{"id":12524,"date":"2019-04-24T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/sustainability-tip-of-the-week-9\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:55:23","slug":"sustainability-tip-of-the-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/sustainability-tip-of-the-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Tip of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Sustainability Tip of the Week<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A simple wish for a better tomorrow<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happy Earth Day 2019!<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Earth Day theme is &#8220;Protect Our Species&#8221;\u00a0 here are some goals for this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Educate and raise awareness about the accelerating rate of extinction of millions of species and the causes and consequences of this phenomenon.<\/li>\n<li>Achieve major policy victories that protect broad groups of species as well as individual species and their habitats.<\/li>\n<li>Build and activate a global movement that embraces nature and its values.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage individual actions such as adopting plant based diet and stopping pesticide and herbicide use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/campaigns\/endangered-species\/earthday2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/campaigns\/endangered-species\/earthday2019\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Don\u2019t forget upcoming HVCC Earth Day Events!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Come to the Campus Center for the Sustainability Committee\u2019s annual Earth Day event and get free plants! The event is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, April 25 on the first floor of the Siek Campus Center.<\/p>\n<p>Turtle Treasures will be back with live reptiles &amp; Amphibians. We will also have displays on energy production (food waste to power).<\/p>\n<p>Please also join us to help clean up the Nature Trail on Friday, April 26, which is Arbor Day. Meet at 1 p.m. at the trail head near the Co-Gen Plant. Gloves will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions, please contact Maxine Ortiz at <a href=\"mailto:m.ortiz@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">m.ortiz@hvcc.edu<\/a> (518-629-7787) or Laurie Vivekanand at <a href=\"mailto:l.Vivekanand@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">l.Vivekanand@hvcc.edu<\/a> (518-629-7163).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The HVCC Sustainability Committee&#8217;s new feature, \u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Sustainability Tip of the Week<span style=\"color: #000000;\">,<\/span><\/span><\/strong> invited faculty, staff and students to share your sustainable ideas to share for our weekly tip. Send your tips to <a href=\"mailto:j.coons@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">j.coons@hvcc.edu<\/a> and when used, receive a token of our appreciation!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:55:23 +0000 by\u00a0j.coons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sustainability Tip of the Week A simple wish for a better tomorrow Happy Earth Day 2019! This year&#8217;s Earth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}