Getting to Green
An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.
An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.
September 15, 2010 - 9:15pm
One of the behaviors I try to account for when I'm doing a greenhouse gas inventory for Greenback U is commuting by faculty members. Faculty commute less often than staff, and typically shorter distances -- they're more likely to be able to afford decent housing near campus. Professors who live the closest to campus tend to walk to the office, but most faculty still drive. Then, there are the others. The ones who fly.
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September 14, 2010 - 8:15am
My grandfather has been dead for quite a few years, but he's still teaching me.
September 9, 2010 - 6:15pm
One of the most significant annual conferences each year (actually two -- one in the USA and one across the pond) is run by a little group known as TED. The name started out to mean "technology, entertainment, design", but the subject matter has expanded significantly in the last 25 years. The TED conference is probably the single outstanding forum for communicating bold and important ideas across industry, sector, discipline and international boundaries.
September 7, 2010 - 6:15pm
Often, when I'm talking to someone of a certain age -- not so much students as parents of students -- about shifting American society in a more sustainable dimension, I get the definite impression that they think I'm trying to force us all back into a stone-age lifestyle. I'm not, and I wouldn't, and I don't want it for me or my kids, but the case that such a shift is orders of magnitude more drastic than anything that would be necessary takes longer to make than casual conversation can sustain.
September 2, 2010 - 5:45pm
In my more cynical moments, I sometimes feel like Merlin in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. Merlin had the distinct (dis)advantage of living life backwards, so that he was sometimes a bit vague on what had already happened but remembered well what was yet to come. All this gave him a richly ironic sense of humor which I flatter myself (the "rich" part aside, of course) that I share.
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