{"45981":{"#nid":"45981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Earns High Score on Green Report Card","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the second consecutive year, Georgia Tech garnered an overall grade of \u0022B\u0022 on the annual College Sustainability Report Card. The Sustainable Endowments Institute issues the report to measure sustainability initiatives at colleges and universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitutions are graded in nine categories, ranging from Climate Change \u0026amp; Energy, Green Building and Food \u0026amp; Recycling to Administration, Investment Priorities and Shareholder Engagement. Tech, maintaining its role as a Campus Sustainability Leader, earned an \u0022A\u0022 grade in seven of the nine categories. Last year, the Institute scored a \u0022B\u0022 in the Climate Change \u0026amp; Energy and Transportation categories. The Institute again scored an \u0022F\u0022 in both Endowment Transparency and Shareholder Engagement.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2007, Institute administration created the Office of Environmental Stewardship and named Marcia Kinstler director of sustainability. For the last two years, she has worked to aggregate and compile all data regarding sustainability efforts across academics, research and operations at Tech. Due in part to her office\u0027s efforts in reporting, Tech rose from an overall \u0022C\u0022 grade in 2008 to a \u0022B\u0022 grade last year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We knew Georgia Tech was a leader in many areas of sustainability, and many people across campus were doing extraordinary things, but we weren\u0027t able to articulate our leadership,\u0022 Kinstler said. \u0022It is only when we tell the whole story that people realize Tech has a stronger, deeper and broader sustainability program than many others who are more recognized and written about.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 330 schools were judged in nine categories, which in turn were equally weighed on a 4.0 grading scale. The highest grade earned by the 26 schools judged as Overall College Sustainability Leaders is an \u0022A-\u0022. Comparing peer schools, Stanford University scored an \u0022A-\u0022 overall, University of Michigan\u0026mdash;Ann Arbor scored a \u0022B+\u0022, and Emory University and the California Institute of Technology scored a \u0022B\u0022. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"For the second consecutive year, Georgia Tech scored well enough on the Green Report Card to be named a Campus Sustainability Leader.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Institute earns a \u0022B\u0022 on Green Report Card"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2009-10-08 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:50","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"45982":{"id":"45982","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449174338","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:38","changed":"1475894342","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:02","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"190013","name":"tgx26837.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tgx26837_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tgx26837_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42265,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tgx26837_0.jpg?itok=rXyXtCSj"}}},"media_ids":["45982"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.greenreportcard.org\/","title":"Additional Information"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/greenbuzz","title":"Green Buzz, Georgia Tech\\\u0027s Sustainability Web Site"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.stewardship.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Environmental Stewardship"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"477","name":"Georgia Tech sustainability"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"6968","name":"green report card"},{"id":"166890","name":"sustainability"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}