{"id":38910,"date":"2016-05-09T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=38910"},"modified":"2016-05-09T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T17:21:26","slug":"acc-selects-winning-eco-bag-design-during-activity-filled-earth-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/09\/acc-selects-winning-eco-bag-design-during-activity-filled-earth-week\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC selects winning Eco Bag design during activity-filled Earth Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38911\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/ecobag2016winningdesign.jpg\" alt=\"ecobag2016winningdesign\" width=\"281\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/ecobag2016winningdesign.jpg 625w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/ecobag2016winningdesign-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/ecobag2016winningdesign-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/>Austin Community College student Rawan Fakhreddine won ACC&#8217;s 2016 Eco Bag Art contest.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty, staff, and students selected Fakhreddine\u2019s colorful design during Earth Week, April 18-22. It will be printed on reusable bags that will be displayed on campuses and distributed at events for the next year. Bags also will be available for purchase. Details will be posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/offices\/environmental-stewardship\/ecobag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eco Bag<\/a> webpage.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_38914\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38914\" class=\"wp-image-38914 \" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/EcoBag-Grand-Prize-Winner-Rawan-Fakhreddine-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"EcoBag Grand Prize Winner Rawan Fakhreddine\" width=\"333\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/EcoBag-Grand-Prize-Winner-Rawan-Fakhreddine-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/EcoBag-Grand-Prize-Winner-Rawan-Fakhreddine-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/EcoBag-Grand-Prize-Winner-Rawan-Fakhreddine.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-38914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawan Fakhreddine won the 2016 Eco bag contest. She is joined by Sustainability Coordinator Darien Clary, Mauri Winters, student life coordinator, Pinnacle Campus Manager David Tucker, and Roberto Enriquez, student life coordinator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fakhreddine, who plans to major in neuroscience and hopes to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin in spring, says she wanted to illustrate that ecosystems are connected and interdependent, and highlight the importance of protecting them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to portray all aspects of the environment and nature. What better way to do that than to use Mother Nature as the main inspiration,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38912\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/ecobag2016-Honorable-Mention-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"ecobag2016 Honorable Mention\" width=\"228\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/ecobag2016-Honorable-Mention-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/ecobag2016-Honorable-Mention-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/05\/ecobag2016-Honorable-Mention.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/>Student Dina Williams earned honorable mention for her design. She will receive a Timbuk2 backpack.<\/p>\n<h2>Earth Week<\/h2>\n<p>The eco bag contest was one of many activities in a rainy but busy week of wellness walks, community cleanup, gardening, and earth-friendly fun.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>View photos of the ACC community doing their part to preserve our environment:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/accdistrict\/albums\/72157665754072754\" title=\"ACC Earth Week 2016 by Austin Community College, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7526\/26882635576_39c58cb669.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='2016 Grand Prize Rawan Fakhreddine'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The focus on sustainability extended to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/groundbreaking-celebrates-new-san-gabriel-campus\/\">San Gabriel (Leander) Campus groundbreaking<\/a> on April 21, where the Cypress Creek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/offices\/environmental-stewardship\/go-green\/green-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Team<\/a> helped divert 93 percent of waste from the landfill.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/offices\/environmental-stewardship\/go-green\/green-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn how you can join a campus Green Team.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/offices\/environmental-stewardship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainability Office<\/a> webpage to learn about ACC&#8217;s award-winning sustainability initiatives and the many ways faculty, staff, and students can go green.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College student Rawan Fakhreddine won ACC&#8217;s 2016 Eco Bag Art contest. Faculty, staff, and students selected Fakhreddine\u2019s colorful design during Earth Week, April 18-22. It will be printed on reusable bags that will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/09\/acc-selects-winning-eco-bag-design-during-activity-filled-earth-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3932,"featured_media":38911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[54,961],"class_list":["post-38910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","tag-earth-week","tag-eco-bag-contest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}