{"id":4,"date":"2016-11-28T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2017-04-05T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T17:37:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rewild Vancouver is a wilderness recovery strategy that aims to help the built environment work more closely with the natural world. Although &#8220;rewild&#8221; typically means a reversion to a pure and natural state, we realize that human development will not allow this to happen. Instead, we propose a re-imagination of\u00a0 how we can incorporate nature into our urban landscape. To do so, we are focusing on educating and empowering Vancouver&#8217;s residents to take some of the Greenest City goals (such as access to nature and a lighter footprint) upon themselves and adding biodiversity to residential spaces. In doing so, we will foster a sense of connection by building community and decreasing habitat fragmentation.<\/p>\n<p>We are masters students studying <a href=\"http:\/\/pdce.educ.ubc.ca\/med-in-educational-studies-education-for-sustainability\">Education for Sustainability<\/a> (MEd) through the University of British Columbia and <a href=\"http:\/\/citystudiovancouver.com\/\">CityStudio<\/a>. This blog has information and updates about our proposed MEd project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewild Vancouver is a wilderness recovery strategy that aims to help the built environment work more closely with the natural world. Although &#8220;rewild&#8221; typically means a reversion to a pure and natural state, we realize that human development will not allow this to happen. Instead, we propose a re-imagination of\u00a0 how we can incorporate nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23408,"featured_media":36,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rewildvancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}