago Polytechnic’s Simple Pledge: towards sustainable practice

April 27, 2009

My compilation of images representing sustainability a few weeks back (goal, 158 approaches) was prompted by our desire to tell our story. The result is Otago Polytechnic’s simple pledge to do the right thing – illustrated in a book: Simple Pledge. These pages tell the narrative in words and pictures. The pages facing these ones […]

A sustainable practitioner in… career pathways

March 17, 2009

We’ve spent the past couple of days integrating discipline-based sustainable practitioner words into generic career pathway statements. This has been prompted by the small resource we’re making that celebrates where we’re going in terms of education for sustainability. The primary intention is to reinforce momentum for our own staff and to help build credibility with people […]

Sustainable practitioner updates: Hospitality

December 5, 2008

Here’s Katie Ellwood’s round-up of how hospitality is working towards sustainable practioners: Implementing sustainable practice both operationally and in the curriculum undoubtedly poses challenges for any school or department within the Polytechnic. The School of Hospitality is addressing their particular set of challenges head-on, and can boast significant progress in many areas. Hands-on hospitality training, […]

Update from our friends at SHAC

December 4, 2008

Here’s an update from SHAC: (more detail and lots of pictures in pdf). The goal of sustainable housing for all New Zealanders got a step closer this week. Ten teams of students and professionals released their first peak at designs for a variety of sustainable homes. The Sustainable Habitat Challenge teams will begin their projects […]