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Sustainability: hook, line and sinker?
Being interested in narratives, I take a lot of pictures of signs. Here are some of them that have a green leaning (Flickr set). This “We believe in sustainable fishing. Hook, line and sinker” would have a very different meaning in NZ than that intended by Marks and Spencer in Bath. Here, the phrase “hook, […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, narrative
Defender 70% Computer 6%
November 26, 2007
I saw a programme last night that featured the Land Rover Defender. In it they argued that 70% of the Defenders ever built are still on the road (and hopefully off the road). Now, I don’t want to get into any arguments about the sustainabilityness of 4x4s, but that is an amazing statistic. I can’t […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Te Reo o Otakou: telling stories, building capabilities, connecting people and landscapes
November 23, 2007
There are a thousand stories to tell of the ancestors’ exploits. Stories of romance and battles, exploration and betrayal, adventure and sadness… We are aware that, over the years, many ancestors have left the kaik’, the local village, and now thousands of our relations are spread all over the world unable to return when they […]
Streaming Kaikorai plans
November 19, 2007
Dr Simon McMillian is a science teacher at Kaikorai College in Dunedin. We have worked with him previously when he had a Royal Society Fellowship to work on community-based environmental management around the Kaikorai Stream. One of my project groups helped him establish teaching resources based around the installation of a real-time monitoring station in […]
Encouraging a student groundswell
November 13, 2007
We’re writing a section on education for sustainability for our student handbook (for February next year). Here is the draft for the learning angle (which we’re integrating with ‘sustainable campus’ material): Otago Polytechnic is committed to an “every graduate” approach to sustainability. We have adopted sustainability as one our “core capabilities”. This means that we’re […]
Computing for Sustainability 
November 26, 2007
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