{"id":798,"date":"2008-03-31T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-03-31T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:50:12","slug":"33108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"3\/31\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland <em>Plain Dealer<\/em> ran a story yesterday about a home in Shaker Heights which is being considered one of the &#8220;greenest new houses in the nation.&#8221; \u00a0 The home features a cistern for rainwater collection, windows to maximize \u00a0solar input \u00a0and breeze flow, ultra-low flow shower heads, geothermal tubing for heating and cooling&#8230; While doing research in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I interviewed a man who had put in similar geothermal tubing. \u00a0 His highest winter month heating bill the year before had been an amazing: $17. \u00a0 In Manchester, Michigan, we talked with a college instructor who&#8217;s class designed an award winning &#8220;Zero Energy Home&#8221; using a series of \u00a0active and passive solar strategies&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0During a campaign swing through Colorado, I \u00a0told the <em>Valley Courier<\/em> newspaper in that our administration would offer creative tax breaks and other incentives to inspire as much &#8216;greening&#8217; of American homes as possible. \u00a0 For more on this and other parts of our Energy Policy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_energy.html\">see&#8230;<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a story yesterday about a home in Shaker Heights which is being considered one of the &#8220;greenest new houses in the nation.&#8221; \u00a0 The home features a cistern for rainwater collection, windows to maximize \u00a0solar <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=798\"><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-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}