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YouTube juxtaposition exposes National’s Enviroschool hypocrisy
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
The SimPa story in words
June 11, 2009
Looking back (and forward!), SimPa is quite different to how we first conceived it. Despite these differences, or perhaps because of them, it has far exceeded our expectations. Here’s the first stab at the words to follow the SimPa pictures (these are my personal thoughts, Tori is doing the same, tomorrow they join forces to become […]
The SimPa story in pictures
June 11, 2009
SimPa is our project working with Maori communities to build capacity in digital content to benefit the culture. Close to the end of the funding from the Digital Strategy, we’re awash in reports and milestones. Amidst all the words, we’ve spent time this week developing a visual comparison of where we thought the project would […]
Signing the Simple Pledge
June 5, 2009
To celebrate World Environment Day we’ve taken the opportunity to formally launch the book Simple Pledge: Otago Polytechnic’s Journey Towards Sustainability . The book is intended to reinforce the message that this the journey Otago Polytechnic is on, that means you, and yes you can. But we need to do more than simply hand […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Computing for Sustainability 
June 22, 2009
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