{"id":610,"date":"2007-03-05T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=43"},"modified":"2007-03-05T20:28:37","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T20:28:37","slug":"3507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"3\/5\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Brunswick, Georgia, we researched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foresthostel.com\/\">Hostel in the Forest<\/a>. \u00a0 Tom Dennard gave us an extensive tour. \u00a0 He is the founder of the Hostel and \u00a0also teaches a Backpacking Class at Coastal Georgia Community College. \u00a0 The Hostel in the Forest is a series of small, geodesic dome huts and &#8220;tree-houses.&#8221; \u00a0 There is no heating or air conditioning. \u00a0 There are extensive gardening plots, \u00a0complete with \u00a0solar panels to help pump water to the gardens. \u00a0 The Hostel has recycling bins for clear glass, green glass, brown glass, paper, cardboard&#8230; and if it&#8217;s a material that can&#8217;t be cycled, it goes in: &#8220;The Can of Shame.&#8221; \u00a0 Dennard noted that the Hostel is big on &#8220;reduce, reuse and recycle,&#8221; with a strong emphasis on &#8220;reduce.&#8221; \u00a0 During the tour, Dennard noted that the area used to be somewhat swampy, but for the past five years there&#8217;s been a tremendous drought here and all of it is currently dry. \u00a0 &#8220;Global warming,&#8221; he lamented. \u00a0 The Hostel hosts regular environmental education workshops. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 It&#8217;s <em>so<\/em> crucial to have this environmental mindset from house to house in America these days in the face of climate change. \u00a0 We must become a Society of Conservers rather than a Society of Consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brunswick, Georgia, we researched the Hostel in the Forest. \u00a0 Tom Dennard gave us an extensive tour. \u00a0 He is the founder of the Hostel and \u00a0also teaches a Backpacking Class at Coastal Georgia Community College. \u00a0 The Hostel <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=610\"><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-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}