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Global Role Award Winner: Otago Polytechnic for its Education for Sustainability Programme
It’s blowing our own trumpet time again. We just won a major award: the ITPNZ Global Role Award marking excellence for a practice that materially prepares New Zealanders to live and work in the wider world. Here’s the ITPNZ press release: (link and below). Much of this text is taken from the nomination (pdf). Otago […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
“We don’t have to, the other guys do it” – modelling EfS in programmes
August 26, 2008
Most people we talk with are very happy to include Education for Sustainability in their programmes, perhaps in part due to our Sustainable Practitioner approach. It’s the next step that gets difficult – integrating EfS into individual courses. Here’s a typical response: “Oh yes, that’s very important to us, the hardware people have got it […]
An A-Z of the 4th R of Reduce-Reuse-Recycle
August 26, 2008
Yesterday’s post about paper was titled Most important of the three Rs, by which I meant Reduce (and, by happy coincidence – Reading). Leigh added a 4th R: “Replace: if your sources are non sustainable”. I know that there are sometimes 4 or more Rs but most people refer to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (waste hierarchy, […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, sustainability
Most important of the three Rs
August 25, 2008
We’re on the first of the three R’s today. Both the Reading one and the Reduce one. We’ve been doing some analysis on our paper use. Before you scroll down, take a shot at working out how much paper we use in this institution. Three ways of thinking about it: 1. Total number of pages? […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Simpa as a model of partnership
August 18, 2008
Last month Khyla Russell presented a paper at the Oxford Round Table. The basis of the paper is an examination of the interaction of cultures, with our Simpa project as the main case study. Here’s a working version of the paper. It may eventually form a formal publication (in part or whole), so please contact […]
Posted in: Otago Polytechnic, SimPa
August 27, 2008
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