{"id":2477,"date":"2021-03-18T14:18:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:18:40","slug":"growing-green-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;growing &#8220;green concrete&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grass.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grass-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grass-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grass-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grass-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grass-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/grass.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just wrote a newspaper column titled: <strong>&#8230;growing &#8220;green concrete.&#8221;<\/strong>  During a stop in Oklahoma City a number of years ago, I met with a man who had turned his quarter-acre lawn in that city into a &#8220;permaculture,&#8221; with numerous vegetable plants, berry bushes, fruit trees&#8230;  Robert Waldrop said that all growing green grass was good for is &#8220;raising sheep&#8221; (unless, of course, you have younger kids who need to play in at least <em>part<\/em> of the yard).  On the front end, Americans waste some $40 billion a year keeping their yards green (toxic fertilizers, weed killers&#8230;).  Money that could be spent on developing country sustainable agriculture projects.  What&#8217;s more, if we grew a lot more of our own food at our own homes, this, too, would be substantial savings &#8212; that could also go toward all sorts of ending world hunger projects.  There, indeed, would be enough food to feed the world, if we in the First World realigned our lifestyles to do just that.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  At the end of time, we&#8217;ll ask:  &#8220;But Lord, when did we see you hungry?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a newspaper column titled: &#8230;growing &#8220;green concrete.&#8221; During a stop in Oklahoma City a number of years ago, I met with a man who had turned his quarter-acre lawn in that city into a &#8220;permaculture,&#8221; with numerous <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2477\"><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-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}