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Posts from NZAEE (7): John Fien
John Fien is Innovation Professor of Sustainability RMIT in Melbourne. He spoke at the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education in Dunedin recently. Fien extended the activity/action distinction made by Bjarne Jensen earlier in the conference. He talked about the Gould League Pledge, but suggests that an equivalent approach in abstinence pledges has had a […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Saw Naples
March 4, 2008
Roger Bowden was my partner in geography. In a large group of second year geographers in 1989 there were only a few physical geographers and of that, only two biogeographers. One of them liked soils (Roger), the other plants (me). In third year Roger and I, along with Di Twaddle and Sharon Jack, did our […]
Posted in: sustainability
NZAEE conference notes online
March 4, 2008
I’ve been working through my notes from the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education conference we sponsored in Dunedin recently (Five posts up, three-ish more to go). Most of the conference powerpoints have just been posted by the conference organisers. Note though, that they’re only there until the 1st of May – I hope the […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Working with the integrity of creation to achieve ecological salvation?
March 2, 2008
I’ve been reading an interesting thesis by Xiaming Gong: Church Involvement in Education for Sustainability: Using Participatory Action Research to Design a Faith-based Education for Sustainability Programme in a Christian Community, New Zealand (link, pdf). This is outside my own belief system so apologies in advance if I’ve misinterpreted something here. We’ve been having debates […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, paradigm
Green criteria in purchasing – an example
February 29, 2008
Here is another example of a tender document we responded to last week. This one from a quasi-governmental organisation in NZ (there’s lots of good example statements coming from the Govt3 programme). xxx is committed to sustainable development, and will seek to procure sustainable products, works and services wherever possible. Ref Description Requirement Response […]
Computing for Sustainability 
March 4, 2008
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