{"id":546861,"date":"2010-04-29T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=44008"},"modified":"2010-04-29T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:45:44","slug":"lifetime-achievement-award-presented-to-spengler-and-buckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546861","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime achievement award presented to Spengler and Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Office of the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/\">Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> (EPA) has awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Extension School<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/faculty\/john-spengler\/\">John Spengler<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?s=George+Buckley\">George Buckley<\/a> an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their exceptional work and commitment to the environment. The award recognizes the two as outstanding environmental advocates who have dedicated their lives toward preserving and protecting the New England region\u2019s natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Spengler is director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.harvard.edu\/envr\/\">Sustainability and Environmental Management Program<\/a> at Harvard Extension School and Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard School of Public Health<\/a>. Buckley is assistant director of the Sustainability and Environmental Management Program. They received their awards at a special ceremony in Boston on April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is well-deserved recognition for Jack Spengler and George Buckley,\u201d said Michael Shinagel, Harvard dean of Continuing Education and University Extension. \u201cTheir commitment to the environment transcends the classroom and provides an inspiring model for our graduate sustainability and environmental management students to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Harvard Extension School\u2019s John Spengler and George Buckley an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their exceptional work and commitment to the environment. The award recognizes the two as outstanding environmental advocates who have dedicated their lives toward preserving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}