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Towards Sustainable Practitioners
Nine months ago, Otago Polytechnic set a goal of “that every graduate may think and act as a “sustainable practitioner”. This notion of sustainable practitioner very much puts what we are doing into the context of each discipline. We just had a review session where every head of department told us about progress towards this […]
Accountant turns both left and green
May 11, 2008
This week I attended a public lecture by Graham Crombie who is a Dunedin accountant and president of the NZ Chartered Accountants. Organised by the Otago Polytechnic Business School, Graham’s talk was entitled “Thinking about change”. In it he considered a wide variety of factors affecting his accountancy firm, concluding with lessons for the Polytechnic […]
Beyond the lean to the heart of computing
May 2, 2008
I’m on the committee for an exciting new conference that takes computing “beyond sustainability” . Hearttech08 aims to go deeper than our current attempts at green IT which as Raskino points out usually are code for “lean IT”. Instead we hope to explore the heart of technology and technology education. Logan Muller is chair (remember […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Compulsory reading: Connected ICT and Sustainable Development
April 22, 2008
The Forum for the Future’s Connected: ICT and sustainable development should be compulsory reading for anyone making, using or applying computing (hey, that’s all of us!). Here’s why: a) It is about computing and sustainability. If we apply ICT well, the rewards could be enormous. It could help to enhance creativity and innovation to solve […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Picking flowers: visualising sustainable practitioners
April 20, 2008
We need tools to facilitate computing’s progression from not thinking about sustainability or single issue greenness to a wider adoption of holistic sustainability as part of normal business practice. I’m not thinking here of carbon calculators or energy dashboards – instead we need simple concepts to help people along that journey. Key to this is […]
Computing for Sustainability 
May 12, 2008
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