{"id":118,"date":"2011-10-21T15:26:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/21\/wspa-tv-highlights-furmans-sustainability-efforts\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:38:51","slug":"wspa-tv-highlights-furmans-sustainability-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wspa-tv-highlights-furmans-sustainability-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"WSPA-TV highlights Furman&#8217;s sustainability efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/go-green.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-615 lazyload\" title=\"go-green\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/go-green.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"158\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 186px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 186\/158;\" \/><\/a>WSPA-TV featured Furman\u2019s sustainability efforts in its \u201cGo Green\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p>The story by reporter Justin Cooper highlighted the university\u2019s \u201cliving machine\u201d that uses natural processes to clean waste water on campus.\u00a0 The story also referred to the \u201csolar panels that help power this plant\u201d and that \u201cstudents also have electric car charging stations on campus and even a living garden, all part of the sustainability master plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior Brittany Lins was interviewed in the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Furman is among the leaders in higher education for its wide-ranging efforts to promote environmental awareness.\u00a0 During the past decade, Furman has incorporated sustainability in its university strategic plan, completed a sustainability master plan, founded the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability, built the first LEED-certified building in South Carolina and created an undergraduate major in Sustainability Science (the first of its kind at a liberal arts college).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.wspa.com\/lifestyles\/go-green-save-green\/2011\/oct\/14\/go-green-save-green-furmans-new-green-master-plan-ar-2556179\/\">Watch the video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman\u2019s sustainability efforts were featured in WSPA-TV&#8217;s \u201cGo Green\u201d series.  The story by reporter Justin Cooper highlighted the university\u2019s \u201cliving machine\u201d that uses natural processes to clean waste water on campus.  Senior Brittany Lins was interviewed in the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}