{"id":28093,"date":"2010-06-25T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=28093"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:32","slug":"climate-plan-university-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/06\/25\/climate-plan-university-business\/","title":{"rendered":"University Business praises ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ climate and facilities planning"},"content":{"rendered":"

A University Business<\/em> magazine story, “Keeping the Commitment,”<\/a> explains how U.S. college and university presidents are keeping true to their sustainability promises during hard economic times. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is singled out for efficiently aligning its carbon action plan with overall facilities planning efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way we approached our climate action plan is characteristic of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½,\u201d says ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ President Elaine Tuttle Hansen. \u201cWe don\u2019t throw money at problems. We figure out a solution within our means.\u201d<\/p>\n

The magazine, a national publication for higher education decision makers, notes that ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is working toward its “aggressive goal” of carbon neutrality by 2020 while also moving forward with a new phase of facilities planning and construction.<\/p>\n

The story quotes Sustainability Coordinator Julie Rosenbach, who explains that ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has integrated sustainability ideas and costs into its infrastructure planning, rather than proposing the projects separately, where they would compete for funding.<\/p>\n

Integrated planning saves money, increases efficiencies and ensures sustainable growth, she says. \u201cOften the goals of energy savings and greenhouse gas reductions and saving money are compatible overall; it\u2019s the initial capital costs that make people associate sustainability with higher cost.” View story from University Business<\/em>, June 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The College’s approach to its climate action plan — integrating sustainability costs into ongoing infrastructure needs — is featured in University Business<\/em>, a national publication for higher education decision makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[232,11009],"tags":[11051,10840,10885],"class_list":["post-28093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-sustainability","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-elaine-tuttle-hansen","tag-julie-rosenbach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62417,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28093\/revisions\/62417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}