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Down to Earth refilled my glass
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
Big picture, little actions
March 16, 2009
In the last few days I’ve been focussed on sustainability imagery. I’ve been taken by the huge variety, but also the constancy of the message – sustainability is big picture thinking, but it’s the little actions that make a difference. The same message is in Michael Lemonick’s really slick article in Scientific […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
April 13, 2009
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