{"id":876,"date":"2009-01-26T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-01-26T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:09:22","slug":"12609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"1\/26\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the St. Ignatius High School campus this morning and talked with youth minister Augi Pacetti. \u00a0 He said this week that some of the students were doing <em><strong>&#8220;The Great Garbage Challenge.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 For five days, students will carry around a plastic bag (<em>everywhere<\/em>) \u00a0that they fill up with the garbage they generate. \u00a0 This is to make \u00a0one&#8217;s waste visible and bring it to the forefront of one&#8217;s consciousness, Mr. Pacetti explained. \u00a0 It should be eye opening for most of the students&#8230; \u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t help but think how helpful it would be for many of us to be able to <em>also<\/em> \u00a0 carry around a &#8216;bag&#8217; for five days of all the carbon dioxide each of us emits from our vehicles, our home heating, our consumer purchases (it takes the burning of fossil fuels to produce most items). \u00a0 <strong>Note<\/strong>: \u00a0 The Obama Administration is moving swiftly on applications by California and 13 other states for much stricter automobile emissions and fuel efficiency, the <em>New York Times<\/em> \u00a0 reported today. \u00a0 While this is, indeed, a step in the right direction, our \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/essays\/global_essay.html\">environmental policy \u00a0on global warming<\/a> would be \u00a0much more \u00a0agressive than \u00a0the Obama Administration&#8217;s, across the board. \u00a0 \u00a0Much of the \u00a0global warming data now indicates that these gradual, incremental shifts in policy &#8212; \u00a0&#8220;&#8230;is like re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic,&#8221; I just told the <em>Ashtabula Star Beacon<\/em> newspaper. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the St. Ignatius High School campus this morning and talked with youth minister Augi Pacetti. \u00a0 He said this week that some of the students were doing &#8220;The Great Garbage Challenge.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 For five days, students <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=876\"><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-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}