Solar powered picnic tables? Check.
Solar powered trash cans? Check.
Dedicated green blog? Check.
Recycling cans everywhere? Check.
Water bottle filling stations? Check.
Stopping our snowblowers from leaking gas/oil all over the sidewalks and into our waterways? Ummmm …
It’s all about liability.
The liability of an undergrad from Florida with litigious parents who didn’t know what she was signing up for slipping and falling on the ice > the slim chance of bad snowblower press.
The liability of a potential student riot because of inadequate institutional fealty to the false idols of environmental folly > than the slim cost of the upkeep for nymphaea (alias water bottle refill stations) and sibyls (alias “green blog”).
Hey, I think I see an image of Rachel Carlson’s face in there!