{"id":75057,"date":"2019-09-30T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=75057"},"modified":"2019-09-30T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:15:37","slug":"wright-state-students-organize-march-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/30\/wright-state-students-organize-march-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State students organize march for climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State students came together to march for climate change awareness and protest the use of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The march took place on Sept. 27 on the Dayton Campus and Colonel Glenn Hwy. Students carried signs and chanted in their efforts to have their message heard.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Crumrine, a senior earth and environmental science major, and Shannon Collins, a graduate environmental science student, organized the march. It was inspired by a series of climate strikes occurring on college campuses and around the world over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Crumrine said one of the main goals of the march was to educate people who may not know much about climate change.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75073\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/30\/wright-state-students-organize-march-for-climate-change\/climate-march\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75073\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75073\" class=\"size-large wp-image-75073\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/09\/climate-march-508x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State students were inspired to organize a march to educate people who may not know much about climate change. (Video by Kris Sproles)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPeople in Ohio, we feel aren\u2019t very educated on the issues,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s not really a voice to let them know what\u2019s going on. We feel by giving that cause a voice it will lead to more action being taken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their efforts brought numerous students out to the march and led to a conversation with a member of the Student Government Association about what can be done in the future on Wright State\u2019s campus. One idea that was suggested was composting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood waste that goes into the trash can be diverted from the landfill and get composted instead,&#8221; Collins said. &#8220;The food waste that gets put into the landfill contributes to methane emissions and contributes to global warming.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State students came together to march for climate change awareness and protest the use of fossil fuels. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/09\/30\/wright-state-students-organize-march-for-climate-change\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":75073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75085,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75057\/revisions\/75085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}