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Sustainable computing on the radio (and Pod)
I run a weekly sustainability-focussed radio show “Sustainable Lens: resilience on radio“. At CHI 2012 I took the opportunity to record conversations with an amazing group of colleagues working at the intersection of sustainability and technology. The shows are scheduled for the next six weeks: May 31st: Dr Bill Tomlinson (these links to their homepages, […]
Posted in: Sustainable Lens
Design for developing scientific inquiry
May 22, 2012
At CHI recently I met with Michael Gubbels who is a graduate student in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland. Michael and his colleagues are working on SINQ: Scientific INQuiry Learning using Social Media. This is exciting work. Promoting the process of scientific inquiry in this manner is aligned with the PISA study’s Green […]
Posted in: design
Could Google Glasses be sustainable?
April 5, 2012
The potential for a real Sustainable Lens suddenly got very real. Google’s Project Glass getting real (well, real as in concept video). AR has been around for a long time, what’s exciting is the consumer focussed seamless integration. From a development perspective the tools move into the realm of App development rather than that of […]
Posted in: Sustainable Lens, visualisingsustainability
Bet you didn’t know this about the Iron Lady
March 16, 2012
This week I went to a great talk by Prof Jonathan Boston on the politics of global climate change. Here are some of the slides. [gigya src=”http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649″ width=”500″ flashvars=”offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=/photos/21218849@N03/sets/72157629587633289/show/&page_show_back_url=/photos/21218849@N03/sets/72157629587633289/&set_id=72157629587633289&jump_to=” allowFullScreen=”true” ] I have to confess that his last slide was a surprise to me. While American right-wing denials fill our media we have failed to […]
Posted in: climatechange, politics
Computing for Sustainability 
May 30, 2012
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