{"id":1105,"date":"2008-04-24T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/belated-earth-day\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T13:45:40","slug":"belated-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/belated-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blast and damn.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a couple of things I wanted to mention on Earth Day and didn’t get a chance to do so.\u00c2\u00a0 Must be the viral invader in my system messing with my synapses.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, first a good article about how the biggest question we all face when thinking about doing something about climate change is “Why Bother?<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a good piece, and makes a fairly strong case that if we each do something, everybody bothers to do one little thing, then we create a sort of social pressure to do more, like a positive feedback loop.\u00c2\u00a0 Individual efforts\u00c2\u00a0hardly matter at all to the environment directly, but maybe our example to others will help start a wave of change that will actually make a difference.\u00c2\u00a0 His favourite personal act seems to be starting a vegetable garden in your yard.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway it’s a good read, check it out.<\/p>\n

Then we have a feel-good commercial for the Discovery Channel, I Love the Whole World<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Catchy and fun.<\/p>\n

Happy Belated Earth Day folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blast and damn.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a couple of things I wanted to mention on Earth Day and didn’t get a chance to do so.\u00c2\u00a0 Must be the viral invader in my system messing with my synapses.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, first a good … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","category-video-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-hP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}