{"id":1938,"date":"2019-04-23T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2019-04-23T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T21:16:19","slug":"when-one-butterfly-flaps-its-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"When one butterfly flaps its wings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"431\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sustainability.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sustainability.jpg 724w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sustainability-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sustainability-500x298.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Earth Day, I wrote a newspaper article about Bluffton University&#8217;s Sustainability Club.  The students got a campus restaurant to ban non-biodegradable plastic straws, they are lobbying for food composting at the cafeteria, they are proposing an &#8220;Energy Savings Challenge&#8221; between dormitories&#8230;  I ended the article by posing:  Can one small university in Northwest Ohio save the entire planet?  A proverb:  A lone butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world can set in motion a chain of events that can, ultimately, cause hurricane force winds in another part of the planet.  For more on our platform on the environment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/environment-ckji\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Earth Day, I wrote a newspaper article about Bluffton University&#8217;s Sustainability Club. The students got a campus restaurant to ban non-biodegradable plastic straws, they are lobbying for food composting at the cafeteria, they are proposing an &#8220;Energy Savings Challenge&#8221; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1938\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","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=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}