{"id":25128,"date":"2023-03-10T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=25128"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:10:36","slug":"marshall-university-to-host-earth-week-2023-invest-in-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/marshall-university-to-host-earth-week-2023-invest-in-our-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University to host Earth Week 2023: Invest in Our Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Earth Week plans are underway for a full week of events from April 10-14 on Marshall University\u2019s Huntington campus.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for Earth Week 2023 is <em>Invest in Our Planet<\/em>. Events throughout the week will include talks, demonstrations and teach-ins; however, the main activities will take place on Wednesday, April 12, on the Memorial Student Center Plaza and Buskirk Field from 10:30 a.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m., rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to host daily events that will allow students, staff, faculty and community members to participate in energy use workshops, alternative transportation events, environmental service, connecting with our community food-based systems and supporting social justice,\u201d said Amy Parsons-White, sustainability manager at Marshall University.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is now open for anyone who would like to table at the full day event or offer a workshop or talk. To sign up for a table, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FMUEarthDayTabling&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSTams%40marshall.edu%7Ce4808371e15d4070488908db2177fefe%7C239ab2783bba4c78b41d8508a541e025%7C0%7C0%7C638140571523618739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=p30U0JjWSYkC%2FQIf%2BJ%2BYogW6EESgG80XEI5LMiw7oOk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MUEarthDayTabling<\/a>. To sign up to host a workshop or talk, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FMUEarthDaySpecialEvent&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSTams%40marshall.edu%7Ce4808371e15d4070488908db2177fefe%7C239ab2783bba4c78b41d8508a541e025%7C0%7C0%7C638140571523618739%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=j5WaLhx87lcvQqYiTzpsIivPAmtJvCRj25KZXSTmm4I%3D&amp;reserved=0\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MUEarthDaySpecialEvent<\/a>. The deadline to register is Thursday, March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have questions or is interested in participating or sponsoring another event during Earth Week is invited to contact Parsons-White by emailing <a href=\"mailto:parson133@marshall.edu\">parson133@marshall.edu<\/a>. Members of the public, organizations and school groups are invited to attend the event. For more information on Marshall\u2019s Sustainability Department, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\">https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Week plans are underway for a full week of events from April 10-14 on Marshall University\u2019s Huntington campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25129,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25128\/revisions\/25129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}