{"id":335,"date":"2020-11-13T14:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/?page_id=335"},"modified":"2020-11-13T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:53:10","slug":"sustainability-at-keene-state-college","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/sustainability-at-keene-state-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/files\/2020\/11\/cs-river_orig-1-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"KSC students cleaning up a local stream\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/files\/2020\/11\/cs-river_orig-1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/files\/2020\/11\/cs-river_orig-1.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Keene State College is nationally recognized for our commitment to sustainability. At Keene State we believe that building a sustainable world is paramount. Environmental Studies is deeply involved in teaching, researching, and practicing sustainable living.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keene State is the National Winner of the 2019 EPA Food Recovery Challenge Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the award given from the EPA to the institution that has seen the most growth in food waste prevention or diversion. This year, <a href=\"http:\/\/Keene State is the National Winner of the 2019 EPA Food Recovery Challenge Award This is the award given from the EPA to the institution that has seen the most growth in food waste prevention or diversion. This year, the EPA recognizes Keene State College as the #1 school in the nation for increasing our food waste diversion efforts! The EPA will use our campus\u2019 story as a model of excellence in higher-ed across the United States! In 2018 our expanded composting program in the Dining Commons diverted 110.66 tons of organic waste from the landfill. In 2019 with the expansion into the Student Center and Lloyds we upped that number again and composted 160.44 tons of organic waste!!!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the EPA recognizes Keene State College as the #1 school<\/a> in the nation for increasing our food waste diversion efforts! The EPA will use our campus\u2019 story as a model of excellence in higher-ed across the United States!<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 our expanded composting program in the Dining Commons diverted 110.66 tons of organic waste from the landfill. In 2019 with the expansion into the Student Center and Lloyds we upped that number again and composted 160.44 tons of organic waste!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keene.edu\/office\/sustain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about sustainability at KSC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keene State College is nationally recognized for our commitment to sustainability. At Keene State we believe that building a sustainable world is paramount. Environmental Studies is deeply involved in teaching, researching, and practicing sustainable living. Keene State is the National&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/sustainability-at-keene-state-college\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Campus Sustainability<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"class_list":["post-335","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/esgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}