{"id":699,"date":"2009-10-11T06:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2009-10-11T06:26:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:26:28","slug":"tarzans-love-shack-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/tarzans-love-shack-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan&#8217;s love shack blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be green. Seriously, green. So I&#8217;m thinking about tearing down my house and slapping up a sustainable pod built entirely of 100% ecologically renewable pure-green bamboo. Imagine the beautiful smell wafting through my house, reminding me (and my neighbors) of the sweet tropical Chinese bamboo jungles. <\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s the LEED certificate to point at when the party gets cranked, the organic wine flows, and the solar grill sizzles the GMO-free tofu to perfection. <\/p>\n<p>Calling Al Gore! <\/p>\n<p>Of course, before taking the plunge, it&#8217;s de rigueur to wander over yonder to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/\">TreeHugger.com<\/a> for a quick review of the sustainability index of my dream house. At this point, I&#8217;m having a distinct vision of that magnificent tree house inhabited by Johnny Weissmuller in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0039011\/\">Tarzan and the Leopard Woman.<\/a> Vine not included. <\/p>\n<p>Damn &#8211; another dose of freaking reality! As is so often true when dealing with abstractions, the lure of bamboo can quickly morph into a Big Bamboozle in less time that it takes to say &#8220;renewably sustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For example, TreeHugger reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2005\/09\/bamboo_flooring.php\">&#8220;&#8230;. It is true that [bamboo] naturally regenerates, but forests are being cleared to grow it and it is becoming a monoculture. Although it is claimed that fertilizers are not necessary, in fact they are being used to increase yield.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huh? \u201cNatural forests in the vicinity of bamboo plantations have sometimes given way to bamboo as a result of deliberate efforts to replace them or because of the vigorous natural expansion of bamboo in logged over forests. This process has also had a negative impact on biodiversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There goes my dream love shack. <\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.residesi.com\/2009\/01\/tarzans-original-cheetah.html\">Cheeta when you need him?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be green. Seriously, green. So I&#8217;m thinking about tearing down my house and slapping up a sustainable pod built entirely of 100% ecologically renewable pure-green bamboo. Imagine the beautiful smell wafting through my house, reminding me (and my neighbors) of the sweet tropical Chinese bamboo jungles. And there&#8217;s the LEED certificate to [&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-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}