Ashley Thorne joins Andy Nash in the latest episode of InsideAcademia.tv to discuss the issue of sustainability on campus. Thorne and Nash delve into sustainability’s three core parts: economic, environmental, and social justice.
But the cause of “sustainability,” like “diversity” before it, has flown a pleasing flag while advancing a conflicted agenda involving, as often as not, explicit engineering of thought and attitude formation. And these fall under a branch of activism alien to the notion of a pluralistic schooling.
As Earth Day 2011 recedes in our national consciousness, let Ashley Thorne, of the National Association of Scholars, take you on a journey through the history and motives of the sustainability movement.
Seems to me that opposite-gender marriage is sustainable, but same-gender marriage is not. Am I right? Of course I am right. Are the universities with me on this? No? Why not?
My alma mater -- Miami University -- was founded in 1809 and has a "Sustainability Committee." I would think that an institution that has been around for 200 years has more than demonstrated its "sustainability" and does not need to waste money on such nonsense.
Seems to me that opposite-gender marriage is sustainable, but same-gender marriage is not. Am I right? Of course I am right. Are the universities with me on this? No? Why not?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMy alma mater -- Miami University -- was founded in 1809 and has a "Sustainability Committee." I would think that an institution that has been around for 200 years has more than demonstrated its "sustainability" and does not need to waste money on such nonsense.
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