I've been thinking. I know, bad idea ( Read more... )

The Great Lakes for sale...not a new concept, exactly, but things are heating up back there again. Water is not "the oil of the 21st century," it's going to be way more than that. When I lived on the Lakes, back in the land of green, farms outside all of our back doors, water falling from the sky in abundance, back in the day I lacked the ( Read more... )

Here I am ( Read more... )

Sustainability education gets talked about all over the place. It is being talked about at our community college, among other places, including like local businesses, etc. It's the buzzword on everyone's lips. But, honestly, it sure doesn't get the love. Decide you're going to go that direction and 90% of your associates will think you're nuts ( Read more... )

Just in case.

Give me a list of all the advantages of renting. I sure need to hear those. Time's drawing nigh and things are looking worse.

What do you all know about rent-to-own deals?

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http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=72321_0_24_0_C




http://www.calearth.org/burial.html

http://www.calearth.org/whatnew.htm

And to top off the day, in my morning class I found out one of my wonderful students, an anthro major, a budding primatologist who is incredibly self-motivated, just one of those students...is being deployed before ( Read more... )

I received this link from another adjunct, just to lighten life up. I think you'll see why this particular trailer near the end of it. *big grin*

And yeahyeah, I know Indy's a treasure-hunter. But oh he's Indy. Not too much the worse for wear either, in fact. Maybe you younger sprouts won't agree. Maybe he'll look like your grampa...but he's still

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One more epoch for my students to be tortured with remember...

And for those of you who love DIRT like I love dirt...what we've done to it.

None of this is really news, none of it surprising. Some people will write books, some will give presentations, some chosen academics will maybe make some money off of the misfortunes of dirt. Maybe a handful ( Read more... )