Sorry to bang on this drum again, but I just found this ridiculous. The U of A's Centre for Teaching and Learning has sent out a memo advertising "Sustainability Curriculum and Teaching Workshops." These include a "big picture" workshop, one to tie sustainability teaching to the academic plan, and one on pedagogies associated with sustainability. I'm sorry, but organizing workshops about how sustainability fits into the curriculum or the academic plan is pathetically far removed from actually moving towards a sustainable campus.
More than anything else, it reminds me of a scene in the old "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, where the Golgafringans from the B-ark (the useless third of the population, consisting of haridressers, insurance salesmen, management consultants, telephone sanitizers, etc.) have crash-landed on the prehistoric planet Earth, and rather than dealing with their predicament, are filming a documentary about themselves.
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