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>>ANCHOR: RIT professor Ann Howard is being honored for her work in sustainability. Here's
Katrina Irwin with a Go Green report.
>>REPORTER: Ann Howard loves working with students. But she likes it even more when
her students get out into the community.
>>ANN HOWARD: For about 13 years we have been creating learning opportunities for our students
in partnerships with community leaders primarily on the northwest neighborhoods of Rochester.
>>REPORTER: It's an idea called community sustainability.
>>ANN HOWARD: This is actually an emerging understanding of sustainability.
>>REPORTER: It's a way communities work together to solve problems and keep things moving forward.
Howard has used students there to work with groups in the city.
>>ANN HOWARD: We've been very involved in the urban gardening movement. In that community
students have been actively engaged in youth leadership development. We create learning
communities between RIT students and young people in the community.
>>REPORTER: Now she is being honored as a national sustainability champion for her efforts.
>>ANN HOWARD: It is very much an honor, very humble. Awards like this not just one person
who makes things happen. I'm really grateful for the level of student participation we
have had in all of our work. The students are really the ones who create learning opportunity
for themselves as well as the exchange of information between the community and students.
>>REPORTER: With this week's Go Green report, I'm Katrina Irwin.