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Let me start by saying that I'm tremendously conflicted on this subject. Probably the first lessons I taught my children when they were old enough to watch TV were that (1) commercials lie, and (2) ...

The arguments that sustainability advocates have been making, which aren't working well enough, have been largely fact-based. (That's what often happens when you start out with empirical data.) But ...

And now, for something completely different . . . Ironically, this just in on the Green Schools listserv (co-curricular life competency development meets the good kind of job training/vocational ...

A commenter on a previous post accused me (on what evidence, I can't discern) of wanting to turn all of higher education into "job training and vocational skills workshops." Would only ...

It's getting cold at night around Backboro. The stock tanks have a quarter inch of hard ice on them in the morning. The feed buckets get kicked farther into the pastures because their rolling ...

I wasn't listening to music on the way to Greenback this morning, but I should have been. I should have been listening to Tanglefoot's tale of "When Dad and Uncle Archie Lost the Farm" ...

During the academic year at Greenback, campus buildings alternate between "occupied" and "unoccupied" status. Our energy management system is programmed with the schedule of when ...

I'm currently reading Dorothy Ross's book The Origins of American Social Science. Truth be told, I've just started reading it, so I'm not yet sure whether it's any good as a whole, but one sentence ...

If you believe Ban Ki Moon, the UN climate summit next month in Copenhagen will be a failure by any rational standard. Oh, he and other politicians will find a way to put a positive spin on things ...

Well, maybe not free beer where you are right now, but I do promise free beer to anyone who shows up at Greenback and asks to collect. More to the point, "free beer!" is a phrase that's ...