{"70304":{"#nid":"70304","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Named Tree Campus USA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s commitment to environmental best practices received a boost as the Institute was recognized for its planting and managing of campus trees.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Arbor Day Foundation designated Tech a Tree Campus USA on Nov. 18. Tech is the 10th institution awarded this distinction for best practices in campus forestry, and is the first in the state of Georgia. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHyacinth Ide, landscape manager with Facilities, received the award Nov. 18 in Atlanta at the Partners in Community Forestry Conference. Ide\u0027s staff works to not only maintain and replace, but also increase the roughly 6,000 trees across Tech\u0027s campus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe criteria requires five core standards for institutions seeking award consideration: a campus tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures on the plan, involvement in an Arbor Day observance and institution of a service-learning project to engage students.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve the goals set in the 2006 Campus Landscape Master Plan, Facilities established the Institute\u0027s Campus Tree Care Plan in September. These goals include a 55 percent tree canopy, 22 percent woodlands coverage area, managing the impact of development and construction on campus trees, and ensuring proper removal and adequate replacement of trees. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The reason our [designation] went so fast is that we were already doing most of this,\u0022 Ide said. He applied for the designation in October.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe committee membership overseeing this plan is comprised of students, area neighborhood representatives and members across several Institute departments:Facilities, Housing, Capital Planning and Space Management, Parking and Transportation, the Center for Geographical Information Systems and the School of Biology.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETech must reapply annually to retain the Tree Campus USA designation. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Arbor Day Foundation designated Georgia Tech a Tree Campus USA on Nov. 18. The 10th institution awarded this distinction for best practices in campus forestry, Tech is the first in the state of Georgia.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech one of 10 initial institutions given designation"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-12-03 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:20","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"70305":{"id":"70305","type":"image","title":"Members of Georgia Tech\u0027s Campus Tree Advisory Co","body":null,"created":"1449177304","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:04","changed":"1475894618","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:38"}},"media_ids":["70305"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.whistle.gatech.edu\/archives\/08\/sep\/15\/trees.shtml","title":"\\\u0022Caring for Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.arborday.org\/programs\/treecampususa\/","title":"Tree Campus USA"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.facilities.gatech.edu\/tree_campus_usa.pdf","title":"Georgia Tech Campus Tree Care Plan (PDF)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1755","name":"campus tree plan"},{"id":"1121","name":"Tree Campus USA"},{"id":"1756","name":"tree planning"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nesmith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EICPA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:robert.nesmith@icpa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Robert Nesmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["robert.nesmith@icpa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}