{"id":887,"date":"2009-03-03T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-03-03T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T00:03:09","slug":"3209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=887","title":{"rendered":"3\/2\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The March 2009 edition of <em>National Geographic<\/em> \u00a0 had a piece about saving energy in the face of advancing global warming. \u00a0 It was noted that Tim Flannery, author of <em>The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth<\/em>, notes that to stay below the threshold of critical global warming tipping points America alone must cut back it&#8217;s CO2 emissions by 80%. \u00a0 The following figures represent pounds of CO2 emitted per item per year in an average U.S. household: \u00a0 washer: 153; electric dryer: 1,521; television: 548; desk top PC: 321; dishwasher: 599; central air conditioner: 4,067&#8230; \u00a0 So how do we cut this by 80%? \u00a0 Simple. \u00a0 Sacrifice. \u00a0 Our family has. \u00a0 We don&#8217;t use air conditioning. \u00a0 We hang the clothes on a line outside or in the basement. \u00a0 We decided not to have a television. \u00a0 I use the computer at the library on average about a half an hour a day. \u00a0 We don&#8217;t have an electric dishwasher, we got kids&#8230; I&#8217;m tired of hearing how people are slowly easing into this conservation thing. \u00a0 The crisis is immediate! \u00a0 Our response should be immediate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The March 2009 edition of National Geographic \u00a0 had a piece about saving energy in the face of advancing global warming. \u00a0 It was noted that Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=887\"><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-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}