{"id":15021,"date":"2020-01-08T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=15021"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T19:12:10","slug":"good-to-the-last-drop-cc-earns-top-spot-for-water-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2020\/01\/good-to-the-last-drop-cc-earns-top-spot-for-water-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Good to the Last Drop: CC Earns Top Spot for Water Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From rain gardens to educational water courses to a live green roof, CC\u2019s efforts to conserve water are being noticed. In the latest AASHE Sustainable Campus Index, CC is a top performer in the water category out of approximately 280 other U.S. colleges and universities. CC posted a 47% reduction in total water use of vegetated grounds since 2008, the college\u2019s baseline year. \u201cNowhere in the United States is water a more critical issue than in the West, and we\u2019ve taken that issue very seriously at Colorado College,\u201d says Director of Sustainability Ian Johnson. \u201cWater is both a scarce resource and also a major expense. It\u2019s also a cultural issue that we\u2019ve worked hard to better educate our students, faculty, and staff around.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From rain gardens to educational water courses to a live green roof, CC\u2019s efforts to conserve water are being noticed. In the latest AASHE Sustainable Campus Index, CC is a top performer in the water category out of approximately 280 other U.S. colleges and universities. CC posted a 47% reduction in total water use of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-15021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2019","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15022,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions\/15022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}