{"id":3238,"date":"2014-08-28T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2014-08-28T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:20:10","slug":"skyline-college-wins-energy-efficiency-and-sustainability-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/skyline-college-wins-energy-efficiency-and-sustainability-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyline College Wins Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/08\/California-Community-Colleges-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3239 alignleft\" alt=\"California Community Colleges Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/08\/California-Community-Colleges-Logo-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Skyline College is the winner of The California Community Colleges Board of Governors Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Award in the Faculty\/Student Initiatives category. The Award was presented for The Green Gorillas: Student-led Waste Diversion Project, created under the leadership of Dr. Carina Anttila-Suarez, Professor of Biology. The students won $2500 in funding to implement the Green Gorillas project at the Be the Light of Change Sustainability contest last year, where their team presented the project.<\/p>\n<p>The Skyline View reported that, \u201c\u2026The aim of this project was to enhance the efficiency in garbage disposal at Skyline. An eight-week study would be conducted to see how Skyline disposes of its waste and how we could make the process better. Also teams of students, &#8230;aptly named Green Gorillas would be trained to help others properly dispose of their waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another category, Proposition 39 \u2013 Self\u2010Generation, Ca\u00f1ada College was named winner for their Solar PV Installation<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Skyline College \u2013 faculty, staff, students and especially the Green Gorillas \u2013 but great kudos and thanks go to Vice Chancellor Jos\u00e9 Nu\u00f1ez and his Facilities, Operations, Maintenance team who work so hard to support and often lead our efforts in sustainability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article by Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyline College is the winner of The California Community Colleges Board of Governors Energy Efficiency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}