Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Ok, I'll pose a question.

Do you feel that our campus does enough environmentally?

I don't. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few areas Dordt could improve:
- more recycling bins are needed.
- the recycling dumpsters by the apartments are seldomly emptied, leaving the dumpsters to be overflowing 75% of the time, discouraging people from placing stuff in the recycling dumpsters
- our campus, even though it used to, does not compost anything
- there are not enough bike racks, causing issues with the effectiveness of people being able to conveniently ride and park bicycles (just wait a couple weeks, you'll see...)
- Dordt needs to create more outdoor areas for people to sit down. More benches and picnic tables would create good space for people to hang out outside and become more aquainted with the outdoors.
- In the area between the Beej and the Rec Center, for example, more trees should be planted. It's an open area without any trees, but isn't a comfortable spot for people to play sports or lay out a blanket to do homework.
- Too many trees have recently been cut down to make room for parking lots/new construction

Don't get me wrong, our campus is improving. But there's more work to be done.

What do you think?

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