{"id":1344,"date":"2012-04-05T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2012-04-05T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:02:18","slug":"oil-addicts-transition-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"oil addicts, Transition Towns…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The campaign rolls on…\u00a0 In the last week we appeared in the Northwest Signal Daily News<\/em>, which is circulated throughout Northwest Florida.\u00a0 I was asked about offshore drilling in a newspaper office not far from the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 I said while the oil from the Deep Water Horizon spill (the worst accidental spill in U.S. history) was cleaned off the surface, it sill floats in the water columns below the surface and is entrained in the sediment on the bottom as well.\u00a0 And speaking of ‘bottoms,’ I said that we have become a nation of addicts when it comes to oil and the Deep Water Horizon catastrophy should have been analogous to an alcoholic\/addict “hitting bottom.”\u00a0 (Well, I call\u00a0’em like I see\u00a0’em — no matter who the local populace is.)\u00a0 Note:\u00a0<\/strong> There is a movement afoot called “Transition Towns.”\u00a0 It is comprised, in essence, of people in psuedo, self-help groups who are supporting each other in getting off the ‘oil habit’ to help a town ‘transition’ to alternative forms of energy use.\u00a0 I attended one of these meetings in Cleveland and heard people supporting each other in bicycling more, walking more, losing the air-conditioning, cutting the heat back… and doing all this, and a lot more, in a variety of creative ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The campaign rolls on…\u00a0 In the last week we appeared in the Northwest Signal Daily News, which is circulated throughout Northwest Florida.\u00a0 I was asked about offshore drilling in a newspaper office not far from the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 I …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}