An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.
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By G. Rendell
July 10, 2009 11:45 am
A few weeks back the family dishwasher went on the fritz. First, it started making horrible shrieking sounds. Then, whatever it was complaining about apparently gave it a stroke, because the brain ...
By G. Rendell
July 8, 2009 9:06 pm
BSR, the global consortium of over 250 businesses for social responsibility, just issued its second global report. Sustainability is not only a theme, it's pretty much the theme -- the inside front ...
By G. Rendell
July 7, 2009 12:10 pm
First steps towards carbon neutrality on virtually any campus fall in the realm of building operations. And, while it's been hard to communicate convincingly, one of the results of improving the way ...
By G. Rendell
July 2, 2009 2:53 pm
This just came across my desktop. Thought it was worth sharing.
By G. Rendell
July 2, 2009 12:39 pm
I woke up this morning to hear the end of a seemingly pleasant tete-a-tete between Mark Zandi (of Moody's Economy) and Robert Reich (currently at Berkeley). The statement that stuck in my mind came ...
By G. Rendell
July 1, 2009 2:31 pm
It's just dawned on me that we shouldn't be talking about "accountability" in the educational system. The current connotation of "accountability" is that somewhere there's a ...
By G. Rendell
June 29, 2009 3:27 pm
"Accountability" is one of those lightning-rod words in the educational community. Far too often, it means teaching only those things (easily memorized) that can readily be tested. After ...
By G. Rendell
June 28, 2009 3:43 pm
The 2008 AASHE Digest came out last week. It's a compendium of short blurbs describing sustainability-related activities and achievements at AASHE members colleges and universities. As I mentioned ...
By G. Rendell
June 25, 2009 8:40 pm
OK, I can admit when I'm wrong. I shouldn't have used the term "social class" to refer to various strata of folks on campus. While sociologists may disagree about how many social classes ...
By G. Rendell
June 24, 2009 9:19 am
... history. Don't know much biology. Don't know much about science books. Don't know much about the French I took.
Friend WTF suggests I leave sociology to the sociologists. Would only that I ...