{"187781":{"#nid":"187781","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tree Campus USA Honors Tech for 5th Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESome things might get old when they happen five years in a row, but for Hyacinth Ide, Georgia Tech\u2019s associate director of landscape services, having the Institute named a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation isn\u0027t one of them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA beautiful campus provides a recruiting and retention tool for students, faculty and staff,\u201d said Ide. \u201cA great number of students selected Georgia Tech because of the beauty of the campus.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech occupies 400 acres in Atlanta, often referred to as the \u201ccity in a forest,\u201d boasting 36 percent tree coverage \u2014 the highest among all major U.S. cities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo have received the 2012 Tree Campus USA designation, a campus must have put in place five core standards for sustainable campus forestry: a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures for a campus tree program, an Arbor Day observance and the sponsorship of student service-learning projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIde credits the work of students, faculty and staff on the campus tree advisory committee for helping earn the honor. Support from campus administration and student participation in tree plantings, during events such as Tech Beautification Day, demonstrate the importance of the campus environment to all who inhabit it, he said. For Ide, earning the honor for five consecutive years demonstrates Tech\u2019s leadership in sustainability compared to other colleges and universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the landscape services team, with the help of an outside contractor, completed a tree inventory as part of the Tree Campus USA program. The team will now work to treat those trees identified as dangerous and maintain the inventory to guide future maintenance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Arbor Day Foundation launched Tree Campus USA in 2008 to honor colleges, universities and their leaders for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit of conservation. The program is supported by a grant from Toyota.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the fifth consecutive year, the Arbor Day Foundation named Georgia Tech a Tree Campus USA school for its commitment to effective community forestry management.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Arbor Day Foundation named Tech a Tree Campus USA school for its commitment to effective community forestry management."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2013-01-29 15:11:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:33","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"188711":{"id":"188711","type":"image","title":"Tree-lined Path in Front of Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449179101","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:45:01","changed":"1475894835","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:15","alt":"Tree-lined Path in Front of Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"196223","name":"treepath.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/treepath_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/treepath_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":842230,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/treepath_0.jpg?itok=naP1cKs1"}},"62510":{"id":"62510","type":"image","title":"Tree Campus USA","body":null,"created":"1449176369","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:29","changed":"1475894531","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:11","alt":"Tree Campus USA","file":{"fid":"191482","name":"trees.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/trees_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/trees_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":19801,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/trees_0.jpg?itok=LK1GvgDA"}}},"media_ids":["188711","62510"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.arborday.org\/TreeCampusUSA","title":"Tree Campus USA"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.space.gatech.edu\/landscapeplan\/","title":"Georgia Tech Landscape Master Plan"},{"url":"http:\/\/facilities.gatech.edu\/","title":"Facilities"},{"url":"http:\/\/greenbuzz.gatech.edu\/","title":"Green Buzz"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11151","name":"arbor day foundation"},{"id":"3157","name":"Facilities"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"111","name":"Landscape Master Plan"},{"id":"1990","name":"landscaping"},{"id":"1121","name":"Tree Campus USA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hyacinth.ide@facilities.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EHyacinth Ide\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAssociate Director\u003Cbr \/\u003ELandscape Services\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}