{"id":23,"date":"2008-10-29T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-10-29T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T18:38:00","slug":"national-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2008\/10\/29\/national-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"National Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, thanks to those who participated in the first annual Oregon University System Sustainability Conference last week.\u00a0 It was a tremendous success, in part due to great attendance.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to get a little more about that written soon, including some of my favorite moments and next steps that will occur as a result of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>In line with this thread&#8217;s theme, OSU has had some great attention lately for our sustainability-related efforts.\u00a0 The latest is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/greenpower\/awards\/winners.htm\">Green Power Leadership Award<\/a>, bestowed upon us by US EPA on Monday.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/people.html\">Andrea Norris<\/a> was in Denver to accept the award on behalf of OSU and didn&#8217;t make it back in time to do the local press, but she deserves just as much recognition, if not more, than anyone because of her leadership when she was a student to get the fee in place.\u00a0 Thanks, Andrea!\u00a0 Check the website for more <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/about.html\">awards and recognition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got to keep the momentum, and keep getting the word out about all the stuff we are doing.\u00a0 The National Wildlife Federation&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwf.org\/campusEcology\/chillout\/\">Chill Out competition<\/a> is one such way.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking for student leaders who are interested in entering the competition with a 500 word write up, a 3 minute video, or both, showing a project at OSU that combats global warming.\u00a0 There are lots of experts to help you, but we need a champion to step forward and take the lead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, thanks to those who participated in the first annual Oregon University System Sustainability Conference last week.\u00a0 It was a tremendous success, in part due to great attendance.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to get a little more about that written soon, including some of my favorite moments and next steps that will occur as a result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}