{"id":4745,"date":"2017-04-15T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2017-04-15T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T15:14:42","slug":"climate-change-initiative-at-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2017\/04\/15\/climate-change-initiative-at-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Initiative at FIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/images\/sustainbility-climate-change-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"image of event flyer\" width=\"307\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who is familiar with FIT knows that sustainability and climate change are growing initiatives at the college. Now more than ever, FIT is taking a stand to\u00a0educate its students, faculty and the community\u00a0as a responsible act of stewardship towards our planet.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Climate change,\u00a0a new initiative introduced during the Spring 2017 semester, focuses on strategies for communicating the causes and effects on the earth. In line with the college&#8217;s goals of academic and creative excellence, innovation, and empowering the student community, FIT is uniquely positioned to educate our students on this timely topic.<\/p>\n<p>University of Alabama-Birmingham Professors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uab.edu\/cas\/biology\/people\/faculty\/james-b-mcclintock\" target=\"_blank\">James B. McClintock<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s foremost polar marine biologists, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uab.edu\/cas\/english\/people\/faculty-directory\/adam-vines\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Vines<\/a>, celebrated author and creative writing teacher, will visit FIT from Tuesday, April 18, to Thursday, April 20, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For event information, see the event flyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/documents\/climate-change-event-flyer.pdf\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScEJd16dIzWSW8Nq3-dKVwyo__kjb6mzoyCvyNHytr1UFplNA\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\">RSVP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meli B.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who is familiar with FIT knows that sustainability and climate change are growing initiatives at the college. Now more than ever, FIT is taking a stand to\u00a0educate its students, faculty and the community\u00a0as a responsible act of stewardship towards our planet. Climate change,\u00a0a new initiative introduced during the Spring 2017 semester, focuses on strategies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2017\/04\/15\/climate-change-initiative-at-fit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate Change Initiative at FIT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[133,31161,8552,31451,41182,48522],"tags":[35261,15274,42,48522,145],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-campus-life","category-fit-resources","category-on-campus-fun","category-fyi","category-melinda","tag-blogger","tag-climate-change","tag-fit","tag-melinda","tag-nyc","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-1ex","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}