{"id":579789,"date":"2010-05-26T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=12080"},"modified":"2010-05-26T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:04:16","slug":"u-s-epa-names-campus-2010-clean-air-excellence-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579789","title":{"rendered":"U.S. EPA names campus 2010 Clean Air Excellence winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today awarded its Clean Air Excellence Award to America&#8217;s Greenest Campus. The winners \u2013 the college with the greatest number of participants, and the college with the greatest per-person carbon reduction \u2013 were each awarded $5,000 for sustainability projects of their choosing. University of Maryland, College Park (with 2,257 participants) and Arizona&#8217;s Rio Salado College (with 4.4% carbon reduced per person) were the victors.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide contest engaged college students through social media and on-campus organizing, encouraging participants to track their energy use and reduce their carbon footprints.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon output wasn&#8217;t all that college students reduced during America&#8217;s Greenest Campus. The results reflected $4.25 million in savings and significant energy\/resource reductions across the board:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>186,705 therms of gas<\/li>\n<li>156,743 gallons of gasoline<\/li>\n<li>154,838 tons of paper<\/li>\n<li>28.41 million gallons of water<\/li>\n<li>5,984 megawatt hours of electricity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>America&#8217;s Greenest Campus, the nation&#8217;s largest on-campus energy efficiency campaign, is a partnership between SmartPower, the nation&#8217;s leading non-profit marketers of clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency, and Efficiency 2.0, the premier online energy efficiency software company for utilities and governments, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s Greenest Campus will re-launch this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today awarded its Clean Air Excellence Award to America&#8217;s Greenest Campus. The winners \u2013 the college with the greatest number of participants, and the college with the greatest per-person carbon reduction \u2013 were each awarded $5,000 for sustainability projects of their choosing. University of Maryland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579789","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\/4306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}