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In praise of plastic
Normally, I hate plastic. I hate it for how it's made. I hate it for how it feels. I hate...
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Time and spaces
One of the patterns I noticed while investigating sustainability-related academic programs at various institutions was that many of them seem...
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Major inflexibility
On the continuing theme of "what we're not able to imagine, we're very unlikely to do" -- One of the...
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Imagination and wisdom and waste
In my previous post, I noted that a lot of us can imagine the end of the world more readily...
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Non-academic employment
As folks were emailing me and I was noticing the pattern of conflation (what we do with where we do...
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Academic employment - wrapping up
One final thought on why folks work for colleges and universities. It's probably not particularly insightful, given the distinctive role...
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Academic employment - security (3)
Some folks just never want to leave campus. That is, they come as students, they get work/study or internships, they...
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Academic employment - security (2)
A couple of folks wrote in response to my statement that tuition benefits for my children were a factor in...