{"47479":{"#nid":"47479","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Named Tree Campus USA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Arbor Day Foundation today honored Georgia Tech as a 2009 Tree Campus USA University for its dedication to campus forestry management and environmental stewardship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the second consecutive year Georgia Tech has been named a Tree Campus USA University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Tree Campus USA program will have a long-lasting impact at Georgia Tech as it engages college students and local citizens to plant trees and create healthier communities for people to enjoy for decades to come,\u201d said John Rosenow, chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation. \u201cThe school will benefit from exceptional tree-care practices on campus as it works with tree-care professionals in the community to improve the tree canopy in Atlanta.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETree Campus USA, a national program launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation, honors college and universities and the leaders of the campus and surrounding communities for promoting healthy urban forest management and engaging the campus community in environmental stewardship. Tree Campus USA is supported by a grant from Toyota.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech met the required five core standards of tree care and community engagement in order to receive Tree Campus USA status. Those standards are establishing a campus tree advisory committee; evidence of a campus tree-care plan; verification of dedicated annual expenditures on the campus tree-care plan; involvement in an Arbor Day observance; and the institution of a service-learning project aimed at engaging the student body.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Arbor Day Foundation launched Tree Campus USA in the fall of 2008 by planting trees at nine college campuses throughout the United States. More information about the Tree Campus USA program is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arborday.org\/TreeCampusUSA\u0022 title=\u0022www.arborday.org\/TreeCampusUSA\u0022\u003Ewww.arborday.org\/TreeCampusUSA\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Arbor Day Foundation today honored Georgia Tech as a 2009 Tree Campus USA University for its dedication to campus forestry management and environmental stewardship.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Arbor Day Foundation honors Georgia Tech for the second straight year"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2009-12-07 17:20:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:49","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39775":{"id":"39775","type":"image","title":"Members of Georgia Tech\\\u0027s Campus Tree Advisory Co","body":null,"created":"1449174117","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:21:57","changed":"1475894253","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:33"}},"media_ids":["39775"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.arborday.org\/TreeCampusUSA","title":"Tree Campus USA"}],"groups":[{"id":"1316","name":"Green Buzz"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7851","name":"arbor day"},{"id":"1121","name":"Tree Campus USA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHyacinth Ide,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFacilities Landscape Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hyacinth.ide@facilities.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehyacinth.ide@facilities.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["sarah.mallory@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}