{"id":10023,"date":"2017-06-13T16:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T23:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2017-09-13T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T21:26:12","slug":"green-office-certification-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2017\/06\/13\/green-office-certification-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Office Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/planning-policy-assessment\/green-office-certification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Office Certification<\/a>\u00a0is a simple yet effective way for OSU faculty and staff to further their sustainability efforts and get recognition for their work. It\u2019s also intended to provide ideas for steps your office can take to reduce your environmental footprint and carbon emissions. The Green Office Certification was created through a partnership between the Sustainability Office, Campus Recycling, and Transportation Services.<\/p>\n<p>An online Qualtrics survey\u00a0is used to assess an office\u2019s practices in areas such as water, waste management, purchasing, transportation, and outreach. Upon completion, the survey will be scored. Bronze, silver, gold, and platinum are the four certification levels based on the score.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/sites\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/files\/sustainability\/images\/bronze.png\" alt=\"Bronze\" width=\"351\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the School of Psychological Science, the Student Sustainability Initiative, and the Center for Civic Engagement, three more offices have been Green Office Certified! These three offices have the bronze certification level. <a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/pcmm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Procurement, Contracts and Materials Management (PCMM)<\/a> was awarded on May 3, 2017. The West Dining Center Office was awarded on April 18, 2017. The Department of Recreational Sports was awarded on June 5, 2017. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>We would love to help you get your office certified! To get started, please take this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_a30MwES4sShHHbT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a>. Additionally, if you would like to see more tips on how your office can become more sustainable, visit our resources page\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/green-office-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Office Certification\u00a0is a simple yet effective way for OSU faculty and staff to further their sustainability efforts and get recognition for their work. It\u2019s also intended to provide ideas for steps your office can take to reduce your environmental footprint and carbon emissions. The Green Office Certification was created through a partnership between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292116,1],"tags":[752352,1206,629426],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-sustainability","category-uncategorized","tag-green-office-certification","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainability-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}