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Sustainability through the years

October 5, 2011

So there I was, trying to figure out how to get Endnote/Word to give me full references sorted by page number of my book (watch this space, book is very nearly done) and I accidentally generated the references sorted by year. And then I spent some time exploring them ordered this way. Here they are: […]

On not finding a useful image

August 15, 2011

I’ve spent the day looking in vain for visual representations of Commoner/Ehrlich/Holdren’s IPAT equation: Impact on the Planet = Population X Affluence X Technology (IPAT) or I = P * A * T or in words: Environmental degradation = population × consumption per person × damage per unit of consumption Ray Anderson argued that equation […]

Research agenda for a real sustainable lens

May 26, 2011

If the military can have “terminator vision” why can’t sustainability? Mainly because we don’t have specifications for such a device, nor even a wishlist. In these slides for our talk at Collaborative Technology Systems (CTS 2011), we explore what it might mean to augment the world with a sustainable perspective.

Circles sink button

April 18, 2011

Over the last few days I’ve been exploring how we might promote “not-buying stuff”. I thought I had hit on it with a big green button for “impulse sustainability”, but then undid myself with the realisation that we don’t really know what such a button would do – or even if it could. This series […]

Borrowing from Terminator: A Sustainable Lens?

February 24, 2011

Here’s a draft of a position paper we’re working on (numbered references at the end). Feedback most welcome. In this paper we propose a “Sustainable Lens”- both actual and conceptual – to assist in acting as a Sustainable Practitioner. We describe how the complexities of everyday sustainable activities go beyond simple resource visualisations. More abstract […]