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Posts from ACTS: Lesley Stone – a wishlist for EfS
Dr Lesley Stone spoke about a wishlist for tertiary education for sustainability at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. Lesley is the Envrionmental Coordinator at the University of Auckland. In her presentation she explored the findings of her 2006 paper “Progress and pitfalls in the provision of tertiary education for sustainable development inNew […]
The Wall at Te Papa
October 16, 2008
There’s a great new interactive exhibit at Te Papa. The Wall is part of a big new development “Our Space”. I stood and watched people interacting with the wall for ages. Much of the time they were playing with the technology but unconciously perhaps they’re telling the story of New Zealand(ers). It’s not […]
Muller and Hatch, orators and entrepreneurs
October 12, 2008
My friend Logan Muller is a brilliant speaker. He uses appreciative inquiry to move people to a position of wanting to do something to improve the world. As part of this he uses a device of simultaneously looking forward and back. To summarise (and without the eloquence or passion), in 30 years […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, Logan Muller
Posts from ACTS: David Thompson on 3D sustainability
October 7, 2008
David Thompson spoke about 3D sustainability at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. He got a mixed reception. Some hadn’t seen SecondLife before and were impressed. Others gave him quite a hard time. They picked up on his “gee, second life is cool, you should use it for sustainability” and probed […]
Posts from ACTS: Jennifer McMillin engages students
October 7, 2008
Jennifer McMillin from ANUgreen spoke at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. Jennifer talked about Engaging students in campus sustainability: learning experiences, using campus as laboratory. The focus of her talk was ways of engaging the majority of students who “don’t come looking for courses on sustainability”. This has benefits as a learning […]
October 16, 2008
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