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.
May 17, 2010 - 9:16pm
Several years before I came to work at Greenback, I had a job interview with the Marine Spill Response Corporation. The position in question had considerable authority; the salary would have represented quite a bump to my income. Still, as the interviews progressed I reached the conclusion that I didn't want the job. Whether my reticence came through or whether they felt me unqualified, I'll never know. What I do know is that they didn't make an offer, and I was relieved that they didn't.
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May 13, 2010 - 8:18pm
Next year is the 50th anniversary of the original (French language) publication of Frantz Fanon's classic, The Wretched of the Earth. It's one of the books that's on my "top 50 sustainability tomes" list, but that didn't make the list put out by Greenleaf Publishing. Of course, Fanon rarely appears on anyone's list of "sustainability writers", and almost certainly wouldn't have considered himself in such terms. However, approached with an open mind, he has quite a lot to say on the subject, and all of it is important.
May 11, 2010 - 5:55pm
I hear tell that Newsweek is for sale. Not just the latest issue, the whole operation. A modern media icon at a bargain basement price. Can Time be far behind?
May 10, 2010 - 2:40pm
On the way to campus this morning, I happened to catch "The Environment Report", from UMich. What struck me was a brief item about how US consumers attribute too much virtue to the "organic" label on commercial food products.
May 6, 2010 - 9:24pm
When I was a college freshman I had to take an English Literature course. It wasn't Lit 101/102 (the generally required two-semester sequence), it was a one-semester course for entering students who either were transfers from other schools or had scored well on the verbal portion of the SAT. The instructor was a visiting professor who'd gotten his PhD from Cambridge, and I remember that because he entered the first class meeting (a couple of minutes late, for effect) wearing full academic regalia.
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