Topic: Environmental sustainability
Congress 2016 Day #1: Climate crisis, student unions, and even more controversy
The team at Academic Matters is always thrilled to attend the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, this year in Calgary, […]
READ MOREHarper’s attack on science: No science, no evidence, no truth, no democracy
Science—and the culture of evidence and inquiry it supports—has a long relationship with democracy. Widely available facts have long served as a […]
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Bottled up or tapped out: Where have all the water fountains gone?
Water fountains are disappearing on university campuses. Richard Girard and Erika Shaker trace how this is yet another example of the way commercialization and privatization realigns and redefines priorities in our universities.
READ MOREFrom Grey to Green: Environmental Sustainability at the University of Guelph
My campus is not green. It has a greenish hue The University of Guelph, like many campuses I’ve experienced, gives an impression […]
READ MOREUniversities in a Climate of Change
Although we are not experiencing intense hurricanes or brush fires, as a northern country, Canada is more sensitive to climate change than […]
READ MOREThe Environmental Crisis: The Devil is in the Generalities
I’ve started encouraging my students not to use the word “environment.” Taken literally, it includes everything between your skin and outer space, […]
READ MOREScience, Cognition and Public Policy
We are not a science-based society The western world, at least, thinks of itself as a post-Enlightenment world, a world freed from […]
READ MOREEnvironmentalism and the Responsibility of Academia
Scientists, especially those in academia, have played an enormous role in the modern environmental movement. From Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich and Margaret […]
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The Boomers’ New Frontier
Jeff Goldsmith, The Long Baby Boom (The John Hopkins University Press 2008)
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