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Spot the Greenwash
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 […]
Hey, I got an award!
December 8, 2007
At the Otago Polytechnic Graduation. For “Excellence in Sustainable Practices”. Cool bananas, must be doing something right. Dave got one too, for his flexible teaching.
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic progress on Education for Sustainability
December 5, 2007
Yesterday I gave a talk for the Dunedin Sustainble Business Network. Here is the video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3756542993146112906&hl=en
Of course the twitching always gets more intense at the end of the evening
December 2, 2007
IFTF recently posted Visualizing Future Stories: A Day in the Life of a Designer, 2030: Tom Klinkowstein and Irene Pereyra‘s exhibit of their wall-sized diagram called “A Day in the Life of a Networked Designer’s Smart Things or A Day in a Designer’s Networked Smart Things, 2030” (link to pdf) This is a stunning piece […]
Computing for Sustainability 
December 10, 2007
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