{"id":2621,"date":"2011-02-10T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2011-02-10T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T22:30:08","slug":"the-fact-files-sydney-olympic-park-develops-sustainably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/the-fact-files-sydney-olympic-park-develops-sustainably\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fact Files: Sydney Olympic Park develops sustainably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What use does an Olympic Park have after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/\">Olympics<\/a> are over? Does it just become overgrown with weeds and seldom used again?<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/florida-down-under-sydney-olympic-park.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-566\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/florida-down-under-sydney-olympic-park.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, in the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyolympicpark.com.au\/\">Sydney Olympic Park<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/sydney-2000-summer-olympics\">Sydney 2000 Olympics<\/a> was just a catalyst for the \u201clargest land remediation project in the Southern Hemisphere,\u201d according to the Sydney Olympic Park Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/auip.com\/programs\/sydney.php\">Sydney program<\/a> students tour the Park to learn how it\u2019s being transformed into a prime example of an ecologically sustainable development. The Park\u2019s 640 hectares include sporting and entertainment venues, a commercial business park and 430 hectares of public parklands. For more details, read our post <a title=\"Field Notes: Sydney Olympic Park excites students for\u00a0sustainable\u00a0practices\" href=\"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/14\/field-notes-sydney-olympic-park-excites-students-for-sustainable-practices\/\">Field Notes: Sydney Olympic Park excites students for sustainable practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alumnae from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridadownunder.org\">Florida Down Under<\/a> programs sported hats from Sydney Olympic Park at the information session last week in Gainesville. Left to right, Hannah, Andranique, Stephanie and Hannah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What use does an Olympic Park have after the Olympics are over? Does it just become overgrown with weeds and seldom used again? Well, in the case of Sydney Olympic Park, the Sydney 2000 Olympics was just a catalyst for the \u201clargest land remediation project in the Southern Hemisphere,\u201d according to the Sydney Olympic Park Authority. Our Sydney program students&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-sydney","category-the-fact-files"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}