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.
What do you bet he buys bottled water. Having a truck burn hundreds of gallons of diesel to haul it to him.
“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.”
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.
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.
I can still recall when people graduating with college degrees had learned usable skills.
I recently met a very nice but misdirected black guy who has a degree in something like “Professional sports recruiting” (not exactly the wording but close). He has been out of school several years, bouncing from one meaningless part time job to another while he spends his evenings eMailing resumes to sports teams, colleges, prep schools.
I told him he should join the Marines and learn a usable skill before he gets too old.
I’ll bet some of the old timers here remember when a PhD thesis could be submitted and approved to show the merits of burning hippies.
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.