Peak Oil in Higher Education, Part II

I had another thought while attending the Digital University Conference at CUNY on Wednesday and that was a serious question about who the experts will be under the new system of digital and open scholarship. Currently, Digital Scholarship is not valued or accepted on par with traditional methods of academic valuation. By that I mean: [...]

Peak Oil in higher education

I believe it was Chris Anderson’s Free that made the claim that much Science Fiction writing could be summarized as such: Take one thing that is currently scarce and make it abundant and see what happens to the people and institutions that rely and maintain that thing. This is the hope of much of the innovation in [...]

The Food Revolution is going to be televised?

I’m not a huge student of reality TV; however, you can understand how a student writing his thesis on Community Supported Agriculture as a Tool for Food Justice would be interested in Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. Now I’ve already briefly talked about why I think the show has failed to address the underlying issues in [...]