{"id":2044,"date":"2020-01-22T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:25:16","slug":"1-trillion-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"1 trillion trees&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tree-City-USA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tree-City-USA.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tree-City-USA-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A just published report by Swiss scientists says that planting &#8220;1 trillion trees&#8221; worldwide could significantly impact climate change.  And we could let Ada, Ohio, take the lead.  I was covering a village council meeting there last night. It was noted that the village had a quite active Tree Commission, has been a Tree City USA town for 40 years, and Ohio Northern University there was designated the first &#8220;Tree Campus&#8221; in Ohio years back.  And there was talk at the meeting about ramping all this up more.  A &#8216;treemendous&#8217; idea:  Our administration would back such initiatives with matching federal grants.  [To be a Tree City USA town, for instance, 2% of the town budget must go to the planting and upkeep of trees.  The federal government, under our administration, would match the 2%.]  For more on our stance on this, and other environmental issues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/environment-ckji\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A just published report by Swiss scientists says that planting &#8220;1 trillion trees&#8221; worldwide could significantly impact climate change. And we could let Ada, Ohio, take the lead. I was covering a village council meeting there last night. It was <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2044\"><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-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","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=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}