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What have we learned? A SustCHI workshop.
The SIGCHI HCI & Sustainability Community will host a workshop as part of CHI 2014, the annual Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. This year’s conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, 26 Apr–1 May. The workshop will be held on either 26 Apr or 27 Apr. Our one-day workshop will gather new […]
Posted in: CHI
Hopeful tourism computing?
November 21, 2013
A couple of weeks a ago I interviewed Tess Brosnan, a film maker who wanted to talk about links between citizen science and hopeful tourism. This led me to read Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan and Irena Ateljevic’s “Hopeful tourism: A new transformative perspective” (pdf). I found myself reading while mentally replacing “tourism” with “computing”. For […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Apple growers, Academics, Activists and an Animator of Lunatics
October 15, 2013
Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio, condensed down to one image. Match six months of speakers and their quotes via the set of images and read more and listen on Sustainablelens.org Which is your favourite quote, and why?
Posted in: Sustainable Lens
There’s a word for that: Anupholesteraphobia
October 15, 2013
I found myself reading a book on music performance (long story). I like this page, and this awesome word: Anupholesteraphobia: The fear of not being able to cover the material. We could replace music with any discipline for quite a bit of insight. In education those of us who advocate Education for Sustainability see it […]
Audaciously sustainable
August 30, 2013
The Audacious Student Business Challenge has expanded this year to encourage business for good with a social enterprise category. It has also moved to encourage wider participation with a new crowd-sourcing platform Skulksource. You can encourage the development of sustainable start-ups by voting for the fledgling businesses such as: Spread the Help: Spread your donation […]
Computing for Sustainability 
November 25, 2013
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