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.
June 13, 2010 - 8:57pm
As I try to get my mind around the concept of place-based pedagogy (or even place-aware pedagogy), a range of thoughts and associations crosses my radar screen.
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June 11, 2010 - 3:08pm
A conversation, yesterday, led me to one realization about how Greenback might modify its undergraduate co-curriculum to better prepare students for participation in a successful and sustainable social economy. We need to make sure their college experience is firmly grounded right here in Backboro.
June 8, 2010 - 9:25pm
I was reading through the latest edition of Greenpeace's Energy [R]evolution scenario. It's the third such effort, and lays out a more aggressive (but still practicable) plan, reducing global GHG emissions by more than 80% by 2050. I say "still practicable", because the scenario depicted includes creation of millions of good new jobs and fuel savings which pretty much pay for any increases in capital costs.
June 7, 2010 - 10:16pm
Whilst escaping from Chez Rendell this morning, I espied what I thought was the end of a TV commercial put out by the wireless phone industry through its trade group CTIA. And then, as I drove to campus, it entered my mind that the Gulf oil spill calamity, for all its calamitousness, has created a window of advertising opportunity. A chance to influence the way people think about the environment, and the country, and which virtues are important.
June 2, 2010 - 9:15pm
The recent Memorial Day holiday was more than welcome. In truth, that's the case most years. Given that the last previous administrative holiday was in mid-January (faculty get Good Friday off -- staff don't), it had been a while between long weekends. Also given that the period right after Commencement is the time a whole lot of facilities projects kick off at Greenback, planning and preparation activities get pretty intense from mid-April through mid-May.
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