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Challenge for anyone who uses a computer
Here’s a challenge to give to folks who start quoting the environmental friendliness of their latest computer. All new computers and especially laptops come with claims of “green” and most laptop users are pretty smug about their energy use. This map shows the sources of the components of a typical laptop. It’s a Sourcemap representation […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Need to mobilise submissions for sustainability in higher education (NZ)
October 17, 2009
The draft Tertiary Education Strategy is out for consultation. It gives direction to NZ’s tertiary education for the next five years. The draft is weak on sustainability: it’s alluded to in the higher level statements but missing in the directions for teaching and learning. As it stands, institutions will not see sustainability as an imperative, […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, government
September 25th should live in infamy
September 25, 2009
Today is Earth Overshoot Day. This is not a day to celebrate. Calculated by the Global Footprint Network, Earth Overshoot Day shows the day on which our total Ecological Footprint (measured in global hectares) is equal to the biocapacity (also measured in global hectares) that nature can regenerate in that year. For the rest of […]
Posted in: sustainability, visualisingsustainability
Values and hope combine in Earth Charter for teaching
September 25, 2009
In my getting-so-much-closer book, I examine barriers to integrating Education for Sustainability. Two of those barriers can be characterised as “My classroom is value neutral” and “Sustainability is too negative, and without vision” Jeffrey Newman addresses both of these barriers in Values reflection and the Earth Charter in the new Handbook of Sustainable Literacy. The […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Changing habits of thought
September 24, 2009
Stephen Sterling argues that we need to think ecologically (Ecological intelligence from Handbook of Sustainable Literacy). He says that this is more than systems thinking, it has an embedded caring: So ecological thinking – reflected in ecophilosophy – is essentially relational or connective thinking, but it’s also more than that: it is ethical, valuative, and […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
October 18, 2009
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