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On not finding a useful image
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 […]
Some of my favourite Ray Anderson quotes
August 12, 2011
I did a piece on Ray Anderson on Sustainable Lens last night. Here’s some of my favourite quotes: On more happiness and less stuff: More happiness with less stuff, all made sustainably. (via Environmental Leader) On waste: The industrial system takes too much, extracting and frittering away Earth’s natural capital on wants, not needs,” […]
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DIY “Essay”
July 29, 2011
This year I’m teaching Web1 (1 because it is in first year, the subject matter is Web2.0). The course has a large project that generates 50% of the marks. Another 30% is for achievement of weekly learning outcomes – this is entirely self and peer assessed through a collaborative learning approach – all their […]
A wishlist for sustainable computing?
July 21, 2011
Last week we won the CITRENZ Award for Research for our paper “A research framework for sustainable software“. In this paper we propose a Sustainable Lens as the basis for a research agenda. This Sustainable Lens could be an actual augmented reality headset, or it might be a way of describing how we see the […]
Computing for Sustainability 
August 15, 2011
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