Category Archives: sustainability

EDCMOOC: Utopia, as x approaches c

There’s a lot to like about the EDCMOOC currently running in Coursera. It’s probably the closest thing I’ve seen to a cMOOC on an xMOOC platform. That said, the platform hinders its greatness. This course would be just about perfect if it existed entirely on the open web. Indeed, much of it does. I like… Read More »

Listening to @Noiseprofessor talk about Forest Gardening

Session by @Noiseprofessor Tuesday February 28, broadcast on #ds106radio He’s BIG on propagation and only interested in plants you can eat. When choosing forest garden plants, consider useful plants; that are useful for food, fibre, dye, medicine, forgagers, soil building. He likes the book by Fukuoka, One Straw Revolution aka Do Nothing Farming. Mound Culture… Read More »

The Cost of Knowledge

My Flickr stream is getting a lot of hits these days. As an online petition grows by the thousands per day, I’m getting a few hundred visits DAILY to my recent visualization of Timothy Gower’s blog post and The Chronicle of Higher Ed article, Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics. cc licensed ( BY… Read More »