{"id":631,"date":"2007-04-23T14:33:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-04-23T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:33:28","slug":"42307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"4\/23\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

We road our bicycles to “Earthfest” (2007 Climate Change Solutions)<\/strong> at the Cleveland Zoo yesterday. \u00a0 It is billed as “Ohio’s largest environmental education event.” \u00a0 Before the Welcoming Cermenonies, I talked with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. \u00a0 During the ceremony, Mr. Jackson said that global warming is forcing us to “change the way we do business” on a govermental level. \u00a0 And one of the things Cleveland has recently done is hire a full-time “Sustainability Coordinator.” \u00a0 This coordinator, Andrew Watterson, exhorted people to do things like bicycle, car pool \u00a0or take the bus to work at least one day a week. \u00a0 This will cut \u00a0someone’s carbon dioxide emissions by about 20% a week, he said. \u00a0 Mr. Watterson also said Cleveland is aiming at a 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2050… During the ceremony, our Sarah received a award for an essay<\/a> she wrote about helping reverse climate change. \u00a0 Megan, a ninth \u00a0grader \u00a0from Midpark HS, also won an award for a poem she wrote on climate change. \u00a0 \u00a0An excerpt \u00a0reads: \u00a0 “A single tear falls… from the withered sky… And no one stops to realize… Our Mother Earth cries… As she’s ripped apart… And the sun beats down… On her half melted heart… \u00a0 Would you poison your child?…” \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0The irony is we are, indeed, poisoning our children. \u00a0 Our lifestyle choices are poisoning the environment (air born carcinogens, acid rain, greenhouse gases…). \u00a0 And in turn, these all will having significant ‘poisoning’ effects on our children. \u00a0 What kind of parents have we become? Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 I will be interviewed on: http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/politicsone<\/a> tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7 pm EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We road our bicycles to “Earthfest” (2007 Climate Change Solutions) at the Cleveland Zoo yesterday. \u00a0 It is billed as “Ohio’s largest environmental education event.” \u00a0 Before the Welcoming Cermenonies, I talked with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. \u00a0 During the …<\/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-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}