{"id":5292,"date":"2015-01-14T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2015-01-14T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:39:25","slug":"conversation-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation #29: Sustainability in Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/audio\/tlee029.mp3\">Conversation #29<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Meghan Fay Zanhiser\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/podcast\/images\/mfz.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"Meghan Fay Zanhiser\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A conversation with Meghan Fay Zanhiser of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aashe.org\/\">Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education<\/a> on teaching, learning and sustainability in higher education.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are a nonprofit membership-based organization that exists to serve anyone in higher education working on sustainability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meghan Fay Zanhiser is the Executive Director for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). She has been with AASHE for six years and previously held the positions of Director of Programs and STARS Program Manager. Previously, Meghan worked as Sustainability Specialist at NELSON, where she provided sustainability expertise and consulting services to various clients. She also spent over five years working at the U.S. Green Building Council where, as Manager of Community, she developed and managed a local chapter network for building industry professionals and helped create the Emerging Green Builders program that integrates students and young professionals into the green building movement. Meghan also worked as Environmental Educator for the University at Buffalo Green Office, organizing campus and community education focused on energy conservation, green building, and sustainable living. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Social Sciences, with concentrations in environmental studies and health & human services, from the University at Buffalo and a master\u2019s degree in Organization Management and Development from Fielding Graduate Institute. <\/p>\n<p>Links for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aashe.org\/\">Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Conversation #29 A conversation with Meghan Fay Zanhiser of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education on teaching, learning and sustainability in higher education. We are a nonprofit membership-based organization that exists to serve anyone in higher education working on sustainability. Meghan Fay Zanhiser is the Executive Director for the Association <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-29\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Conversation #29: Sustainability in Higher Education\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[306],"class_list":{"0":"post-5292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-podcast","7":"tag-sustainability","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-1nm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4500,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/conversation-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":5292,"position":0},"title":"Conversation #26: Sustainability","author":"Bart Everson","date":"October 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Download Conversation #26 A conversation with Daniel Greenberg of Earth Deeds on teaching, learning and sustainability. 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