OT - Uconn named most sustainable campus in the world,

[UCONNfan1]

Good stuff. The younger generation seems to be much more aware of social and environmental issues. It should help attract some great R&D as well as students who are very environmentally savvy. It certainly can't hurt.

 

[Palatine]

You are an a%%hole. Doing the right thing is politically correct? Is it PC to not kill too? Or not steal your neighbor's car?

And PS - carbon has a cost. You just don't pay for it - yet.

Oh no, a carbon trader. If you buy that scam, to will be hard to reason with you.

Excellent insulting, BTW, no real points, but who needs 'em when you call someone names.

 

[Nostical]

.......Don't forget getting those all so important federal research dollars that will get us into the AAU

Ding, Ding, Ding

Whether the greening of UConn was driven by political correctness, passionate belief in helping the environment, or a cold blooded cost/benefit analysis--- the reality is this type of publicity is helpful in enhancing UConn's image as a fast rising major research University.

 

[Waquoit]

Good point, Nos.

 

[CL82]

Ding, Ding, Ding

Whether the greening of UConn was driven by political correctness, passionate belief in helping the environment, or a cold blooded cost/benefit analysis--- the reality is this type of publicity is helpful in enhancing UConn's image as a fast rising major research University.

I don't know but I get the sense that green technology may be a dry well. (See what I did there?) It seems pretty well exploited and has established players and has yet to produce much of value. Solar, fail. Electric cars, fail and probably not all that green. I think biotech is a much richer field and better source of revenues. There is some overlap with bio fuels.

That said the place to experiment with green ideas is a college campus, where you've got a big enough community to test ideas and relatively controlled environment. I think it is great that Connecticut won this award BTW, I'm just not sure that green industry R&D is a good long term investment for us. That's just gut, I haven't looked into it, though.