{"id":3542,"date":"2019-07-03T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"kenyan-universities-aim-to-be-the-greenest-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/03\/kenyan-universities-aim-to-be-the-greenest-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Universities Aim To Be The Greenest In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By unenvironmentnews<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Kenya,\nover 70 universities are being called on by the UN Environment Programme and\nthe Kenyan Government to work together and transform their campuses to be the\n\u201cgreenest in the world\u201d. This comes as Strathmore University in Nairobi has put\nin place one of the greenest campuses in Africa and is offering its support to\nother Kenyan universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUniversities\nacross Africa can run on the power of the sun and set new standards for\nsustainability,\u201d says Professor da Silva of Strathmore University. \u201cBut it\u2019s\njust not on the roofs of our campuses that we need to take action. We also need\nto support students to take action in support of the planet in their personal\nlives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strathmore\nUniversity set up its own 600-kilowatt photovoltaic grid tie system about five\nyears ago and is not only enjoying free energy from the sun but also selling\nthe excess to Kenya Power under a 20-year contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another\ninitiative on campus involves \u201cgreen buildings\u201d which utilize natural lighting,\nwater evaporation cooling systems and rain water, making them much more\naffordable to run than conventional buildings. Students and faculty members are\nalso working together on projects around plastic recycling and using food\nleft-overs to produce natural gas\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/kenyan-universities-aim-be-greenest-world\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By unenvironmentnews In Kenya, over 70 universities are being called on by the UN Environment Programme and the Kenyan Government to work together and transform their campuses to be the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}