FGCU Campus Trip 2/1/2014

About 3 and a half years ago, I was accepted to Florida Gulf Coast University. I remember walking on the campus and feeling like such a small figure in a huge world. Everyone there was so friendly and made me feel at home. I noticed something that I'm sure every single student at FGCU noticed. I noticed that the environment is SUCH an important issue at FGCU. Florida Gulf Coast is an amazing name in environmental friendliness that has influenced the way I perceive the world around me. I have a new appreciation for nature now.

 The students that go to FGCU are extremely knowledgeable about their surrounding environment. Compared to the average college student, we are more aware and concerned of the well-being of our school and environment around it. Florida Gulf Coast University has done a remarkable job instilling the importance of education in each and every student that attends the school. However, they have also done an even better job of enlightening and informing their students about the importance environmental sustainability.

You see, the differences between this school and a lot of other schools is that Florida Gulf Coast University actually does the things it preaches. They utilize renewable energy resources, such as their enormous solar field that generates megawatts of electricity to power the school.

Lessons about environmental education, ecological literacy and sustainability should be taught with the same importance and recognition that Florida Gulf Coast University implements. In my honest opinion, we are connected to our natural environment more than the average college student attending school in a big city somewhere. Backing on to the one and only Everglades, we are gifted with the presence of alligators, the Florida Panther, and other exotic species. FGCU is a school that lays the framework and foundation as a perfect example of what it means to be an effective environmental educational system.

Here is a picture of the FGCU solar field