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.
August 18, 2010 - 3:15pm
I was thinking, over my second cup of coffee, just how blunt, accusatory, vehement, vituperative, vicious is the verbiage used by many climate change deniers. If you go with the theory that apparent anger is usually an expression of inner fear, a lot of people must be really threatened by the idea that human activity has consequences.
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August 17, 2010 - 3:00pm
OK, this one is going to take a little explaining.
Once upon a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth (starting in 1962), there was an animated TV series called "Rocky & His Friends". Rocky was a flying squirrel (you could tell by the leather aviator helmet and goggles), and his #1 friend was Bullwinkle J. Moose. (Indeed, reruns of the series were later titled "Rocky & Bullwinkle" and later "The Bullwinkle Show".
August 16, 2010 - 3:00pm
OK, if superheroes aren't your idea of "comic", here's something that might be. A VW Beetle that's powered by the same stuff Frau R. keeps telling me I'm full of.
Not that I'm endorsing it as ecologically sustainable, even if it does repurpose a major waste stream. To many unknowns in the technology involved.
Just that it tickles my sense of karma. Or Karmann. Or some such.
August 15, 2010 - 9:18pm
I often have two or three books going simultaneously, one or two of them "serious" and one much less so.
The "less so" novel I just finished is "Soon I Will Be Invincible", by Austin Grossman. It's an original piece, but it draws heavily (and with obvious parodic intent) on material from Marvel and DC comic book universes. In fact, if you didn't grow up (and aren't growing up right now) with tales of Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Iron Man, and the X-Men, then reading the book would be a waste of your time. Grossman's considerable work and wit would be for naught.
August 12, 2010 - 4:45pm
On occasion, I get a flash of brilliance that's actually a good idea. More often, they're insights which either were already apparent to anyone who'd thought much about the topic or are so trivial as not to matter one iota. Sometimes both.
When an understanding creeps up on me more gently, however -- not a flash so much as a dawning in granny gear -- it's usually pretty good. Sometimes even directly useful.
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