{"id":2229,"date":"2010-05-14T08:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-05-14T08:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T20:48:27","slug":"field-notes-sydney-olympic-park-excites-students-for-sustainable-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/field-notes-sydney-olympic-park-excites-students-for-sustainable-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Notes: Sydney Olympic Park excites students for sustainable\u00a0practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon our Sydney students, pictured left,\u00a0ventured to Sydney Olympic Park to learn about its water and energy innovations.<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/uf-group.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-50\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/uf-group.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group drove through Newington, the world\u2019s first sustainable suburb, which was originally the 2000 Sydney Olympics\u2019 athletes housing site.<\/p>\n<p>Student Jastevia Sallet says, \u201cI love how all the houses have recycled water. It was cool how the purple meter supplies recycled water and the green one is potable, drinking water.\u201d The meters are located in the front of each home and represent the two types of water houses receive.<\/p>\n<p>Out at the water treatment pond, treatment plant and the Brickpit water storage reservoir, students observed the processing of sewage and storm water from the area. The recycled water is then pumped to the Park and Newington for all uses except drinking water and showers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur guide Marianne\u2019s motherly characteristic made us feel very comfortable around her,\u201d says student Liz Lozano. \u201cBut her enthusiasm for the sustainability of the Park really excited us too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the water management practices, students were impressed by the abundance of solar panels for energy found throughout the Park. The students all believe the Park has opened their eyes to new methods of sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon our Sydney students, pictured left,\u00a0ventured to Sydney Olympic Park to learn about its water and energy innovations. The group drove through Newington, the world\u2019s first sustainable suburb, which was originally the 2000 Sydney Olympics\u2019 athletes housing site. Student Jastevia Sallet says, \u201cI love how all the houses have recycled water. It was cool how the purple meter supplies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-sydney","category-field-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}