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Green at 15
At the UN DESD conference I was at the launch of the “Green at Fifteen?, How 15-year-olds perform in environmental science and geoscience in PISA 2006“. Andreas Schleicher and Pablo Zoido presented the examination of the competence of young people, every three years. In the 2006 survey the focus is on science, and in this report […]
Down to Earth refilled my glass
April 13, 2009
My faith was somewhat restored today when I sat down to organise the photos from my trip. There are indeed passionate and committed people in Boston, they’re just hard to find. Fortunately I stumbled on the Boston sustainability expo: Down to Earth (or D2E). While not in the same league as Dott, it […]
Posted in: sustainability
Boston stole my glass
April 13, 2009
Last week I was in Bonn at the UN Education for Sustainable Development Conference. In Bonn I was struck by the wide divergence of what sustainability means to different people. At one session the representative from Malawi (I think) threw her hands up in dismay, saying that the North simply doesn’t get it – […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Sustainability 2.0 doesn’t add up
March 31, 2009
Sustainability = a good thing that requires a radicial shift in thinking Enterprise 2.0 = a good thing that requires a radical shift in thinking. Unfortunately, as every Year 9 student knows, these two statements do not necessarily prove that Enterprise 2.0 = Sustainability. This elementary mistake in logic undermines the value of the otherwise […]
A sustainable practitioner in… career pathways
March 17, 2009
We’ve spent the past couple of days integrating discipline-based sustainable practitioner words into generic career pathway statements. This has been prompted by the small resource we’re making that celebrates where we’re going in terms of education for sustainability. The primary intention is to reinforce momentum for our own staff and to help build credibility with people […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Computing for Sustainability 
April 19, 2009
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