Goodness, I have a blog, don’t I? Where were we? Oh, right, I got my PhD and fell off the face of the world for two weeks. (Actually, because of my PhD and the lead up to it, I’d fallen off the face of the world for the two months prior, but we’ll just keep [...]
In class a few weeks ago, my students and I were talking about sustainability and whose responsibility it is to make life more sustainable. Is it up to the individual? To communities? To society at large? To the government? And many of my students argued that it was up to the government to make life [...]
One of the great things about teaching this new humanities class is that I get to talk with my students about things other than American History that interest me. Their reading for yesterday was from Cradle to Cradle and I took the opportunity to engage them in discussion about things and why we’re so driven [...]