Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Blaine House solar RFP and CMP buy-out

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/01/20/solar-panel-plan-for-blaine-house-sends-a-message/


Thursday, January 17, 2019

WAPO on climate, including Antarctic ice

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/more-studies-show-terrible-news-for-the-climate-we-should-be-alarmed/2019/01/16/93da73d6-183f-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html?utm_term=.40bb5af570cf

New semester, new topics, old, old issues

We'll be discussing human freedom in EII this morning, and what it means to be free. This, given the stated aim of liberal education is "... education worthy of a free person."

Our immediate example and foil for thought experiment is the plight of a young Saudi woman, now resident in Canada:

Here's the Canvas announcement:

You should read ahead in Pollan as soon as you have a copy, starting at the beginning. We'll read the whole book.
In the meantime, here's the reading I suggested today. We'll discuss this Thursday.

Here's a video on the same topic (there'll be an ad first):