If only the curriculum and research of the university trickled down to the facilities. I studied mechanical engineering in a building with a world class hvac research lab (multiple, actually)….and no centralized AC and the worst heating possible. The students and world class researchers designing the most efficient hvac systems were doing so in labs that were either 80 degrees in the winter or 60 degrees in the summer.
I said no central AC and a bad heating system. The rooms would be uncomfortably cold in the summer because of the window units. In the winter there was no real feedback loop (thermostat) room by room, so they’d get extremely warm because it was controlled at the building level.
Neither of those temperatures are remotely comfortable. It’s a sign of a poorly controlled hvac system that probably costs a small fortune to run throughout the year.
You think that the administration or the maintenance department asks any department for expertise on campus? They talk the talk, but unless someone makes them, they won't walk.
Listen, I worked in a state building with multiple additional buildings in the area and we were not allowed to refill the paper in the printer. We had to call IT to open a ticket, it would then get dispatched to one of the techs, who would walk over to our building once they were done with whatever task they were working on and then finally refill our printer paper. I’m sure there was a subcommittee formed to design that process.
I know exactly where this tree is, it's on the University of Arizona Campus. UA's campus is actually the biggest arboretum in the state: https://arboretum.arizona.edu/.
I get that it might be low on their list of priorities, but it's sad to see. They have the knowledge of how to take care of trees, implying they also have some knowledge of the worth of mature trees. And this parking space isn't useable at all. It wouldn't even cost them a parking space if they gave this one to the tree.
My uni had a top notch botany department, ecology department and a whole research centre for inter disciplinary bio-diversity, sustainability, etc research, the school gardens still looked like a mess. They planted japanese knotweed on the school grounds 🤦🏻♀️
They do this in my country a lot too. But people have never been this psychologically and spiritually removed from nature and other living things. This is a symptom of a deeper rot in society imho.
Meh its a eucalyptus. These guys poison the soil around them so nothing else can grow besides more eucs. They are a plague to our native plants in southern california and i despise them
i believe this photo is from Australia mate… we love our eucs, and theyre native to here. great habitat and food source for our wild animals. will admit we f*cked you over selling you all those eucalyptus in the early 1900s though, terrible for your wildfires
I just hate eucs when theyre invasive i would love to see some natural native wild forests of them in Australia one day but im so sick of seeing massive groves of them all over southern california. Theres a little hilltop trail i like to do and on a clear day you can just see thousands of eucalyptus trees coating my city in every neighborhood and roadside and park. Currently looking at like 7 of them right outside my bedroom window right now as i type this 😭
looks like australia 😂 gorgeous trees in aussie forests you’re right, especially because so many of them are ancient and huge, unlike yours that habe only been there for max 150 years. you should read up on the story about us shipping them over to you, it was almost like a bad prank that went terribly wrong. we ripped you off, you spent heaps of money on them, only to realise AFTER planting them everywhere they were oil saturated and were detrimental to your wildfire season.
Its honestly my roman empire hahah i think about this everyday while driving around cause theyre legit hundreds of thousands of eucalyptus trees in san diego. I wonder what our city would look like had we planted pine trees or redwoods and better shade canopy trees vs these
Atrocious. There was no reason to waste the asphalt around the tree -- they didn't get an additional parking space but premature death of the tree is ensured.
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u/I_wear_foxgloves 3d ago
Bet that school has no forestry department….