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Transitions, transformations and turnarounds – adding to Visualising Sustainability

February 26, 2026

For several years now, my approach to my summer reading has centred around looking for diagrams of sustainability. The collection, now of 1100 diagrams is here. This year the search got harder, not because the images are harder to find, but the opposite, the field is exploding, and it is becoming quite challenging to find […]

Catching up with Blowing Bubbles

July 28, 2025

Episode 481: Unleashing the Inner Engineering Bubbles – Kelvin Thiele Date: 2023-06-21Summary: 481 – Unleashing the Inner Engineering Bubbles – Kelvin Thiele of Epro8 joins Samuel Mann and Mawera Karetai. With a contribution from Tahu Mackenzie. Listen to Episode Episode 482: Bubbling in Nature – AJ Fedoruk Date: 2023-07-05Summary: 482 – Bubbling in Nature – AJ […]

901…1000 Sustainable Images from Summer Reading

January 27, 2024

I’ve reached the end of my summer reading pile (yes, still got a PhD to assess, and reviewing and …). As I read, I tag papers and sources that have candidate diagrams for this collection. On revisiting, only about half of those get included. I have changed the criteria a bit, I used to be strict – diagrams […]

A woodpecker, a genie and a snake

September 1, 2023

I’m giving a keynote at CompEd in India in December. My working title is “searching for computing’s soul”. I’m using the examples of ethics, sustainability and decolonising in the context of computing education. Very aware of being the white “expert” talking about these things in a colonised country with rich and varied understandings, I went […]

A virus, a pyramid, and a butterfly walked into a sustainable bar…

July 19, 2023

Adding to the collection of diagrams of sustainability. This time we add dimensions – so a triangle becomes a wedge and a pyramid And spirals and links become a pandemic. We finish with an ontological butterfly. 655. PlanetEarth Concept (if the planet is conceived as triangles) (Al-Thour 2016) 656. Washing machine (Mansell 2019) 657. SDGs […]