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Proposed sustainability policy for ACM SIGCSE

February 9, 2009

In the current issue of the ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (Digital Library) we make the case for a SIGCSE policy on Computing Education for Sustainability: Computing and IT underpins every sector of society as a pervasive and influential discipline with global impact. As a result, computing influences the environment and society either positively or negatively. While we have […]

Footprints and longfins

September 9, 2008

Last night we went to a talk by Metiria Turei about the dramatic collapse in New Zealand’s endemic eel population, the longfin in particular. Metiria showed an outstanding film by students from the Science and Natural History filmmaking programme of the the Centre for Science Communication. Lindsay Davidson and Melissa Salpietra’s Longfin (mp4 24mins) is a […]

Committed to an “Every Graduate” approach to Education for Sustainability

August 23, 2007

In April this year Otago Polytechnic Academic Board approved the development of core capabilities. “Sustainability” is one of these capabilities (along with literacy, numeracy etc). Yesterday, Academic Board agreed to an implementation plan to ensure that every graduate may think and act as a “sustainable practitioner” (both thinking and acting highlighting the balance between cognitive […]

Q: What is great to see but unfortunately only half green?

August 20, 2007

A: The Australian Computing Society’s Green ICT Policy The CfS Agenda places a high priority on engaging with professional and industry groups to articulate computing’s response to sustainability. This, then, is very exciting: Environmental considerations are set to become an integral part of the professional conduct, practice and ethical considerations that ICT professionals will bring […]

Sticks and Stones and Mining’s Sustainability Guidelines

July 30, 2007

It must be hard to represent the least sustainable of industries. The (US) National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) represents the extractive industries: NSSGA is the largest mining association by product volume in the world and represents the crushed stone, sand and gravel-or aggregate-industries. Our member companies produce more than 92 percent of the […]