Evan posted about the need for Southern universities to sieze the day, getting ahead of the green research curve. Included was a link to Clemson’s University Housing Steps Toward Sustainability Strategies for a Green Campus (naming efficiency was apparently not a priority).
The list is lengthy, including common sense things like, “[r]educe distribution of phone books,” and “[m]inimize press runs of campus newspapers and other publications, consistent with actual need.”
Of course, sustainability strategies aside, why the hell is money being wasted on extra phone books and newspapers? Why on earth do you make sure everyone’s connected to the internet, then give them hulking books which provide the same information and are more likely to become out-of-date?
But hidden among the details is this gem of tree-huggery:
Go organic and celebrate dandelions!
(Perhaps this should be called weed-huggery, but that also bears other connotations which will confuse the issue).
But to quote Bear and Evan, “wow.”
I’m having a dandelion celebration next week at my house. BYOB.