Fascinating read about how Dominica is funding climate resilience by selling passports: $200,000 each, generating a staggering $140 million per year for the developing island nation! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This Caribbean nation is preparing for the ravages of climate change by selling citizenship

Dominica is using revenue from its citizenship-by-investment program to fund its ambitious plans to become more resilient against hurricanes in the Caribbean.

To add to the nerdiness: The only question - I ever thought was hard - was do I like Kirk - or do I like Picard???

Lastly, applications often didn’t tell me enough to have a reasoned opinion on a student’s likelihood of success. Few were the letters that told me anything beyond what was in their transcripts. Meeting with students gave me the chance to learn more about them - and then about me.

And more to the point, applications cost $75+ each. If a 30-min conversation helped a student - many of whom often struggled to have that as disposable income - either feel more confident in spending that on my program or instead saving it for a better opportunity, that was a win to me.

If my website indicated that I was not looking to add to my group, I would respectfully decline meeting requests - but was happy to connect them with someone else who had openings. I just felt that if a student spent their time in good faith trying to engage with me, it was worth reciprocating.

While I understand this take, I respectfully disagree. Maybe it’s different at the top-of-the-top R1s, but at my R1 - where we’d get 30-40 apps per year for 2-5 spots - I wanted to give students every opportunity to feel like they mattered. If that meant 30 minutes on Zoom with 10-15 of them, great!

Fascinating read about how Dominica is funding climate resilience by selling passports: $200,000 each, generating a staggering $140 million per year for the developing island nation! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This Caribbean nation is preparing for the ravages of climate change by selling citizenship

Dominica is using revenue from its citizenship-by-investment program to fund its ambitious plans to become more resilient against hurricanes in the Caribbean.

Went up the hill behind my office after work for some exercise and snagged these views.

It may sound like hyperbole to compare it to Katrina’s impact along the northern Gulf coast in 2005, but for those in more isolated locations, it’s probably closer to reality than we’d like to admit.

The most sobering aspect of the catastrophe in the southern Appalachians from #Helene is that for as bad as it is now, it’s probably going to get worse given the sheer extent to which entire communities have been cut off from the outside world. Food, water, gas will run low, if not out entirely.