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Challenge: a vision of sustainable computing professionals
A driver for the sustainability of a discipline is a sustainability statement for that discipline. A useful step is for stakeholders to work together to produce a vision of their discipline. Cortese (1998) challenged engineers to envision a sustainable future and then challenged them to articulate their role, in designing the new future, in achieving […]
Posted in: CfS - TheGood
Foreign Policy’s photo essay on E-waste
May 21, 2007
While perhaps not giving the scale element of Chris Jordan’s “Intolerable Beauty“, Natalie Behring’s “Inside the Digital Dump” certainly provides the human element. “Technology drives the forces of globalization. But when we replace our computers and flat-screens with the newest in high-tech cool, what happens to the hardware we throw away? Welcome to the digital […]
Posted in: CfS-TheBad
CfS workshop at national computing educators conference.
May 18, 2007
2005-2014 has been declared the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Sustainable development was defined by the Bruntland Commission in 1987 as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”The call to address these issues is supported from the highest levels […]
Computing for Sustainability 
May 21, 2007
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