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Book launch: The Green Graduate
The challenge: every student graduates able to think and act as a sustainable practitioner, whatever their field. This is the goal Otago Polytechnic set itself and, as one of the main proponents, Samuel Mann became the go-to guy. Here he takes the reader on that journey and in doing so provides the framework for making […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
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.
Trolley morality for Sustainability?
April 26, 2011
April 22nd was Earth Day. The first Earth Day was in the USA in 1970. Prompted by fears of widespread environmental degradation, and promoted by Senator Gaylord Nelson, the “environmental teach-in” that engaged 20 million college students is considered by many to be the beginning of the modern environmental movement. In 1990, Earth Day’s birthday […]
Posted in: ethics
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 […]
Posted in: marketing, visualisingsustainability
Big green button
April 15, 2011
Yesterday I asked how could we market not-buying stuff? I explored three options: trying to be impervious to marketing; removing all marketing; and recognising the value of marketing. In the last of those I pointed to Rory Sutherland’s Ted Talk in which he proposes a big-red impulse saver button. Then I noticed a big red […]
Posted in: marketing
Computing for Sustainability 
June 9, 2011
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