“ Only at UC can one walk the entire half a mile from the parking garage to an office in Environmental Health (even where one of the previous Directors studied hazardous chemicals in lawn care products) so overwhelmed with the odor of pesticides and herbicides that they make one sick to one’s stomach” This is not progress. Not everyone will agree, but everyone will be affected. Shame on the current Director of environmental health for not standing up for the health of all the Med Campus workers.

Students sit on the lawn during the spring and fall, the grass offgasses the chemicals into nearby buildings. The walk to a from the buildings is outright unpleasant and potentially dangerous.

To spray on a Tuesday morning when there are people coming and going to work and class (and there are hospitals nearby — including Children’s) was just thoughtless –who is on deck here…. who is on deck.  No one with any sense, that is for sure. And think of the health affects of the people doing the landscaping (lest UC hired offsite, which begs another discussion).

This Med Center landscaping is grass rich…. which means that while grass is a CO₂ consuming plant, the resources required to maintain it (mowers, blowers, fertilizers, water) have been reported to make it NOT that great an investment in CO₂ reduction anyway. Again, here we are in Environmental Health department and making absolutely NO impact on our local environment, let alone the global environment. Makes me embarrassed to have worked in this field, haha, this department, this university for 50 years.