{"id":14675,"date":"2012-01-19T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=14675"},"modified":"2012-01-19T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:13:39","slug":"brock-celebrates-its-place-in-the-biosphere-with-un-flag-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/01\/brock-celebrates-its-place-in-the-biosphere-with-un-flag-raising\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock celebrates its place in the biosphere with UN flag raising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock is one of only a handful of universities in Canada to be distinctly situated within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Next Thursday, the University will raise a United Nations flag at its main campus as a symbol of its commitment to innovative and sustainable research, teaching and service.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is being co-ordinated by the newly established <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/environmental-sustainability-research-centre\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Sustainability Research Centre<\/a> (ESRC) and takes place at 11 a.m. at the flagpoles in front of Schmon Tower.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be followed by the ESRC\u2019s second annual seminar series at Rodman Hall in St. Catharines from 1 to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s seminar will focus on themes of water. It will include presentations by centre researchers looking at issues such as the changing landscape of water governance in Canada and the Niagara region, and the politics of water in irrigation economies.<\/p>\n<p>The session will also include an update on an ESRC initiative known as the Niagara Migrant Children\u2019s Educational Award. The award is a community-based partnership among Niagara\u2019s agricultural workers, the City of St. Catharines, Brock University, Niagara College and the Niagara Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>These events are free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock is one of only a handful of universities in Canada to be distinctly situated within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14683,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions\/14683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}