Monday, February 23, 2009

Columbia U, the beautiful

It's a great feeling when stepping foot onto Columbia's campus. When there; I'm miles away from work, home, friends and the center of the universe. Altogether, it looks great. I truly appreciate the hard work of the landscape engineers around campus. Part of the holiday hangover might include ditching a Christmas tree out on the sidewalk or consolidating credit cards. In the picture above, the engineers are cutting down lights that were tightly wound around tree branches. One guy would cut the lights' wires, another guy would rake the wire and bulb scraps into piles, and then another guy would throw the piles into the dump truck. A sight to sore you eyes; however, when the lights are lit, they are quite a mesmerizing sight to see. LED light bulbs would be great way to save energy if they were not intended to be trashed.
The holidays bring merriment and joy and Verdantic is not about to suggest otherwise. Verdantic will ignore this along with all of the other ills committed by Columbia, such as unfriendly community outreaches in Manhattanville. Spring tuition is due in a couple of weeks so when searching for value in Columbia, we can look beyond the oval office for a Columbia product at work. Columbia also hosts a global classroom that brings together more than a dozen campuses around the world for weekly discussions on food production, energy systems and global ethics that underscore the communality of our world's challenges.
Go Lions!

1 comment:

  1. Also don't forget that Columbia has to deal with all the union rules and regs, which can often lead to 3 workers doing the work of 1, which can be more wasteful.

    ReplyDelete