Academia is overflowing with kooks like this.

Via ABC News:

It’s the ultimate in going green. An environmental science professor is making a 33-square-foot dumpster his new home for the next year.

His name is Dr. Jeff Wilson, but since embarking on this journey, he’s now going by Professor Dumpster.

He teaches at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard.

The goal is to embrace energy efficiency, and to prove that it is possible to live on a smaller scale — a much smaller scale.

This whole project revolves around using one percent of what an average American uses: one percent of the water, energy and waste.

“We really needed some sort of excitement around science, sustainability and technology,” says Wilson.

He says the idea came to him over two years ago. Since then he’s been recruiting a world-class team of professors, scientists and environmentalists to make his idea a reality.

“My hypothesis is that my life will be better,” Wilson says. “I’ll be fulfilling a richer life by living a smaller life.”

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The goal is to embrace energy efficiency, and to prove that it is possible to live on a smaller scale — a much smaller scale.

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Sorry Jack Ass. We already ran this experiment....



It overwhelmingly didn't make peoples live "better".

Just read the original article. It is a scam. This dude is have some hippie group at this school volunteering to live in it to give him "the night off". If this is so great, why would he want to go to sleep in his own bourgeois bed? I also find this rich....

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He’ll be taking his dumpster home to local elementary schools and sharing his project with the students.

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So how are they going to get this dumpster to these schools? Push it or use a gas guzzling truck move it around? We all know the answer to this.


Dr. Jeff Wilson checks out his new 33 square foot dumpster home. (Credit: @profdumpster/Instagram)

Two words explain it all: "Harvard" and "Austin".

Huston Tillotson is a historically black university with a dignified past. Too bad this guy is making news for them.

And, it's been in the 20's for two days now. Hope he has a wood stove in there.