{"id":1642,"date":"2017-08-03T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2017-08-04T18:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T18:03:57","slug":"green-energy-downtown-revitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"green energy; downtown revitalization…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the month of July…\u00a0 I wrote a good number of freelance articles for the Bluffton News<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Each, for the most part, tied into various parts of my campaign’s platform.\u00a0 For instance, I did a story on residential solar panel\u00a0 installations, focusing on how cost effective they are in the long run.\u00a0 Our “energy stance”<\/a> is that global warming is, indeed, an evolving threat and we need to move to a lot more green energy, energy conservation, and such, in becoming better environmental stewards — so our kids aren’t inheriting a world of climate chaos.\u00a0 I once told the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette<\/em> newspaper in Ohio that Liz and I are running as: concerned parents…\u00a0 Another thing we’re ‘concerned’ about is continually evolving “centralism” (move toward more and more big box stores on the periphery), while small town business districts are dying, in droves.\u00a0 For this article, I interviewed Bluffton University Economics Professor Jonathan Andreas.\u00a0 [Bluffton (pop. 3,875) has been able to maintain a vibrant downtown business district because it’s just far enough away from the the Wal-Marts, Targets, Lowes…\u00a0 What’s more, there’s an informed consumer base here who understand the importance of buying local and keeping these small Mom & Pop stores going.]\u00a0 Professor Andreas said it’s not just about getting stuff, but rather it’s also where community members regularly meet to share the ‘stuff’ of life.\u00a0 In that, community camaraderie and solidity increases exponentially.\u00a0 Our economic platform<\/a> includes a series of strategies to super-charge small-town, downtown revitalization.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Staying with “green energy”…\u00a0 Our son Jonathan played a soccer game in the small town of Pettisville, Ohio last month.\u00a0 While there, I learned the high school had put in a two and a half million dollar wind turbine and a retaining pond for their geothermal piping through the school’s floors.\u00a0 Even the 20 MPH school zone signs had solar panels on the tops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the month of July…\u00a0 I wrote a good number of freelance articles for the Bluffton News.\u00a0 Each, for the most part, tied into various parts of my campaign’s platform.\u00a0 For instance, I did a story on residential …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","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=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}