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Computing the Eden Project

October 12, 2007

Two things about me: 1. My work is a sometimes strange mix of education, plants and computers. 2. From my being 6 weeks to 9 years old, we lived outside Bodmin in Cornwall. All these things came together for me last week when we visited the Eden Project. What a wonderful place. Perhaps even more […]

ElectroCity: “natural bias” not very natural at all

September 9, 2007

Last week TreeHugger said great things about a New Zealand site last week: “Electrocity: Teaching Kids to Manage Energy, Human Needs Responsibly Through Gaming” Genesis Energy, an energy supplier and retailer in New Zealand has come up with a terrific way of helping kids develop a strong basis on which to develop future knowledge about […]

Biomimicry in software engineering – a super system metaphor?

August 27, 2007

Biomimicry is described as: Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example of this “innovation inspired by nature.” The core idea […]

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 […]