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. Ongoing or long-term projects usually generate follow-up blog posts. A submission to a conference will (if accepted) later generate a blog post about that conference. An ongoing research project will generate a new blog post some three, six or twelve months later. But I mostly write about things as they happen ("snapshots") and some blog posts don't generate follow-up blog posts even when they "should". I have tried to make amends by sometimes summing things up by going back half a year or even a whole year to look for "loose ends" to follow up and tie together. I've done it half a dozen times, but not lately ( the last follow-up blog post  was written in January 2015). This spring (January - June) has seen the blog fill up with posts about various academic papers; the name of the game has been a constant and hectic production of academic texts reaching almost-hysterical levels of text production in May and June. This follow-up blog post will exc...

. These are the books I read last autumn (ten months ago). All four books, in one way or another, are about teaching sustainability to university students. I read them because I'm on a quest, trying to find suitable course literature. I would only consider the first book for that purpose though. Here's the previous blog post about books I have read. The asterisks represent the number of quotes from the each book (see further below). **** The tiny 2013 book " Tio skäl att strunta i miljön : Om varför det är så svårt att förändra vardagligt beteende " [ Ten reasons to not care about the environment: On why it is so difficult to change everyday behaviour ] (sub-pocket-book sized and only a little more than 100 pages long) could in fact be a good resource for teaching. It is written by two researchers/teachers at Linköping University, Per Gyberg and Carl-Johan Rundgren and it treats the gap between what we believe is right (and necessary) and our own actual behaviours....

. This is blog post #5 - the very last blog post in my "summer spillover series" ( here is #4 ). I'm on vacation but this blog post is again about something I "should" have written about when it happened (more than one and a half months ago) - long before I went on vacation. Just as with the previous blog post , this is about a proposed chapter that I submitted to the upcoming (2017) book " Digital Technology and Sustainability : Acknowledging Paradox, Facing Conflict, and Embracing Disruption " together with Daniel Berg . I recently found out that we have indeed been invited to develop this proposed chapter of ours into a full book chapter. The ( very preliminary) title of the text is currently " Limits to Moneycomputing " and I am writing it together with  Daniel Berg who is a ph.d. student of economic history at Stockholm University. Our extended abstract consists of a short abstract and a steam-of-consciouness "walkthrough" of...

. This is blog post #4 in my "summer spillover series" ( here is #3 ). I'm currently on vacation but this blog post is about something I "should" have written about when it happened (more than one and a half months ago) - long before I went on vacation. The  previous blog post   was about an upcoming (2017) book that I have submitted two chapter proposals to. This blog post concern one of these chapter proposals and it has the (preliminary) title " On the inherent contradictions of teaching sustainability at a technical university ". There are quite some topical similarities between this chapter proposal and  the previous summer spillover blog post  about a text that has been written for the magazine Interactions (a special issue focusing on "teaching sustainability"). Both of these texts are about teaching ICT & sustainability and both are written together with my colleague Elina Eriksson. We originally thought that we could write a text...

. On the Internet, the space for writing low-bandwidth (text) blog posts is infinite. I try my very best to impose artificial limitations on this blog though and my goal is and has always been to publish at least one and a maximum of two blog posts per week. This blog post is an example of something that for sure would have been rolled into the next blog post if it wasn't for the fact that it is summer and I can "waste" some bandwidth here. (For an interesting angle on "waste/wasting", on dysfunctional behaviours and on " conspicuous consumption ", see this Wikipedia entry on "sinking champagne".) This blog post is about an upcoming book that I will hopefully contribute to , " Digital Technology and Sustainability: Acknowledging Paradox, Facing Conflict, and Embracing Disruption ". The book is edited by  Mike Hazas  (Lancaster University, UK) and  Lisa Nathan  (University of British Columbia, Canada) and it will be published by Rou...

. This is blog post #3 in my "summer spillover series" ( here is #2 ). I'm currently on vacation but this blog post is about something I "should" have written about when it happened (two weeks ago) - before I went on vacation. My ex-UCI colleagues Bonnie Nardi, Bill Tomlinson and Don Patterson were in contact with the editors of the journal Interactions (Ron Wakkary and Erik Stolterman) some two and a half months ago and got a go-ahead for putting together a special issue focusing on "teaching sustainability". The special issue will consist of a brief introduction by Bill, Bonnie and Don ("The Troika") and three featured articles of about 2750 words each. The Troika will write one article, Me and Elina Eriksson have been invited to write another article and the final article will be written by Samuel Mann and Lesley Smith (from NZ). Me and Elina thought this was a great idea and we submitted a draft of our article a few week ago. The draft ...

. This is blog post #2 in my "summer spillover series" ( here is #1 ). I'm currently on vacation but this blog post is about something I "should" have written about when it happened (10 days ago) - before I went on vacation. This blog post is about the  second submission of mine to the Energy Research & Social Science special issue on " Narratives and storytelling in energy and climate change research " ( the previous blog post was about the first submission). The roots of the abstract below stretch back for more than two years but this is the first concrete outcome of the project "Consider Half" (with the exception of  the blog post I wrote last month ). I do however promise that plenty more is to come, with additional articles slated to be written in 2016 and 2017 (as outlined in the abstract below). As apart from the previous submission (proposal) to the special issue, this is a bid for writing a full paper (6000-10000 words) and w...