{"id":10841,"date":"2017-05-15T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2017-05-25T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:32:46","slug":"fsc-an-achiever-in-clean-energy-energy-conservation-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2017\/05\/15\/fsc-an-achiever-in-clean-energy-energy-conservation-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC an &#8220;Achiever&#8221; in Clean Energy, Energy Conservation &amp; Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, a NYS organization by the name of REV Campus Challenge invited FSC to participate in its efforts to promote clean energy on college campuses. FSC &#8211; with many programs that advance clean energy, sustainability, and conservation &#8211; joined the group.<\/p>\n<p>Now, several months later, REV Campus Challenge &#8211; noting FSC&#8217;s efforts to\u00a0implement clean energy projects and principles on campus, in the classroom and in surrounding communities &#8211; has upgraded the College from Participant to Achiever, in recognition of FSC&#8217;s significant successes in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Says Marj Issapour, director of FSC&#8217;s Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center, &#8220;The REV Campus Challenge membership helps publicize our current achievements and training programs with regards to renewable energy and sustainability . It also provides programs and competitions that help us achieve our clean energy goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Achievers are &#8220;members formally committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions either in an existing statewide or national campus energy challenge and have dedicated staff to focus on clean energy investments. They have a desire to engage with the external community to promote clean energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The REV Campus Challenge promotes action in clean energy and sustainability across three areas of contribution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investment in clean energy and greenhouse gas reductions<\/li>\n<li>Education and research into a range of clean energy concepts<\/li>\n<li>Engagement of both the campus and surrounding communities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Its goal is to engage the broad academic potential of New York State\u2019s colleges and universities to help realize Governor Andrew M. Cuomo\u2019s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), a strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, a NYS organization by the name of REV Campus Challenge invited FSC to participate in its efforts to promote clean energy on college campuses. FSC &#8211; with many programs that advance clean energy, sustainability, and conservation &#8211; joined the group. Now, several months later, REV Campus Challenge &#8211; noting FSC&#8217;s efforts to\u00a0implement clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":10979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/11104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}