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Simple pledge as a powerpoint
Here’s the slideshow for the keynote presentation I gave at last week’s Professional Development Conference.
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic’s Simple Pledge: towards sustainable practice
April 27, 2009
My compilation of images representing sustainability a few weeks back (goal, 158 approaches) was prompted by our desire to tell our story. The result is Otago Polytechnic’s simple pledge to do the right thing – illustrated in a book: Simple Pledge. These pages tell the narrative in words and pictures. The pages facing these ones […]
Mix and match: ICT and future scenarios
April 27, 2009
Sometimes the best things happen by accident. In yesterday’s post I explored Forum for the Future’s Acting now for a positive 2018, preparing for radical change (report pdf). They present four scenarios of what the world might look like in ten years’ time with ICT getting a special consideration in each scenario. I meant to […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, futurecasting
Nice scenarios to follow NICE decade
April 27, 2009
Forum for the Future has done it again with an extremely interesting Acting now for a positive 2018, preparing for radical change (report pdf). They present four scenarios of what the world might look like in ten years’ time. ICT gets a special consideration in each scenario. First though, they recap the last ten […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, futurecasting
Occupational theme and sustainability worldview?
April 24, 2009
I’m wondering today if there is a link between occupational preferences and sustainability? I was prompted there by an interesting report in the latest Communications of the ACM. LeeAnne Coder and her colleagues report on a study of 500 graduates in Kansas. They were interested in exploring the extent to which “the dearth of […]
Computing for Sustainability 
April 27, 2009
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