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Sustainability at the showcase – Windmill management system
At the IT Industry Showcase (part of Otago Polytechnic’s Excite), David Dyer and Owen Miler showed off their capstone project. They developed an integrated system for monitoring and managing the clients’ innovative power generating windmill. As the client’s are not yet at the field-test stage of the actual windmill, the group’s project was to help […]
Sustainability at the showcase – design
November 24, 2008
Design at Otago Polytechnic has gone a long way to incorporate sustainable thinking into its programmes. There’s lots to chose from at the Excite student showcase this week. Talking to the students and lecturers, it is pleasing to hear the extent to which sustainability has become a part of the student ethos. This can […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Sustainability at the student showcases – Team Dunedin
November 24, 2008
Team Dunedin exhibit at Excite We were doing the Excite thing on Saturday. In L-block Phillip Ballard was showing off the Team Dunedin design for Shac. The aim of the Team Dunedin house is to “mainstream sustainable building and living using our houses built on campus”. Team Dunedin is designing and building a […]
Inspiring sustainable practitioner
November 4, 2008
Yesterday we hosted Lizzie Gillet, producer of “The Age of Stupid“. Back in Dunedin for a while, she gave an inspirational talk about the making of the movie. Otago Polytechnic is committed to sustainable education and from 2009 every graduate will have been trained in sustainability practices. With that goal in mind we’re always […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Computing and sustainability in billboard mash-up
October 30, 2008
Today I have been inundated with evidence of the power of computing and its relevance to sustainability. It seems that everyone I know has found the Green’s “make your own Vote for Me billboard“. This is brilliant viral marketing that engages you with their brand message. It seems the very act of looking through your […]
Computing for Sustainability 
November 25, 2008
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