Comments on: Long live the UC Davis domes

By: Mark E. Mooney

Mark E. Mooney — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:48:30 +0000

The joy and responsibility of caring for your own house and land while going to school is priceless. The people that have lived, loved and learned in the Domes community have gone on to do great works. They are a lucky breed apart from those who matriculated in concrete squares with no gardens… Dome meetings teach a kind of community that isn’t offered elsewhere. Meg and I were in Dome 5 from 1972 through 1976. We were married while Domies. Preserve them. Re-build them. Fight to keep them. Build more of them. Build another 14 around the other side of the property, then re-build the originals. Don’t let this cherished and valuable resource die.
Mark Mooney

By: Joseph Stewart

Joseph Stewart — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:08:19 +0000

Living in the domes is one of the most valuable things I’ve done with my life. The structures are safe and require only minor repairs. Terminating the leases is an extreme overreaction!

By: Ben Pearl

Ben Pearl — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:42:48 +0000

Davis owes a huge debt to the Domes as a space for living and learning about Sustainability. Long before anyone had heard of Michael Pollen, Chez Panisse, or Bill McKibben’s ‘Cradle to Cradle,’ students were utilizing solar technology, composting, and organic gardening. Terminating the incredible student culture that has grown and flourished at the Domes…it’s own ‘institute’ of sorts…would be equivalent to cutting vital roots of the sustainability we now celebrate and hope to encourage here in the Davis community.