{"id":3766,"date":"2015-05-13T20:49:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T00:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/13\/mastering-the-green-classroom\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:17:55","slug":"mastering-the-green-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/mastering-the-green-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering the &#8220;green&#8221; classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17949 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/ees-usa-today-image-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"ees-usa-today-image-smaller\" width=\"240\" height=\"230\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/230;\" \/>\u201cGreen thinking\u201d has moved into classrooms, where students earn degrees specifically focused on sustainability studies or add an Earth-friendly spin to more traditional majors. Furman launched its sustainability science major in 2011, which allows students to explore connections between the environment, economics and social systems. The university\u2019s efforts in this area were included in an article that appeared in <em>USA Today Green Living<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGreen thinking\u201d has moved into classrooms, where students earn degrees specifically focused on sustainability studies or add an Earth-friendly spin to more traditional majors. Furman launched its sustainability science major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,34,17,37,6,35,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-admission","category-centers-and-institutes","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","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=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}