{"id":1866,"date":"2023-08-22T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:23:31","slug":"greening-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/2023\/08\/22\/greening-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Greening It Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Christian and Sara Reper were among 50 students from 32 universities who participated in this summer\u2019s 10-week Green Teams internship program. Each year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/\">PSEG ISS<\/a>\u00a0brings together environmentally conscientious students and organizations to tackle pressing environmental challenges in the community. This year\u2019s students rose to the challenges with which they were presented.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Reper, a senior Sustainability Science major at ÌÇÐÄvlog, passed up an internship opportunity to do outdoor recreation planning in California this summer to participate in the 2023 PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies (ISS) Green Teams Program. \u201cI\u2019m glad that I did Green Teams instead,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>A junior English major at Montclair, Emily Christian grew up \u201cwith a sustainability mindset\u201d near Atlantic City.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anything we did in the area I grew up in affected the water, affected the plants, affected the beaches. I didn\u2019t know that there was a whole school of thought around sustainability until I received the email about the Institute. So that\u2019s a really big reason why I got involved, because I feel very passionate about it. And I knew that I had skills to bring to the table that aren\u2019t just about my major.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Emily Christian<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christian says she wasn\u2019t the only humanities major in the 50-member cohort but she was the only English major. \u201cI would 100% recommend it to anyone but I would say if you\u2019re a humanities major, they need you,\u201d she says. \u201cIn order for anything to get done anywhere, you need to make a case for the money. Period. So, if you\u2019re good at persuasive writing, if you\u2019re good at persuasive speaking, if you are good at any type of writing or telling a story, your teammates need you because you\u2019re the yin to their yang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christian used her English expertise to help with writing and editing a script for a short video featuring Montclair pupscot Pebbles for the \u201cFill it Forward\u201d initiative. She also did the voice-over for the video campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"\/newscenter\/2023\/08\/22\/greening-it-forward\/\">full article on the University News<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 PSEG ISS Green Teams benefits students, organizations and medical facilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}