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Dynamic visualisations for telling sustainability stories
What makes the Story of Stuff so appealing? (despite content that increasingly frustrates). It is basically a talking head with some animated diagrams: essentially a lecture with a whiteboard. This has been a passion of mine for a while. Lecturers are challenged to deliver courses in new ways: online; distance; asynchronous; interactive. Yet for many, […]
Stunning but sensationalist
December 14, 2007
I’ve have had the same fat white computer monitor on my desk for 5 years. My co-worker just got a new computer. She has a flat shiny sleek flat screen monitor. It matches her computer, it matches her phone, even her pen stand. [It looks cool.] She looks like she is driving in space ship […]
Guide does more than paper over cracks
December 11, 2007
There’s a useful guide out today from Metafore and the The Gagliardi Group . The Paper Consumer’s Guide to Climate Change (pdf) describes the role that paper and its forest-based lifecycle play in the greenhouse gas processes, and shows “how paper purchasers can take the initiative to tip the scales toward lower emissions”. Papers are […]
Spot the Greenwash
December 10, 2007
Here’s something else for the “low hanging curricula“. All students should be able to recognise these “Six Sins of Greenwashing” from Terrachoice (pdf, and podcast on Greenbiz radio). Green·wash (grēn’wŏsh’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service. We’ve […]
Participatory decision making the real potential for GIS in Sustainability
December 10, 2007
Jeff Thurston discusses the Connection of GIS to Sustainability and Matt Ball followed up with some interesting observations about GIS and its role in sustainability: I firmly believe that if we get the infrastructure part right, meaning that we invest in a core set of needed infrastructure, then we will be solving a large part […]
Computing for Sustainability 
December 17, 2007
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