{"id":12154,"date":"2010-04-22T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:53:51","slug":"green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>Green fever is spreading at the University of Central Florida &#8212; and saving thousands of dollars in energy costs &#8212; as more students, faculty and staff are pledging to do their part to help UCF become climate neutral.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Earth Day, will serve as a launching pad for individuals to commit to UCF&#8217;s long-term sustainability initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Rosen College of Hospitality Management is the first UCF college to announce its plan to go green and reduce its consumption of water, electricity and natural gas by 10 to 20 percent in one year. UCF&#8217;s Sustainability and Energy Management department is administering the challenge, working with Rosen College&#8217;s Energy Conservation Task Force. The college&#8217;s progress will be tracked online.<\/p>\n<p>UCF saved $41,240 in energy costs and enough energy to power 350 homes for a month during its &#8220;Kill-A-Watt&#8221; energy savings competition. The savings also prevented a total of 342 tons of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><em>To read the full story, click <\/em><em>here<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green fever is spreading at the University of Central Florida &#8212; and saving thousands of dollars in energy costs &#8212; as more students, faculty and staff are pledging to do their part to help UCF become climate neutral. Today, Earth Day, will serve as a launching pad for individuals to commit to UCF&#8217;s long-term sustainability initiatives. The Rosen College of&hellip;","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":12155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1475,1557,4546],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-12154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-earth-day","tag-energy","tag-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Green fever is spreading at the University of Central Florida -- and saving thousands of dollars in energy costs -- as more students, faculty and staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Green fever is spreading at the University of Central Florida -- and saving thousands of dollars in energy costs -- as more students, faculty and staff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-22T15:08:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-09T16:53:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2010\/04\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"338\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"kjlewis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"kjlewis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"kjlewis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a937f393506737b62c54e09ceb871ed1\"},\"headline\":\"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-22T15:08:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-09T16:53:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Earth Day\",\"Energy\",\"sustainability\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2010\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/\",\"name\":\"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious | University of Central Florida News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-22T15:08:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-09T16:53:51+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a937f393506737b62c54e09ceb871ed1\"},\"description\":\"Green fever is spreading at the University of Central Florida -- and saving thousands of dollars in energy costs -- as more students, faculty and staff\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2010\\\/04\\\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg\",\"width\":450,\"height\":338,\"caption\":\"Green Fever\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\",\"description\":\"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a937f393506737b62c54e09ceb871ed1\",\"name\":\"kjlewis\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2d767ae92fa4ba5c22bee1887cc19a012858cd2970b4d185c9dc69190d676242?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2d767ae92fa4ba5c22bee1887cc19a012858cd2970b4d185c9dc69190d676242?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2d767ae92fa4ba5c22bee1887cc19a012858cd2970b4d185c9dc69190d676242?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"kjlewis\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/author\\\/kjlewis\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\\\/#local-main-organization-logo\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"University of Central Florida\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious | University of Central Florida News","description":"Green fever is spreading at the University of Central Florida -- and saving thousands of dollars in energy costs -- as more students, faculty and staff","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious","og_description":"Green fever is spreading at the University of Central Florida -- and saving thousands of dollars in energy costs -- as more students, faculty and staff","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/","og_site_name":"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF","article_published_time":"2010-04-22T15:08:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-02-09T16:53:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":450,"height":338,"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2010\/04\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"kjlewis","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@UCF","twitter_site":"@UCF","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"kjlewis","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/"},"author":{"name":"kjlewis","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a937f393506737b62c54e09ceb871ed1"},"headline":"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious","datePublished":"2010-04-22T15:08:49+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-09T16:53:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/"},"wordCount":168,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2010\/04\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg","keywords":["Earth Day","Energy","sustainability"],"articleSection":["Community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2010","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/","name":"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious | University of Central Florida News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2010\/04\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg","datePublished":"2010-04-22T15:08:49+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-09T16:53:51+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a937f393506737b62c54e09ceb871ed1"},"description":"Green fever is spreading at the University of Central Florida -- and saving thousands of dollars in energy costs -- as more students, faculty and staff","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2010\/04\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2010\/04\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338.jpg","width":450,"height":338,"caption":"Green Fever"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Green Fever at UCF: It&#039;s Contagious"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/","name":"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today","description":"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a937f393506737b62c54e09ceb871ed1","name":"kjlewis","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2d767ae92fa4ba5c22bee1887cc19a012858cd2970b4d185c9dc69190d676242?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2d767ae92fa4ba5c22bee1887cc19a012858cd2970b4d185c9dc69190d676242?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2d767ae92fa4ba5c22bee1887cc19a012858cd2970b4d185c9dc69190d676242?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"kjlewis"},"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/author\/kjlewis\/"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/green-fever-at-ucf-its-contagious\/#local-main-organization-logo","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"University of Central Florida"}]}},"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2010\/04\/Green-Fever-story-photo-450x338-300x225.jpg","primary_category":6,"primary_tag":1475,"author_byline":"kjlewis","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139179,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions\/139179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"tu_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tu_author?post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}