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The Wombles were right all along
In talking about what it means to be a sustainable practitioner, we use the example of a chainsaw operator: We characterise this by asking departments to consider their equivalent to this story: forestry worker attending a hypothetical Level 2 chainsaw maintenance course. As part of that course the future chainsaw operators are taught all about […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Education needs to transform to model living with ambiguity and uncertainty
September 22, 2009
Here’s my favourite quotes from Anne Phillip’s chapter Institutional transformation in the Handbook of Sustainable Literacy. The whole book is available online from University of Brighton. The educational system, of course, is at the heart of our current unsustainable society, being both its product and its creator It is probable that the people taking the […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
IBM’s Green Data Center Degree not even nearly green
September 17, 2009
I’ve been sent this link several times in the past few days: IBM Launches First Two-Year Green Data Center Degree. What do I think, should we do this? Unless I’m missing something, I’m very disappointed by these degrees. This is exactly the sort of development that gives the computing profession a bad image. Green data […]
Many hands
September 9, 2009
We’ve been testing user experiences for the e350 project today. We’re developing software to support the Dunedin 350 campaign. Our development process focuses on the user experience, so today we tested those experiences with paper. I think this is the most useful part of the development process (see last year’s reflections on the paper-based prototyping […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
The plot to destroy the planet in the meantime
September 6, 2009
Keep partying, the cavalry’s just round the corner – and they’re dressed in miracle green. I’ve been reading Brian Dumaine’s “The plot to save the planet: How visionary entrepreneurs and corporate Titans are creating real solutions to global warming”. I’m pleased I read it after going to Susan Krumdieck’s talk last week. This book […]
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Computing for Sustainability 
September 23, 2009
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