{"id":209902,"date":"2021-09-27T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?p=209902"},"modified":"2021-10-04T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T13:49:52","slug":"a-path-to-a-greener-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2021\/09\/27\/a-path-to-a-greener-future\/","title":{"rendered":"A Path to a Greener Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Policy makers, energy stakeholders and faculty gathered at the third annual Clean and Sustainable Energy Summit on September 23, hosted by <a href=\"\/clean-energy-sustainability-analytics\/\">Montclair State\u2019s Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center (CESAC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) and Ocean Wind, the summit served as a forum to exchange ideas and discuss New Jersey\u2019s plans for a sustainable future.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tackling the biggest impacts of climate change is critical to the world today. Effective communication between academics\/researchers and decision-makers is a challenge, this summit gives all of us the opportunity to assist the fight against climate change with our ability to provide data-driven and actionable management strategies.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Pankaj Lal, director of CESAC and professor of Earth and Environmental Studies<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A common thread from presenters and speakers throughout the day was the message that it\u2019s not enough to just create policy. Building a path for a cleaner future means not only acting on the policies, but\u00a0<em>talking<\/em>\u00a0about them so that as many people as possible understand the sense of urgency surrounding climate issues.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on the <a href=\"\/newscenter\/2021\/09\/27\/a-path-to-a-greener-future\/\">University News<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center holds annual Energy Summit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":209903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209907,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209902\/revisions\/209907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}