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Award for collaborative research for computing sustainability
Each year the CITRUS Trust gives an award for the best collaborative research in the NZ computing education sector. This year the award recognised our work into computing sustainability – in particular the collaboration between Otago Polytechnic (Samuel Mann and Lesley Smith) and Unitec (Alison Young and Logan Muller). Thank you folks – is a […]
Simple Pledge recognised
July 18, 2009
Our poster describing the Simple Pledge was “highly commended” at the 22nd NACCQ conference awards this week. Well done everyone. Here’s the poster. And the page from the proceedings:
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Our student research rewarded
July 15, 2009
We’re very proud of our capstone projects. This year our students again won the national award for the best student research for the poster describing the virtual antfarm for the Otago Museum. Well done Trevor Farquharson, Jun Cui and Gareth Dorset (and Hamish and Patricia). Here’s the poster that won the student category at the 22nd NACCQ […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
YouTube juxtaposition exposes National’s Enviroschool hypocrisy
June 22, 2009
In preparing our graduates for careers as sustainable practioners we’ve been grateful for the work going on before us in schools. The Enviroschools programme in particular has been doing amazing work with a whole school approach to education for sustainability. But no more. John Key has cut the funding for Enviroschools from the end of […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Green as a verb
June 17, 2009
Our Simple Pledge is subtitled “towards sustainable practice”. In explaining what we’re up to, I often use the line: “this is a journey and we might never reach the destination”. There’s similar thoughts in Daniel Goleman’s Ecological Intelligence (Amazon). In an extract in SciAm “Green is a mirage“, Goleman explores the Life Cycle Analysis. […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
July 19, 2009
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