{"id":76320,"date":"2017-03-02T09:20:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320//?p=76320"},"modified":"2019-07-02T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:00:41","slug":"student-turns-passion-environment-think-tank-ucf-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320//student-turns-passion-environment-think-tank-ucf-sustainability/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320//","title":{"rendered":"Student Turns Passion for Environment into Think Tank for UCF Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tucked behind the 色花堂 Police Department on Libra Drive sits a single-story, brick-facade building that houses UCF Facilities and Safety. There, about 100 people plan new buildings, maintain landscapes, create sustainability initiatives and more for UCF. Thousands of cars zoom past daily, but likely not many passersby realize it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019s there./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/n
Hannah Hollinger is one of the few who does. A senior studying environmental studies, Hollinger became aware 色花堂 Facilities and Safety by being involved in Energy Knights, a student club that focuses on spreading knowledge of how to be more environmentally friendly. The Energy Knights/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019 president at the time told Hollinger that Facilities and Safety was looking for an intern./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u201cI went to see what it was about, and I was beside myself,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u201d Hollinger said. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u201cI thought /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2018This is what I want to get into./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019 I didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019t even realize it existed./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/n
In July 2015 Hollinger became Facilities and Safety/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019s Sustainability Initiatives/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019 social outreach intern, in charge of marketing campaigns that can educate the UCF community on sustainability efforts. After a year of seeing firsthand how Facilities and Safety works to make UCF a more sustainable campus, she realized something was missing: student input./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u201cI realized how, as a student, we don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019t have access to understand what happens behind closed doors when it comes to sustainability, operations and facilities at UCF,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u201d she said. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u201cWe needed a connecting piece between students and operations./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/n
That/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019s what inspired her to create the Student Sustainability Advisory Committee, a 13-person committee that began last August. It gives students access to UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019s faculty and staff Sustainability Advisory Committee meetings, and the opportunity to help improve UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/u2019s sustainability in return for internship credit. Students commit for one academic year to create proposals on how they think UCF can improve its sustainability and present them to SAC members who can help make them a reality. The first proposals are expected to be presented this month./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/76320/n