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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...
Local medium
Yesterday evening, I was listening to NPR while I was driving, and they did a bit about a local bartering...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Assault on battery
A recent post on Gristmill spoke to Volkswagen's increasing investment in hybrid cars, and the industry trend towards less internal...