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Green as a verb
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
Look out for new slogan: “Computing empowers you to do good”
June 3, 2009
Despite strong career prospects, computing education continues to suffer low student intakes and the rates for women are crazy low (Taulbee report). “Something is wrong with perceptions of computing” can be heard around the halls of every campus and computing conference. The truth may be that something is wrong with computing. There’s a report […]
Computing for Sustainability 
June 17, 2009
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