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Jones has a way with a slogan and a talent for cutting to the core of an argument that some environmentalists (Al Gore, for instance) don't always possess. But while Jones has become the face of the new green-collar economy, he's hardly the only environmentalist pushing the idea. The concept is gaining steam because when it comes to climate change, simply protecting the environment is not enough. The only way the environmental movement can grow beyond a relatively small elite is if it meets broad, basic economic needs, not just green ones. "We need to go from...
...General Education program slowly renders the Core Curriculum obsolete, professors are approving a greater variety of departmental courses for Core credit...
...climate of deregulation that dominated the Bush-Greenspan years helped the spread of a new banking model. At its core was securitization: mortgage brokers originated mortgages that they sold on to others. Borrowers were told not to worry about paying the ever mounting debt, because house prices would keep rising and they could refinance, taking out some of the capital gains to buy a car or pay for a vacation. Of course, this violated the first law of economics - that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The assumption that house prices could continue...
Unlike a traditional Core class, Kuriyama’s assignments focus on communication and technology, rather than writing papers. For Xu’s final project, he chose to make an film about the history of tai chi. “If it’s not a way of hurting people and not a way of meditating, how do we define what’s tai chi?” Xu said. “How many ways do you see different manifestations of the tai chi symbol?” He said the process got him thinking about...
...really great example of a cross disciplinary class,” said Kenen. “It doesn’t fit neatly into one disciplinary framework and thus it’s the kind of thing that might not have worked well in the Core.” She said that the General Education program has been criticized for recycling Core classes, but that classes like Kuriyama’s are “hidden gems.” “We asked him, ‘Can you scale this course up, is it going to work...