Posted on 11/11/2017 7:03:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members have adopted a resolution encouraging campus administrators to implement a plan to become carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate unanimously passed the resolution on Nov. 6, said sponsor, Kurt Paulsen, an associate professor in urban planning.
The resolution encourages funding, creation and implementation of a campus-wide climate action plan with specific and measurable targets.
Sustainability improvements on campus often require financial investments, Blank stressed. And investments in the campus’ state-owned buildings often requires state approval and funding, she said.
Blank in closing quoted former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, the namesake of The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies on our campus: “The ultimate test of a man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”
Those words continue to inspire today, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at host.madison.com ...
Sand if you are extreme, else the mussulman way: a rusty coffee can, some small pebbles to fill the bottom, add water, dip and swipe until desired effect achieved ...
That is typical academe-speech.
Live and suffer in the now and forget the future . Any advancement that comes along forget it ,they must stay in 2017
Are these University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members qualified for their jobs? Could they each pass a simple test of what is the scientific method, and what is it NOT?
I suspect that they would all FAIL.
Close the school and start over is one solution, maybe with one quarter of the staff...
Exactly. No electricity and no heat for a couple of weeks. They can bask in the glow of global warming.
Last month my wife and I visited Wisconsin for the first time since 2013. I grew up in Madison but moved to TEXAS in 1974 because of what I could see coming.
I have to say that the Liberals who control Madison have done a fantastic job of completely ruining what was once the most beautiful city in the Midwest. To say that I was sickened by what those reprobates and cretins have done to my hometown would be putting it politely and mildly.
It’s sad and disgusting.
I was born & raised in Wisconsin. I came within a week of registering for classes there in 1957, but due to a week long argument with my mother over what major I wanted to study, I never did attend here. Went to work at Kroger Divisional offices instead.
I can remember how cold it can get in Wisconsin.
I remember one cold spell where the temperature was almost 70 BELOW Zero-—and this was LONG before the days of putting together the words: WIND CHILL FACTOR, etc. There were 6 vehicles parked in our driveway-—all with a headbolt heater running, and ONLY MY 1933 Chevy pickup truck with a 1952 straight six engine would start. I push started all the other 5 vehicles. I can remember tires so cold that they had FLAT spots until you got some distance down the road.
There is NO WAY the buildings in Wisconsin can be heated with ‘other’ methods -— but maybe when some of these fools literally FREEZE to death, they will learn something. AND- it is damned hard to dig a grave in those temps, also.
Urban planning is always a euphemism for communist central planning.
Money is not value, it represents data about value. One of the things this data accurately indicates is energy use. If A costs more than B then A is almost always using more energy somewhere along its supply chain, and therefore is almost always polluting more. If solar or wind electricity costs 4 times more than natural gas electricity, it's pretty simple to track down where it is stressing Earth's limited resources more. Just follow the money, i.e. energy consumption data.
It is possible to be carbon neutral but it mainly involves fertilizing the open oceans to grow more saltwater algae. Most of the oxygen in the air came from this ancient plant eating CO2.
I entirely second this opinion, and as it is employee driven, take a portion of salary from all employees (balanced for their income) to pay for it.
And they should be carbon neutral by 2020, why let 30 years of damage occur; retroactively assign fees to pay for any extra costs.
What I found rich in Chancellor Blank's comment was her quote from Gaylord Nelson: "The ultimate test of a man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”
Here Blank is, presiding over one of the institutions that is benefiting most from federally guaranteed student loans. Which are simply a way of burdening the future generations with debts of present students who will increasingly default and drop the burden on taxpayers. She doesn't seem very sensitive to that.
Close the School, Fire Everyone, Raze all the Buildings, COMMIT SUICIDE, then and only then will you be “carbon “neutral”
Recuse from the carbon cycle. LOL
“The UW-Madison Faculty Senate unanimously passed the resolution...”
Dear faculty:
Eat me.
Sincerely,
America
Great input. Thank you.
There are no more ignorant, useless and harmful people than those self-righteous academics who only live in their own heads and arrogantly try to tell others what to do and how to live.
“A bucket of sand in each stall.”
LOL! Meow! :)
Madison, Wisconsin.
35 square miles surrounded by reality.
It truly is.
But the trains run on time, Comrade! So, there’s that. ;)
We moved to the area when I was 10 in 1970; we had escaped Milwaukeestan. Dad had worked hard to move us up The Food Chain.
The first week we were there, Sterling Hall was bombed by the loser Hippies.
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM28381
Dad took me, Mom and baby sister down there so we could see the destruction up close and personal. It was my first exposure to how VIOLENT Leftists are and I carry it with me to this day.
However, after only serving 7 of a TWENTY-THREE year term in prison for his crime, ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ welcomed home KILLER Karlton Armstrong. He set up a restaurant and it was as if nothing ever happened.
Another lesson learned about Madistan, for sure!
“After the bombing, he went into hiding until he was caught on February 16, 1972 in Toronto.[10] He was sentenced to 23 years in prison, but served only seven years.[9] After this release, Armstrong returned to Madison, where he operated a juice cart called Loose Juice on the library mall. In the early 2000s he also owned a deli called Radical Rye on State Street near the UW–Madison campus until it was displaced by the development of the Overture Center.[11][12]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hall_bombing
See my tag line.
Have them all hold their breath until they are blue.
Then they are carbon neutral.
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