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Need to make it easier to reach for the medium hanging fruit
Major climate change report released today by the UK and UK Consumer organisations. Here’s my take. 1. People are aware of the problem Climate change is a mainstream consumer issue. Consumers in the US and UK are strongly concerned about global warming, and are ready to take action. Sixty six percent of consumers in the […]
Computing supporting environmental education
June 21, 2007
So much of what we see about computing and sustainability is about the bad, or at least people trying to be less bad. So here’s a good news story, computing supporting environmental education. It describes a successful partnership between students of Otago Polytechic’s Bachelor of Information Technology and the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre. The […]
Posted in: CfS - TheGood, Computing for Sustainability
We could learn lots from teachgreenpsych
June 18, 2007
Thanks to Anelibrary I’ve been looking at this really nice set of resources www.teachgreenpsych.com. Described as “Teaching Psychology for Sustainability: A Manual of Resources“, the creators state that their purpose in creating this site… is to provide a resource to help instructors begin integrating psychology and environmental issues in their courses. The site has a […]
Changing behaviours…
June 18, 2007
I’m working in two areas at the moment, a survey of sustainability values/behaviours; and an approach for integrating education for sustainability across the institution. This latter area is as much about a process as structure – how do we get academics from computing, midwifery, engineering and sports (to name a few) all excited about the […]
Why just climate savers?
June 17, 2007
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative aims to reduce power consumption by computers by 50% by 2010. With a swish design and press releases from several big companies the group should go far. The goal of the new broad-based environmental effort is to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting aggressive new targets for […]
June 23, 2007
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