{"id":169516,"date":"2021-02-25T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=169516"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:14:41","slug":"inspiring-students-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/02\/inspiring-students-to-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Inspiring Students to Save the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSustainability is arguably the biggest challenge we face in the 21st century,\u201d says Michael Willig. It\u2019s not just about sustainability, though. \u201cProbably the most important questions we have to answer are not if a system is sustainable, but if it is desirable,\u201d says the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. \u201cWe have many paths we can take in our stewardship, but science doesn\u2019t tell us which of those paths to take per se \u2014 it\u2019s human values that guide us. I don\u2019t think that each of us fully understands how we might marshal those perspectives and ways of knowing to the common good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Willig also directs UConn\u2019s Institute of the Environment \u2014 tasked with bringing together science, the humanities, and social science to chart a course to a greener world. One of the many things the Institute is doing to help students find such perspectives and paths is getting them into the field with research programs abroad. A partnership with the Organization for Tropical Studies allows students from around the world to take UConn courses at three field stations in Costa Rica and one in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2021\/02\/11\/inspiring-students-to-save-the-planet\/\">Read on for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSustainability is arguably the biggest challenge we face in the 21st century,\u201d says Michael Willig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":119608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1805,2226,2387,2235,102],"tags":[2242,931,2253],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-169516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-clas","category-sustainability","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 16:22:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169525,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169516\/revisions\/169525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/119608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169516"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=169516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=169516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}