{"id":976,"date":"2011-05-09T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T01:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2011-05-09T18:56:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T01:56:25","slug":"winners-of-student-sustainability-writing-contest-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2011\/05\/09\/winners-of-student-sustainability-writing-contest-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of student sustainability writing contest announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/strong>Five winning writers have been chosen for \u201cThe Great Work: Re-imagining Humanity as the Planet Changes,\u201d the first annual sustainability writing contest for Oregon State University students.<\/span><\/p>\n

OSU’s Spring Creek Project and the Student Sustainability Initiative sponsored the contest. Winners receive $100 and a chance to help shape the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Goodrich, program director for the Spring Creek Project, said the motivation for the contest is \u201cto encourage students to imagine new ways of thinking about success, community, and happiness as climate destabilization and declining cheap energy lead to environmental, economic and social disruptions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some ideas about greener technology,\u201d said Goodrich, \u201cbut the bigger challenge \u2013 imagining hopeful stories about better ways of human thriving \u2013 has hardly begun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The contest was funded by a grant from the OSU Student Sustainability Initiative. Erin Harrington, graduate student in English and this year\u2019s Spring Creek Project intern, wrote the grant proposal and directed the contest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The writings will appear in a forthcoming insert of the Daily Barometer, OSU\u2019s student-run newspaper, to be published the week of May 16.<\/span><\/p>\n

The winners are:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong> <\/span>Alexis White, graduate student in MFA program from Portland, OR – winning piece: \u201cAnadromy\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan McDowell, freshman in education and fisheries and wildlife from Yachats, OR <\/span>– winning piece: “Riding a Green Bike into a Greener Tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gina Meredith, senior in liberal arts (OSU Cascades) from Bend, OR <\/span><\/strong> – winning piece: \u201cFruition\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong> Danielle White, senior in wood science and technology from Corvallis, OR – winning piece: \u201cBuffalo Road\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong> Rebecca Olson, graduate student in MFA program from Shoreview, Minn.<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> – winning piece: \u201cSubdivision\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Media contact: Angela Yeager, 541-737-0784<\/a>; angela.yeager@oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Charles Goodrich, 541-737-6198<\/a>; charles.goodrich@oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five winning writers have been chosen for \u201cThe Great Work: Re-imagining Humanity as the Planet Changes,\u201d the first annual sustainability writing contest for Oregon State University students. OSU’s Spring Creek Project and the Student Sustainability Initiative sponsored the contest. Winners receive $100 and a chance to help shape the future. Charles Goodrich, program director for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}