The Real Revolution
Sometimes, the ecological revolution of the 21st century seems stalled. There hasn’t been significant environmental legislation for years. Republican resourcism and denials of what everybody else can...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Son and the Pigs
From time to time, I’m asked to talk about sustainability in religious settings, which I love to do, because it seems to me that sustainability is in many ways the first commandment, implicit in God’s...
View ArticleChange Begins in the Dorm Room!
Students buy a lot of shelves and desks and furniture at Ikea, and now they can get more for their money, because Ikea is introducing a product scorecard evaluating on 11 different stages of the...
View ArticleCampus Ecology and the Nature of College
I’m recently back from the AASHE conference in Pittsburgh, where I talked about the class that inspired The Nature of College, and conspired with me to write it. Students fact-checked it against their...
View ArticleEducation and Practicality
In an era of budget cuts, many state governments are increasing funding for college departments that prepare students for today’s corporate employers (especially the STEM disciplines), forgetting the...
View ArticleSustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop–St. Olaf College, June 13-14
With all the environmental problems facing Americans—including global weirding, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, resource depletion, soil erosion, etc.—it’s time for the college curriculum to...
View ArticleAir Conditioning
Intro: During this hot summer season, Americans are looking for ways to keep cool. Today, on the 110th anniversary of air conditioning, Dr. America, who is nothing but cool, cranks up the heat on air...
View ArticleThe Nature of “Scrubs”
In my Campus Ecology class, when we’re reading the chapter on “The Nature of Screens,” I ask students to watch their favorite programs for its environmental implications. Here’s an example—try it for...
View ArticleThe New Math
Some college students major in math, but all college students should be interested in the new math explained in Bill McKibben’s new essay in Rolling Stone. McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on...
View ArticleToying with Materialism
Recently, I’m reading Life at Home in the 21st Century, a thorough ethno-archaeological dig through 27 American homes in the Los Angeles area. More later, but one sentence caught my eye: “While...
View ArticleThe Real Revolution
Sometimes, the ecological revolution of the 21st century seems stalled. There hasn’t been significant environmental legislation for years. Republican resourcism and denials of what everybody else can...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Son and the Pigs
From time to time, I’m asked to talk about sustainability in religious settings, which I love to do, because it seems to me that sustainability is in many ways the first commandment, implicit in God’s...
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Change Begins in the Dorm Room!
Students buy a lot of shelves and desks and furniture at Ikea, and now they can get more for their money, because Ikea is introducing a product scorecard evaluating on 11 different stages of the...
View ArticleCampus Ecology and the Nature of College
I’m recently back from the AASHE conference in Pittsburgh, where I talked about the class that inspired The Nature of College, and conspired with me to write it. Students fact-checked it against their...
View ArticleEducation and Practicality
In an era of budget cuts, many state governments are increasing funding for college departments that prepare students for today’s corporate employers (especially the STEM disciplines), forgetting the...
View ArticleSustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop–St. Olaf College, June 13-14
With all the environmental problems facing Americans—including global weirding, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, resource depletion, soil erosion, etc.—it’s time for the college curriculum to...
View ArticleAir Conditioning
Intro: During this hot summer season, Americans are looking for ways to keep cool. Today, on the 110th anniversary of air conditioning, Dr. America, who is nothing but cool, cranks up the heat on air...
View ArticleThe Nature of “Scrubs”
In my Campus Ecology class, when we’re reading the chapter on “The Nature of Screens,” I ask students to watch their favorite programs for its environmental implications. Here’s an example—try it for...
View ArticleThe New Math
Some college students major in math, but all college students should be interested in the new math explained in Bill McKibben’s new essay in Rolling Stone. McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on...
View ArticleToying with Materialism
Recently, I’m reading Life at Home in the 21st Century, a thorough ethno-archaeological dig through 27 American homes in the Los Angeles area. More later, but one sentence caught my eye: “While...
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