{"id":71687,"date":"2021-04-15T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=71687"},"modified":"2021-04-15T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T19:59:17","slug":"earth-day-event-marks-return-of-brock-and-niagara-parks-environmental-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/04\/earth-day-event-marks-return-of-brock-and-niagara-parks-environmental-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day event marks return of Brock and Niagara Parks environmental speaker series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara Parks and Brock University\u2019s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre have partnered once again to host an Environmental Stewardship Speaker Series, which will start with an Earth Day event next week.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing virtual series will kick off at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 22 with guest speaker Robyn Bourgeois, Acting Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement at Brock University, who will discuss the connection between the land, body and traditional knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more and join the audience live on the day of the event, <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/esrc\/stewardship-speaker-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the Environmental Speaker Series website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The series aims to showcase a diverse collection of renowned environmental leaders and is part of Brock and Niagara Parks\u2019 ongoing collaboration and support through the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/esrc\/environmental-stewardship-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Excellence in Environmental Stewardship Initiative.<\/a> In recent years, this has included the development of the Niagara Parks Environmental Stewardship Strategy and Action Plan, in addition to providing Brock faculty and students access to Niagara Parks properties such as the Niagara Glen to complete important environmental research and engagement initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Both partners hope to announce additional speakers as a part of this ongoing series in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara Parks and Brock University\u2019s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre have partnered once again to host an Environmental Stewardship Speaker Series, which will start with an Earth Day event next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[703,296,6540,6056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71687"}],"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=71687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71689,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71687\/revisions\/71689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}