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Borrowing from Terminator: A Sustainable Lens?
Here’s a draft of a position paper we’re working on (numbered references at the end). Feedback most welcome. In this paper we propose a “Sustainable Lens”- both actual and conceptual – to assist in acting as a Sustainable Practitioner. We describe how the complexities of everyday sustainable activities go beyond simple resource visualisations. More abstract […]
Making an inequity worse
February 24, 2011
I find it quite frustrating when bureaucracy gets in the way of a good thing. It is worse when people do things that are wrong, yet claim it is right for reasons of sustainability, or ethics, or equity. Here’s my letter to the Dunedin City Council regarding their recent and unfortunate tinkering with the city’s […]
Posted in: Dunedin
Grand Challenges for Sustainability Science demand a change in approach
November 16, 2010
I’m really impressed with the integrative approach taken in the Grand challenges for Earth Sustainability Science report from International Council for Science and the International Social Science Council. I like the five grand challenges (below), but even more, I like the strong statement for a need for a change in approach. The report starts by […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, sustainability
Minds at Rest
November 10, 2010
Our friend Tess Brosnan filed this story on today’s historic neurosurgery decision for the facebook group Keep Neurosurgery in Dunedin. It is too good to hide only on facebook, so with her permission I’ve posted it here. SM A former Dunedin Neurosurgery patient, Casey Coombes, described her 8 years of recovery following surgery as an […]
Posted in: Dunedin
Dunedin Neurosurgery: a win for people power
November 10, 2010
Dunedin not only keeps, but expands its neurosurgery service. This decision will ensure that the South will continue to have a safe and viable neurosurgery service for decades to come. I’m really hopeful that this process sets the benchmark in both process and outcome: Process: This process was (eventually) a model of rational consideration and […]
Posted in: Dunedin
Computing for Sustainability 
February 24, 2011
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