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Muller and Hatch, orators and entrepreneurs
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 […]
Posts from ACTS: Neil Barnes
October 7, 2008
Dr Neil Barns gave one of the keynotes at the Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability conference in Christchurch last week. Barns is the CEO of CPIT, his talk focussed on the challenges and opportunities education for sustainability presents to a tertiary institution. In short, he describes an approach of developing a vision with the governance […]
eDay Dunedin
October 4, 2008
Flickr pics We called down to the Dunedin branch of eDay today. It was fantastically organised and everyone was in good spirits – well done Cath and Ros. Here’s the slideshow. I was struck by the volume of CRT monitors (far exceeding the number of boxes). Many of the screens seemed to be […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 12, 2008
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