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“they all seem good”: need for a green computer RFP template
Short story: Green IT is rapidly reaching saturation. We are now at the stage of computing practitioners having to chose between green options. This is good but some guidelines are desperately needed. Longer story: Forrester‘s recently published research on green IT has been reported as “Green meets deaf ears in IT” and Green issues overlooked […]
Shape of Education for Computing Sustainability: 1
June 1, 2007
The ACM is asking for contributions to their review of the computing curricula. What might be the shape of sustainable computing curricula? Institutions committed to sustainability often prominently feature certain topics in their course offerings, e.g. Globalization and Sustainable Development; Environmental Philosophy; Nature Writing; Land Ethics and Sustainable Agriculture; Urban Ecology and Social Justice; Population, […]
Posted in: CfS - TheGood, Education for Sustainability
The skip and a working system (almost)
May 29, 2007
The skip (again). We have this skip, it causes much angst: poor attempt to meet those basic 6th grade principles. No attempt to reduce the packaging that our consumables are delivered in. No attempt to reuse the waste, and certainly no attempt to recycle it. This prompted me to write about the need for empowerment […]
Posted in: CfS-TheBad
A skip, a woodsman’s annual examination and the computer technician
May 27, 2007
Leigh posted this image of a skip outside our work. This skip has become somewhat of a symbol for all that is wrong with our attempts at sustainability. It has been there for months, usually filled with building detritus, sometimes computing packaging (as in the photo), and, for a while, the contents of science labs […]
Posted in: CfS-TheBad, Education for Sustainability
Sustainabilityness of Tate’s Sustainable Software Development
May 25, 2007
In Capitalism 3.0 Barnes used computing as a metaphor for a paradigm change in the world’s operating system. This gives us a new twist: at an abstract level (rather than infrastructural) to what extent are computing and sustainability already intertwined? Software engineering has perhaps already adopted a sustainable approach without explicitly realising it – Agile […]
Posted in: CfS/SfC
Computing for Sustainability 
June 3, 2007
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