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SCUPing out Montreal
As this goes to press, I'm engaged in ecologically responsible travel to SCUP-43, in Montreal. I'm hoping to get some...
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Local medium
Yesterday evening, I was listening to NPR while I was driving, and they did a bit about a local bartering...
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The joys of decentralization
I've commented before on the challenges Greenback is facing, accounting for the considerable greenhouse gas emissions resulting from things like...
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...
Now that the summer capital projects are all underway and most Greenback students are off campus, I have time to...
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Beyond modernity
I'm about two-thirds of the way through Beyond the Modern University, by Marcus Peter Ford. It's a slim volume, but...
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One possible future
Vance Fried's proposal for a "$7,376 Ivy" isn't intended to be about sustainability, unless we're talking about the sustainability of...
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Planning to plan to plan
Greenback U. is, in the terminology of those who think and write analytically about such things, a "multiversity." It's a...
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Assault on battery
A recent post on Gristmill spoke to Volkswagen's increasing investment in hybrid cars, and the industry trend towards less internal...