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Working for the earth 5 til 9
I swim regularly with a triathlete who is also a policeman. He works strange hours, some weeks he’s on days, others he calls in for swim on the way home in the early morning. These strange hours are because “crime never sleeps”. Something else that never sleeps is environmental and social degradation. The fight for […]
Slowly getting beyond green IT as new sex
July 23, 2008
It is with mixed emotion that I read Stephen Bell’s (Computerworld) report of a panel at Radar08 last week. Followers of this blog will recognise my theme: Computing and IT underpins every sector of society as a pervasive and influential discipline with global impact. As a result, computing influences the environment and society either positively […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, marketing
Popup Ecozoo
July 17, 2008
I’m a great fan of pop-ups. I use them in teaching interaction design. I have a skeleton for a book that goes like this “computing interactivity is based on the ultimate in paper based design from 30 years ago – the library card or bank book. Most of our HCI aims to replicate that database […]
AAEE in Darwin from Dunedin
July 11, 2008
The Australian Association for Environmental Education Conference is on in Darwin this week. We’ve presented two papers there: Living Campus and an overview of Education for Sustainability at Otago Polytechnic. None of us left Dunedin to participate (except Phil who was in Christchurch), presenting via their online conference systems (instructions). It was good to be […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Sustainable practitioners: update
July 10, 2008
Last year Otago Polytechnic made a commitment that by 2009 “every graduate may think and act as a sustainable practitioner”. At the NACCQ conference last week, we were invited to present a summary of progress twoards this goal. Here’s the paper. It expands on this earlier presentation. Every Graduate Education for Sustainability one year on […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Computing for Sustainability 
July 29, 2008
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