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Redundant question not wasted
I’ve been interviewed a few times in the past weeks (Beeby Fellow, ODT). I’ve been surprised by the first question asked by every journalist: you’re in computing – that’s not sustainability, how come you’re writing a book about teaching sustainability? My answer “oh I used to be a botanist/geographer” has satisfied the journalists, but […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Greenwash damages credibility of State of Green Business Report
February 10, 2009
Intensity metrics are considered the next big thing in sustainability management and reporting. They attempt to give an indication of the ‘good bang for the bad buck’. Used properly, intensity metrics make more transparent the balancing decisions that face sustainable practitioners. Unfortunately, they can also be used to obfuscate, or greenwash. And it seems […]
Thar’s gold in them thar green businesses
February 10, 2009
The recent State of Green Business report has a few nuggets for us: On education for sustainability: Colleges and universities around the world have long been reducing their environmental footprints, engaging in the same long list of efficiency, recycling, and source-reduction activities taking place among their corporate counterparts. But the greening of the curriculum has lagged. Indeed, a […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, report
Proposed sustainability policy for ACM SIGCSE
February 9, 2009
In the current issue of the ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (Digital Library) we make the case for a SIGCSE policy on Computing Education for Sustainability: Computing and IT underpins every sector of society as a pervasive and influential discipline with global impact. As a result, computing influences the environment and society either positively or negatively. While we have […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, policy
Not much sign of ICT education taking a role in “Sustainable ICT in Higher Education”
January 29, 2009
I agree with almost everything Peter James and Lisa Hopkinson’s study on Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education (first, second, third, fourth posts). Although very long and heavily slanted to provision of IT services in tertiary education, it is second to Madden and Weißbrod’s Connected – ICT and sustainable development (see earlier post) on […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, report
Computing for Sustainability 
February 16, 2009
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