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Posts from NZAEE (2): Environmental Education in NZ
Barry Law from Canterbury University (ex Christchurch Teacher’s College) gave the first keynote at the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education. Barry is the National In-service Coordinator for Education for Sustainability and is also an education adviser to the Enviroschools Foundation so was well known to the conference crowd. Barry gave a history of environmental […]
Posts from NZAEE (1): takata whenua
February 17, 2008
Over the summer I attended the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education in Dunedin (Otago Polytechnic was the major sponsor). Now on this wet Sunday with teaching starting tomorrow, what better opportunity to write up my notes… The opening session was at the Araiteuru Marae. There, after the powhiri and tea we listened to a […]
Software ecosystem, greenwash or new understanding?
February 17, 2008
Last week Computerworld reported IDC’s annual top ten predictions for the NZ computing industry. Number one is the impact of the skills crisis in NZ computing slowing investment. Number five is: Green IT – issues behind the hype will shine through What interests me most is their repeated use of the term “ecosystem”: 3. Emergence […]
Green in top ten predictions
February 16, 2008
This week Computerworld is reporting on “Gartner’s top ten picks for 2008 and beyond“. This is the international list (first is a growth in Apple, second is the growth in internet centric devices, third is the integration of elements of open source into commercial software, etc). More than half the list can be considered to […]
Island thinking
February 10, 2008
We were in Auckland recently and in a spare day took the ferry over to Waiheke Island (think suburb of Auckland). Walking down the street, who should we bump into but our old friend Logan Muller. His family have lived on the island since the 1930s. Logan pointed us to the Waste Resource Trust. This […]
Computing for Sustainability 
February 17, 2008
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