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Saving the earth one byte at a time
Vibrant PostCarbon role for ICT
Over on empyre, there’s a month of discussion about sustainability and new media: “wired sustainability“. Henry Warwick posted this sketch of a paper he’s working on. I think it extreme and I disagree with most of it, but it’s had me thinking all weekend, so I’ve copied it here if just to anchor one end […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, futurecasting
Greenhouse effect warms conversation
April 6, 2008
With apologies to Colin who thinks I should write about computers, here’s a great project from our School of Art. In association with the Dunedin Fringe, Jude Roberston and Clare Fleming are facilitating a community discussion through the media of a small glasshouse on the Museum reserve. The Grow Project is an interactive visual artwork […]
Posted in: LivingCampus, Otago Polytechnic
Posts from SICSE: Lazowska suggests green IT as next space race
April 3, 2008
Ed Lazowska is chair of the Computing Community Consortium. He gave the last keynote at SIGCSE (slides here). He describes the 20 greatest engineering achievements of the 20th Century. Computing is listed, as are electronics and the internet. Perhaps even more important though is the role of computing in ALL of the other achievements from […]
LivingCampus underway
March 31, 2008
On Saturday Otago Polytechnic Leadership Team had a working bee and a major area of focus was getting the LivingCampus underway. Thanks for your support everyone. We’re hoping to get interpretative material up by the end of today (feel free to contribute on the wiki). More images on Flickr. Including this one from Simon which […]
Posted in: LivingCampus, Otago Polytechnic
Living Campus Participatory Planning
March 30, 2008
The LivingCampus is is both bottom up and top down. We have leadership from the top (our CEO Phil Ker is very supportive) and have a strong groundswell of support from our community. Incidentally, Phil makes a useful point that we need to move beyond an us (staff) and them (students) and others (oustide) and […]
April 7, 2008
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