{"id":58787,"date":"2017-04-13T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=58787"},"modified":"2020-03-13T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:02:39","slug":"uh-hilo-sustainability-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/13\/uh-hilo-sustainability-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo takes first step to developing a certificate in sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_58790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58790\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hilo-sustainability-courses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"404\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hilo-sustainability-courses.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hilo-sustainability-courses-260x169.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students work with Professor Bill Sakai (center) on one of several aquaponics systems at the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo Farm Lab at Pana&#699;ewa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> has designated 29 courses as sustainability focused (s-focus), where most of the course is all about sustainability, or sustainability-topic related (s-related), where a portion of the course will immerse students in sustainability topics. S-ready courses are just entering the designation process.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/04\/11\/uh-hilo-announces-29-courses-now-designated-as-focused-on-sustainability\/\">View the fall 2017 offerings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> System is working on different models for a sustainability certificate and the s-focused courses will count towards that. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo is also working on a model for a sustainability certificate that complements the campus curricula.<\/p>\n<p>Courses are available in various departments including anthropology, engineering, geography and more. Course titles include cultural anthropology, cultures of oceania, and energy, economics and the environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/04\/11\/uh-hilo-announces-29-courses-now-designated-as-focused-on-sustainability\/\">&#8212;A <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em> article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Susan Enright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo now has 29 courses designated as focused on sustainability topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[73,14,907],"class_list":["post-58787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58787"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113593,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58787\/revisions\/113593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}