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Sustaining Dunedin’s Heritage
We’re just starting a major project to visualise every Dunedin building, ever. We’re aiming for a 3D immersive environment for any given date (perhaps with a timeline slider). In addition to the general coolness and education value, we’re hoping that it can be used as a modelling tool, say if some wants a new development […]
Sustainable Habitat Challenge
August 15, 2007
The Sustainable Habitat Challenge, or SHaC 09 is a national (New Zealand) challenge for tertiary organisations that aims to develop sustainable solutions. In short: teams of students and their lecturers will research, design and build a new sustainable house over a period of 18 months, to be finished in November 2009. Why am I telling […]
Beginning a dialogue to generate a vision (4)
August 9, 2007
Do we have any local examples that would suit being used as case studies? How can we shift sustainability from a fad to an enduring basis of what we do? Zorn and Collins (earlier post) ask whether is sustainability is “merely a fashion”, with connotations of “frivolousness, an emphasis on aesthetics (particularly superficial or […]
Beginning a dialogue to generate a vision (3)
August 8, 2007
What might be computing’s equivalent of the cradle to cradle approach? What is missing from current graduates that can be expressed as learning outcomes? Schaller (1993) argued that sustainability both benefits from and is hampered by imprecision: “as a destination, sustainability is like truth and justice — concepts not readily captured in concise definitions”. […]
Beginning a dialogue to generate a vision (2)
August 7, 2007
Where are local businesses on Willard’s continuum? Remembering how Bob Willard identifies five stages of an organisations adoption of sustainability. I think these are very useful – it helps give context to problems and decisions. I liked this distinction(full post) Stage 4 companies “do the right things” so that they are successful businesses. Stage 5 […]
Computing for Sustainability 
August 16, 2007
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