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Climate Change Unfinished or Too Late?
The second Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson talk this week was a panel discussion titled “Climate Change: Unfinished Business”. Two locals, marine ecologist Steve Wing and geologist Garry Wilson) were also panelists but it was clear who the big crowd had come to hear. Here’s my notes (apologies to the participants if I scribbled anything misleading). Brief introductions from the […]
Lonnie Thompson conveniently in Dunedin
September 24, 2008
We’ve been to two Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson talks this week. I was very impressed. The first “Climate change: past present and future” was an overview of their thirty years of research into icecores. The talk took an interesting approach. Thompson didn’t muck around. Two slides at the start cover the contributing factors […]
Inspiring students
September 19, 2008
Otago Polytechnic has made a commitment to quality teaching and learning. Consequently everyone has to hold a qualification in tertiary teaching. I’ve just done my Grad Cert Tertiary Learning and Teaching (Level 7) by assessment of prior learning. It is a reflection on 10 years of teaching software engineering, capstone projects, Simpa and […]
Talk for Tertiary IT Managers conference: Beyond Virtualisation-
September 19, 2008
I gave a talk today at the 26th Annual Tertiary IT Managers conference. “Beyond Virtualisation: what’s next for IT sustainability”. I explored computing and sustainability imperative, particularly in the tertiary sector. We looked at what other disciplines are doing and explored what it might mean to be a sustainable practitioner in computing. We […]
SimPa does the festival
September 18, 2008
We’ve been SimPa-ing at the Otago Maori and Pacific Island festival today. What an amazing event, hundreds, perhaps thousands of kids performing and enjoying a wonderful celebration of diverse cultures. Kids from several of the runaka groups Tori and Amber have been working with were performing. These are from the combined Peninsula schools. […]
Computing for Sustainability 
September 24, 2008
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