{"id":23993,"date":"2013-08-07T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=23993"},"modified":"2013-08-07T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:11:10","slug":"brock-first-to-reach-leader-status-in-regions-sustainability-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/08\/brock-first-to-reach-leader-status-in-regions-sustainability-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock first to reach leader status in Region&#8217;s sustainability strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sustainability.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23996\" title=\"sustainability\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sustainability.jpg\" alt=\"sustainability\" width=\"468\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brock University is a leader in the eyes of Niagara Region.<\/p>\n<p>The University is the first organization to achieve leader status within the Region&#8217;s <a title=\"Sustainable Niagara\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/government\/planning\/sustainability\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Niagara plan,<\/a> a 50-year community plan that emphasizes sustainability in Regional government decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>The leader level is the plan&#8217;s highest level of commitment to sustainability that can be achieved. The University got the nod for incorporating <a title=\"Sustainable Niagara\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/government\/planning\/sustainability\/sustainable-niagara-results.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Niagara goals<\/a> within its own sustainability policy, which was adopted by the board of trustees last June.<\/p>\n<p>Brock&#8217;s policy draws from not only the Region&#8217;s sustainability strategy, but also the Council of Ontario Universities pledge to foster sustainable environments at the province&#8217;s universities, and the main characteristics of UNESCO biosphere reserves, noted Brian Hutchings, Vice-President, Finance and Administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sustainability is one of our core values here at Brock,&#8221; Hutchings said. &#8220;Creating a sustainable campus involves the commitment and co-operation of various partners at the University, in our community and beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable Niagara was endorsed by Regional council last year. To support its implementation, the <a title=\"Partner in the Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/government\/planning\/sustainability\/becoming-a-partner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Region has encouraged individuals and organizations to partner <\/a>in the plan.<\/p>\n<p>The plan includes three levels of commitment: participating partner, priority action partner and leader.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Robson, the Region&#8217;s commissioner of integrated community planning, said the Region is excited by Brock&#8217;s achievement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sustainable Niagara is a community plan. By taking the final step of introducing a Sustainability Policy, Brock is essentially bringing that plan to life and committing to a sustainable future for Niagara,&#8221; Robson said. &#8220;Our hope is that other partner organizations make that commitment to become a leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is a leader in the eyes of Niagara Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[460,617,44,1233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23998,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23993\/revisions\/23998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}