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Not buying on impulse?
Behind every gold wedding ring lies a genuine gold mine, and the possibility of a massive cyanide spill. Behind a tuna steak is a decimated tuna population. Behind a comfortable car is a strip mine, a hundred toxic chemicals leaching into nature, and war in the Middle East. This Alan AtKisson (2008) quote highlights the […]
Posted in: marketing, sustainability
Mahinerangi Wind Farm
April 2, 2011
Mahinerangi Wind Farm, a photo by Samuel Mann on Flickr. We went to the Mahinerangi Wind Farm open day today. I’m still in two minds about the wind farms. On one hand an extremely efficient source of power, on the other an excuse for us not to face the real problem of profligate consumption. On […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio
March 30, 2011
So, let’s make a radio show we said. And make a radio show we’re doing. And it’s a blast. And, dare I say it, it’s good. Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio has now had five shows (podcasts from sustainablelens.org). Each week Anton Angelo, Shane Gallagher and me talk with an invited guest, all through […]
Posted in: Sustainable Lens, sustainable practitioner
City is Right, Right Minister is Wrong
March 22, 2011
In Parliament last week the Finance Minister Bill English was derisive and ill-informed in response to Gareth Hughes’ questioning on New Zealand’s economic vulnerability to Peak Oil (16/3/11 Q12). English dismissed the Dunedin City Council’s “Peak Oil Vulnerability Analysis Report” on the basis of the title alone. But then, if all he read was […]
Posted in: Dunedin
Extra-dimensional sustainability?
March 17, 2011
Last night I went to a talk by Professor Lawrence Krauss (famous for writing, amongst other things – The Physics of Star Trek). The subject of Krauss’ talk was the question of whether there are hidden dimensions and whether there is evidence in the natural (physical world) for them – or is it just something […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, Sustainable Lens
Computing for Sustainability 
April 14, 2011
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