Posted on 09/05/2009 7:05:48 PM PDT by nmh
Can a lifestyle double as college credit, even a certificate?
The University of Iowa is offering a certificate in sustainability this fall, and one person has signed up so far.
But recent UI graduate Eric Holthaus has dedicated his job, apartment, and habits to being environmentally friendly.
“The idea is being aware and learning a formalized way to show a lifestyle,” said Holthaus.
He is an intern in the UI Office of Sustainability, created last December as an effort to bring green to a solidly black-and-gold campus.
On July 10, Holthaus manned a table at the information fair at freshman Orientation.
Approximately 40 students signed up, expressing interest in the new certificate. Only one person enrolled, but Holthaus said the program is valuable to students in all majors.
He passed out fliers to educate incoming students about the certificate at the table. The fliers — double-sided on quarter-sized pieces of paper — show ways students can make their dorm rooms more green, student organizations that are environmentally friendly, and ways they can find used clothes or furniture.
(Excerpt) Read more at green.foxnews.com ...
Let’s strive to be a third world country!
Will trash picking be next?
Just iamgine, you could trash pick someone's old rags and make them into jeans! Or live by candle light instead of using electricity, Or raid garbage cans like animals do for dinner! Th epossibilities are endless.
I don't know how I missed this news nugget.
does not going in to debt qualify as “sustainable?” of course, that means everyone would have to drop the college courses, but they’d still get the credit, right?
Honorary PhD to the student with the cojones, to drill an oil well in their back yard.
Wow!
Let’s strive to be a third world country!
Will trash picking be next?
Just imagine, you could trash pick someone's old rags and make them into jeans!
Or live by candle light instead of using electricity.
Or raid garbage cans like animals do for dinner!
The possibilities are endless.
You are only limited by your imagination and motivation!
I don't know how I missed this news nugget.
But that would spoil it for Obama.
He likes to have foreign countries drill for oil here and resell it back to U.S. at higher prices. He just wants to “spread the wealth around”.
What do you bet he buys bottled water. Having a truck burn hundreds of gallons of diesel to haul it to him.
he might feel guilty about the plastic and using the scarce resource of water ... but he's working on a solution to that ... I'm sure ... LOL!!!
“What do you bet he buys bottled water.”
Bottled Water.
There’s a fraud that makes Madoff look like a piker. The United States municipal water supply is the SAFEST and PUREST drinking water on Earth. Except for emergency use, there’s little if any reason to buy the bottled stuff. Don’t be afraid of tap water!
“Sustainable” has never really been rigorously modeled. These morons add what looks good to the denominator and ignore what doesn’t help from the numerator. Until they are willing to weigh all costs and all benefits I don’t want to talk to them.
What is the carbon footprint of producing a Prius battery?
What is the hazmat disposal cost of replacing a Prius battery?
I imagine he’d bring a certain presence to all of his other classes, one that would have to be eliminated with a room freshener...
“Plastic is so everywhere,” Holthaus said, “It can be taxing on your mental sanity.”
Hoo boy, we got ourselves a nutjob here.
The certificate in sustainability is a crock. Get a load of the courses:
http://www.registrar.uiowa.edu/registrar/catalog/universitycollege/sustainability/
Reading the article in full, I see he has developed such ingenius solutions as installing CFLs, opening the window to get a breeze, and buying food in bulk. Quick—where’s MENSA when you need them? This guy is truly a genius!
The real news in this story is that in ultra-lib, Marx-loving Iowa City, they only got one moron to sign up for this “certificate.”
I know, but all of the burlaper’s walk around with their bottled water!!
As long as you’re not suggesting that waste is good, then I’m on board with you. People should be free to consume - as long as they pay the freight costs. As for me, I scrounge like a madman, live as cheaply as I can and am not afraid of lifting a dumpster lid to peek inside. My personal goal is to minimize dependence on the larger social order as close to zero as possible. I don’t accept green philosophy in the least but by the same token, people who thoughtlessly consume are equally deranged.
This one sounds interesting: “Plants and Human Affairs”
I’ve never once had any inkling of a desire to have an affair with a plant.
You know what I think we should have? SUSTAINABLE DIVERSITY.
That means we sound like we like it BUT WE DON’T.
Hey, ‘really smart guys’ why don’t you just tap into all those multi-million and billion dollar endowments and simply lower the costs of tuition from the get-go instead of offering all these stupid communist solutions to getting credits for graduation. Oh yeah, it doesn’t fit the plan…Sorry…
Upon enrollment, you’ll be given one roll of TP and instructed to make it last the entire term. And it’ll be the delightful Chinese wax-paper TP with zero absorption.
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