One of our senior physics majors has made a video promoting sustainability to students, and posted it on YouTube. I need to figure out the best way to link it from the department web page, but it occurs to me that I have this big Internet platform I can use to plug it:
It's a good piece of work. Amazing what kids these days can do.
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Tell your student that it wasn't that hard to read all those suggestions and great job. One question, do the dorms have big communal bathrooms? Because that would make showering with a buddy a bit uncomfortable for everyone else.
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I'm curious about this flooded island. Does he refer to Lohachara Island? Google and Wikipedia suggest some controversy over that issue, which I'll leave at that. But isn't that Indonesian Tsunami footage he used there?
Yep, it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy0d9AzB_Kw
Strikes me as dishonest and disrespectful to the people who lost their lives in that _natural_ disaster. I'm all for sustainability, but let's do it without undue hype.