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 9, 2010 - 7:45pm
In the course of my wanderings, I found a lock. Not a padlock -- a canal lock. At a place called the Narrows.
Now, I've seen locks on canals before. I've watched some modern ones operate, lifting great big freighters up what looked like a couple of stories. Impressive, to say the least.
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August 5, 2010 - 3:30pm
Yes, I own a car. I also own a truck. Neither one is a hybrid, and both were built in North America.
August 2, 2010 - 4:30pm
Whilst traveling through a housing market well-removed from Backboro, I was struck by the prices developers were getting for moderately sized semi-detached (read: half a duplex) houses on tiny lots. Mrs. R. even commented that they better need little or no maintenance, as there wasn't enough space between two adjacent (as opposed to adjoining) units to raise a decent ladder.
July 28, 2010 - 3:00pm
I was recently in the Canadian Museum of Civilization. (Does the USA even have a museum of civilization? And what does it signify that I need to look in a museum to find civilization?) One of their larger exhibits was on the subject of aboriginal peoples of North America, and one of the displays in the exhibit was of a memorial to a chief out of the Pacific Coast (I forget what nation), and to the many large potlatches he gave.
July 26, 2010 - 6:00pm
Not too long ago, I had my car repaired. It's got about 100K miles on it and, being a GM product, the fuel sending unit failed. That's the moderately complex doohickey that both pumps fuel from the tank and tells you how much fuel remains. The "how much fuel remains" part had gone entirely bonkers (so my gas gauge needle was swinging randomly left and right), and at that mileage it made sense to replace the whole assembly even though only one little part of it had failed.
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