Guide To "Green" Colleges

From the "I know they are the brainwashed generation and think it is sad department" is the latest in excessive environmental worry. This year for the first time Princeton University has published a "Guide to 286 Green Colleges", a 200-page guidebook that is available free online and is supposed to steer high school grads to the Al Gore college of their choice.

It offers brief profiles and facts about 286 colleges that it says excel in three major areas: 1) Providing students a healthy and sustainable quality of life. 2) Preparing students for green jobs and responsible green citizenship. 3) Using environmentally responsible school policies. The colleges profiled all received "Green Ratings" in the 80s or 90s, on a scale from 60-99, based on Princeton Review surveys of administrators at 697 colleges. How idiotic!

College should be a preparation for the future world of work, not a feel good indoctrination into buying into the alleged "environmentally preferable" products that every snake oil salesmen sells to the gullible "Save the Planet" types.

Hmmmmmmmmm I suggest those high school grads who want to attend one of the green universities should actually fully live the green lifestyle they worship. For starters, no greener should fly or drive an auto to his or her green school. It's a carbon offense to do that. Perhaps renting a horse or walking might be the best way to go. Or..maybe daddy will buy them one of those hybrid cars that are supposed to be vastly superior to regular fossil fuel cars, but are in themselves a pollutant.

Once on campus, no products, food included, should be eaten if produced by the use of resources deemed critical or which have a bad "carbon foot print". Good lucky fighting over the handful of the organic food grown (and often processed without green etiquette as a guide). Oh, and if the student becomes ill and needs critical medication he or she will have to do without it. The Green University would not want to allow any use of drugs that were tested in animals....it's too cruel to be politically correct.

The green student will never use paper to write note on the latest green hype his or her professor teaches. It's environmentally unsound. And the semester grades must be published on recycled paper since the university owns that expensive recycling contract that tax payers pay for. A "good sustain ability education" also means an allotment of only one roll of toilet paper per month per student. Remember the motto of every Green School- "We waste your time with incredibly expensive tuition on politically correct nonsense like 'carbon neutrality' and 'sustain ability' instead of using it for a quality education."

Sign me up for one of those schools too! Err..but make sure you don't let me use any of those polluting lead pencils when I do it...