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ASPAC and the Toronto Declaration
I’ve been at ASPAC10, the conference of the Asia Pacific Science and Technology Centres at the Otago Museum. ASPAC is a signatory to the Toronto Declaration that states … science literacy is as important as other forms of literacy and numeracy. It is also a powerful tool for social inclusion. Science centres have relevance to […]
Lessons towards a showcase building
February 23, 2010
We’re starting to retrofit one of our buildings as a showcase of sustainability. I’m thinking about Schendler’s advice to find your biggest lever and pull on it. As an educational institution we need to do more than just have a sustainable building. For us, our biggest lever is to use that building to create a […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Designing for conscious human behaviours for eco-friendly interaction
February 15, 2010
I’m off to CHI in April. Last year I was impressed by all the work going on in Sustainable Interaction Design (see my post on Sohn’s paper). Nearly 12 months later, I’m not so sure. Here’s my position paper for a workshop on SID. Much of the work in Sustainable interaction design (SID) has […]
EfS: separate or integrated? – some readings
December 17, 2009
Wals and Jickling (2002) argued that there is no universal remedy for the reconstruction of education for sustainability. Some institutions, they said, will choose to add on to existing programmes, others will opt for a more revolutionary approach. The European ‘Bologna process’ aims to make academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Update from Dad in Cambodia
November 24, 2009
Here’s an update from my Dad (John Mann) on the work he’s doing for Beaudesert Rotary building schools in the village of Chuor Ph’av, Cambodia (and now, it seems, Koh te Cho). This post is my editing together of five emails – so, sorry Dad if I’ve mixed it up (here’s an earlier update). Dear […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
March 23, 2010
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