Do you think colleges should include "green fees" in the student fees?

Question

"green fees" go to environmental and renewable energy projects on campus.

If you think yes, how much would you pay for the fee? $ 5, 10, 15, 20+?

If no explain why there should be no "green fees"?

Thank you for your opinion!

the colleges will not pay for it themselves and government does not seem to care very much...

extra note i forgot to mention:

the student body is willing to pay $210 a semster to start a football program

the green fee, if passed will only ask for $11 a semster

the college will not pay for it because they do not think it is important even though we live in the most polluted city in the state on NC.

personally i do not think the students should have to pay for it but if we dont no one will...

oh by the way i know that there is more to it then feeling good, its about cleaner air, cleaner water, healthier people and environments, more efficient energy sources that we wont have to worry about running out...the list goes on.

Answer 1

No, the costs are high enough. The government needs to make a serious effort to promote education for in learning lies our future. Many students are working their way through college and have enough problems finding the cash for class.

Answer 2

NO!

If environmental and renewable energy projects actually made sense, they would save enough money to pay for themselves. Students shouldn't have to subsidize misguided political moves. Nobody had to bribe the school into using fluorescent lighting; it's far more efficient than incandescent and an obvious choice.

Environmentalism is a hobby at this point and the government already has a number of programs in place to help people experiment with things like solar and wind power generation. Local power companies also have grants and subsidies available for this sort of thing.

Student money should go towards education. Period.

To answer your added points:
You can't compare football to environmentalism for the simple fact that if people were as interested in one as they were the other, we'd have to pay admission to Earth Day. Besides that, football brings more money into the school and provides an avenue for athletes to get free educations.

If the leaders of your school, all of whom are college educated, do not feel that the school needs a "green" program, then I'm kind of inclined to agree with them.

My Alma Mater, UNLV is in Las Vegas. Of any city in the US, Las Vegas has one of the best climates for solar power. My school was able to get a DOE grant to install 3 massive, experimental solar collectors. 2 of the panels turned out to be of inferior design for one reason or another, but the third was simple and efficient and as a result, the local power company bought several of their own to place next to the natural gas generation plant. The point is, the money is out there. Collecting this additional fee from students is going to provide a big bank account with nowhere to go right away, and that's going to lead to wasted money on projects with inadequate merit.

I don't see how a campus green project has anything to do with the fact that you live in a polluted city. What does your campus have to do with that? Maybe I'm missing the bigger picture.

Here's another example of green vs green: At Columbia University in NYC, they have recycle bins everywhere, but at the end of the day, all the trash goes into the same bins. Why? Because the school looked at the bottom line: Cost. They found that paying the fines for not recycling was cheaper than recycling. Now, before you get too upset about this, remember that nothing that is made from recycled materials is as cheap as products made from raw materials. Plastic bottles don't turn back into plastic bottles. They turn into toxic waste and lower grade PETE pellets.

There's more to environmentalism than feeling good. IT HAS TO MAKE SENSE!

Answer 3

No, why doesn't the college just give the enviros and renewables the money they deserve for the projects from the school's frickin budget. Why charge an extra "fee." That's stupid.