Archive for June, 2008
Observations from and about the Sustainable Operations Summit
Campus sustainability professionals are barraged by marketing. Each day, I receive several calls or mailings from sales representatives interested in doing business with Rice University, offering everything from energy-efficient lighting fixtures to carbon offsets to the latest in air filters. When a profile of Rice’s campus sustainability efforts was published in our alumni magazine [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“The Typical Day” Ends Tragically
I’m regularly asked by people curious about the campus sustainability profession what it is that I do on a “typical day.” Truthfully and thankfully, there are no typical days. I’ve always been attracted to jobs with a lot of variety, and this is certainly one of them.
If I can make any broad generalizations, perhaps [...]
Field Notes from a Common Reading: Reflections on a Themed Academic Year
In the early summer of 2007, a golden opportunity fell into my lap. Unbeknownst to me, Rice University’s Dean of Undergraduates Office was in the midst of launching a common reading program, whereby all entering students in the first year class would receive a common book during the summer as a means of creating a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Welcome to Greening the Campus: Inside the World of the Campus Sustainability Professional
As I begin typing this post, our world population sits ever so temporarily at an estimated 6,673,085,292. Here in the United States, at the exact same moment, our population is 304,293,472, and thanks to a webcam trained on the National Debt Clock near Times Square in New York City, I know that this U.S. [...]
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