{"id":51404,"date":"2022-05-25T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T18:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=51404"},"modified":"2022-05-25T18:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T18:27:30","slug":"augsburg-university-alumni-tackles-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2022\/05\/25\/augsburg-university-alumni-tackles-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ALUMNI TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51405\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/05\/0422_chelsea-cool-block06-1920x1281.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/05\/0422_chelsea-cool-block06-1920x1281.jpg\" alt=\"five-year-old girl shovels dirt as man helps a two-year-old boy and four-year-old girl water the root of a tree in the ground, a crowd gathers around them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/05\/0422_chelsea-cool-block06-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/05\/0422_chelsea-cool-block06-1920x1281-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/05\/0422_chelsea-cool-block06-1920x1281-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/05\/0422_chelsea-cool-block06-1920x1281-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five-year-old Julia Martinez shovels dirt as Jake Hennessey, of the DCR Massachusetts Urban and Community Forestry Program, assists Malikai DeTar-Kock, 2, and Sonorus Salem, 4, water the root ball of a tree they just set into the ground. (Jesse Costa\/WBUR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recently, <span class=\"nc684nl6\">WBUR 90.9 FM<\/span> (NPR) spoke with Mar\u00eda Bel\u00e9n Power &#8217;07, <span class=\"nc684nl6\">Augsburg University<\/span> alumni and associate executive director with the Chelsea-based environmental group Green Roots, about the groundbreaking work her organization is doing to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat [starting small] has really been an approach that we take in a lot of our projects,\u201d says Power. \u201cPiloting small scale and ensuring that we can replicate those models to really have a much broader impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green Roots is a community-based organization dedicated to improving and enhancing the urban environment and public health in Chelsea and surrounding communities. We do so through deep community engagement and empowerment, youth leadership and implementation of innovative projects and campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2022\/05\/12\/chelsea-massachusetts-heat-island-cooling\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, WBUR 90.9 FM (NPR) spoke with Mar\u00eda Bel\u00e9n Power &#8217;07, Augsburg University alumni and associate executive director with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[224,915],"class_list":["post-51404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights","category-giving-back","tag-augsburg-alumni","tag-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51410,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51404\/revisions\/51410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}