{"id":2137,"date":"2010-09-29T23:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T03:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2010-09-29T23:16:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T03:16:53","slug":"month-9-day-30-bella-bella-bella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-9-day-30-bella-bella-bella\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 9, Day 30: Bella, bella, bella!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/29\/science\/earth\/29fossil.html?hpw\">lovely article<\/a> on a little Italian town that&#8217;s moved to wind energy and done itself a huge favor in the process.  Go read the piece; it&#8217;s really inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>At least, it inspired this letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The citizens of Tocco De Casauria have chosen wisely in moving their community to renewable energy sources.  Perhaps a village that has existed for centuries is better-equipped to plan for an existence hundreds of years in the future.  It is a measure of how far the United States has to go in this area that the concept of &#8220;sustainability&#8221; is still considered the province of tie-dyed back-to-the-landers, rather than a simple piece of common sense.  <strong>Obviously<\/strong> we should be thinking in the long term rather than the short.  But, alas, America is the home of the shortest attention spans on the planet, and sustainability isn&#8217;t shiny enough to engage the interest of the country that invented &#8220;planned obsolescence.&#8221;  We need an energy economy that&#8217;s built to last&#8230;and we won&#8217;t find it in oil wells and coal mines.  Tocco&#8217;s turbines are a lesson to all of us: &#8220;planned obsolescence&#8221; is obsolete.  <\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times had a lovely article on a little Italian town that&#8217;s moved to wind energy and done itself a huge favor in the process. Go read the piece; it&#8217;s really inspiring. At least, it inspired this letter: The citizens of Tocco De Casauria have chosen wisely in moving their community to renewable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[655,488],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-italy","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}