{"id":8762,"date":"2013-07-31T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8762"},"modified":"2013-07-31T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T23:00:30","slug":"climate-connections-power-shift-away-from-green-illusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/climate-connections-power-shift-away-from-green-illusions\/","title":{"rendered":"(Climate Connections) Power shift away from green illusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:\u00a0 <\/strong>Every day, the news about climate change and the harms that are sure to accompany it gets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/03\/08-0\">worse<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/03\/15-5\">worse<\/a>. To many environmentalists, the answer is simple: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearepowershift.org\/\">power shift<\/a>. That is, shift from fossil fuels to clean, green, renewable, alternative energy. Well-meaning concerned citizens and activists have jumped on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this simple solution: Things aren\u2019t as simple as they seem, and \u201cthere\u2019s actually no such thing as a free lunch\u201d when it comes to energy consumption and production. Further, what we\u2019re often sold as \u201cgreen\u201d and \u201cclean\u201d is actually neither&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image to read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climate-connections.org\/2013\/04\/08\/power-shift-away-from-green-illusions\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8763\" alt=\"2013_0408w_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_0408w_-270x300.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_0408w_-270x300.jpg 270w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_0408w_.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climate-connections.org\/2013\/04\/08\/power-shift-away-from-green-illusions\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/climate-connections.org\/2013\/04\/08\/power-shift-away-from-green-illusions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt:\u00a0 Every day, the news about climate change and the harms that are sure to accompany it gets\u00a0worse\u00a0and\u00a0worse. To many environmentalists, the answer is simple: power shift. That is, shift from fossil fuels to clean, green, renewable, alternative energy. Well-meaning concerned citizens and activists have jumped on the bandwagon. The problem with this simple [&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-8762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762","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=8762"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}