{"id":8303,"date":"2015-07-28T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2015-07-28T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T21:07:37","slug":"osu-ranked-in-list-of-greenest-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/07\/28\/osu-ranked-in-list-of-greenest-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU Ranked in List of Greenest Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcolleges.com\/\">BestColleges.com<\/a> recently released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcolleges.com\/features\/greenest-universities\/\">2015 list of Greenest Colleges<\/a>, where Oregon State was ranked #10! Our campus was listed among schools such as Stanford, Colorado State, and even our fellow Pac-12 school, Arizona State.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/07\/bestcolleges-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8307\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/07\/bestcolleges-logo.png\" alt=\"bestcolleges-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ranking was based on several criteria, including our already existing <a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/planning-policy-assessment\/stars\">STARS<\/a> rating. Our STARS rating\u00a0is a reflection of OSU&#8217;s excellence in academics, engagement, operations, planning &amp; administration, &amp; innovation.<\/p>\n<p>In the list, Oregon State is praised for its nationally recognized programs in marine science, forestry, conservation biology, and more. Our cutbacks on energy usage and <a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/outreach\/campuses-take-charge\">Campuses Take Charge<\/a> program also helped us to gain such an awesome ranking!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so excited to add another ranking to our list of sustainability recognitions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BestColleges.com recently released a 2015 list of Greenest Colleges, where Oregon State was ranked #10! Our campus was listed among schools such as Stanford, Colorado State, and even our fellow Pac-12 school, Arizona State. The ranking was based on several criteria, including our already existing STARS rating. Our STARS rating\u00a0is a reflection of OSU&#8217;s excellence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,1292116],"tags":[707767,3090,3089,628826],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-campus-sustainability","tag-greenest-colleges","tag-rankings","tag-recognition","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","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\/6872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}