{"id":6389,"date":"2012-10-11T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T22:31:44","slug":"from-washngtonpost-al-gore-has-thrived-as-green-tech-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/from-washngtonpost-al-gore-has-thrived-as-green-tech-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"(from WashngtonPost)  &#8216;Al Gore has thrived as green-tech investor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<\/strong>\u00a0 Today, several of those clean tech firms are thriving, including a solar energy start-up and a Spanish utility company that has dotted rural America with hundreds of wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gore is thriving, too.\u00a0 The man who was within sight of the presidency 12 years ago has transformed himself, becoming perhaps the world\u2019s most renowned crusader on climate change and a highly successful green-tech investor.<\/p>\n<p>Just before leaving public office in 2001, Gore reported assets of less than $2 million; today, his wealth is estimated at $100 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE ARTICLE CLICK THE IMAGE&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/decision2012\/al-gore-has-thrived-as-green-tech-investor\/2012\/10\/10\/1dfaa5b0-0b11-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6390\" title=\"20832441_H744337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20832441_H744337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20832441_H744337.jpg 606w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20832441_H744337-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE CURRENT Z <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO REAL ALL ZBLOG POSTS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 Today, several of those clean tech firms are thriving, including a solar energy start-up and a Spanish utility company that has dotted rural America with hundreds of wind turbines. Al Gore is thriving, too.\u00a0 The man who was within sight of the presidency 12 years ago has transformed himself, becoming perhaps the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}