{"id":2073,"date":"2024-05-31T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2024-05-31T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:30:34","slug":"college-green-teams-tackle-pressing-environmental-and-climate-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/2024\/05\/31\/college-green-teams-tackle-pressing-environmental-and-climate-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"College \u2018Green Teams\u2019 Tackle Pressing Environmental and Climate Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College students from 30 universities are tackling pressing environmental and climate challenges at ÌÇÐÄvlog this summer as part of the PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies\u2019 annual \u201cGreen Teams\u201d program. These challenges include inequalities exacerbated by climate change, notably food insecurity in Paterson, flood mitigation in Washington Township, and the impact of replacing natural sports fields with artificial turf in Verona.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re thinking big, we\u2019re thinking long term, we\u2019re thinking locally. We\u2019re thinking through an environmental justice and a social justice lens.<\/p>\n<footer><cite><a href=\"\/~tuiningaa\">Amy Tuininga<\/a>, Institute\u2019s director during the program\u2019s launch on May 30<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since 2016, the Green Teams program has been a platform for launching students into internships, green jobs and graduate programs. Community partners sponsor teams of undergraduates who provide research, analysis and marketing to shift corporate culture. To date, that has included 290 real-world projects, with 370 students overall assisting 50 local communities, nonprofits and national and global companies advance their sustainability projects.<\/p>\n<p>For corporate and nonprofit partners, this summer\u2019s projects will include creating a plan to influence land-use laws in Northern Jersey as part of an environmental justice initiative, evaluating the effects of greenhouse gasses and aviation and detailing how a hospital could reduce emissions by introducing a fleet of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"\/newscenter\/2024\/05\/31\/college-green-teams-tackle-pressing-environmental-and-climate-challenges\/\">Read the Full Article on the University Press Room<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montclair hosts students from 30 universities to partner with communities, companies to solve sustainability concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","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\/2073","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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/pseg-sustainability-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}