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An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.

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Cheap, cheap

By G. Rendell
September 11, 2009 4:26 pm

There are, I'm sure we can all agree, at least enough stories in the general media about how the economy's doing. It's an easy story for today's journalists to put together (statistics are published ...

Planning not to change

By G. Rendell
September 10, 2009 9:02 pm

I've been keeping a low profile for the past couple of weeks, because I've been involved with people from across campus getting Greenback's Climate Action Plan ready to submit. The Climate Action ...

Don't be idle

By G. Rendell
September 4, 2009 3:45 pm

My local paper recently printed a column by Click and Clack which included a query about whether buying a used police cruiser was a good idea. The brothers responded in the negative, citing the high ...

The rubber meets the road, or the face meets the snow

By G. Rendell
September 2, 2009 3:29 pm

September 15 is fast approaching. On that date, over 200 charter signatories of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment are due to release their respective Climate Action ...

Structures and standards

By G. Rendell
August 31, 2009 10:22 am

Of late, when I speak of a "structural problem", it's not about an older outbuilding on my farm that's in danger of falling down. Rather, it relates to the way Greenback does its ...

You learn what you eat

By G. Rendell
August 26, 2009 9:30 pm

Interesting interview today on NPR's "Tell Me More". Two K-12 school food service directors talking about recent changes in menu and preparation, with an emphasis on fresh, local, more ...

Truckin'

By G. Rendell
August 25, 2009 6:51 pm

Any system that's only 11% efficient can be improved. According to an article in a recent issue of New Scientist, only 11% of the energy used by the current generation of tractor-trailer trucks ...

Other blogs, other posts

By G.. Rendell
August 20, 2009 8:33 pm

First, let me just state that Sunday's post about Greenback's library was in no way a setup for Tuesday's debut of the Keywords from a Librarian blog. Pure coincidence. Really. Trust me on this ...

Sustainability and sexism

By G. Rendell
August 17, 2009 8:34 pm

Sometimes, the world is just trying to tell me something. Occasionally, I get the message. First, I read yesterday's excellent "Momma PhD" post by Susan O'Doherty, which spoke to her ...

A thought experiment

By G. Rendell
August 16, 2009 8:32 pm

One of the people on campus I talk to fairly regularly works at Greenback's main library. I'm not sure whether there's a specific reason for it or not, but the library staff seems to be more ...

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