{"id":1249,"date":"2007-06-08T21:54:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2007-06-08T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T19:54:29","slug":"ecotality-thomas-edison-the-unlikely-green-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/ecotality-thomas-edison-the-unlikely-green-pioneer.html","title":{"rendered":"Ecotality: Thomas Edison: The Unlikely Green Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenoptions.com\/files\/images\/edison_0.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"190\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#039;s note: This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotality.com\/blog\/\">Ecotality<\/a> blogger Steve Caratzas takes a look at a recent New York Times article that outlines Thomas Edison&#039;s green thinking.  This post was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotality.com\/blog\/2007\/thomas-edison-the-unlikely-green-pioneer\/\">originallly published<\/a> on June 3, 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/03\/magazine\/03wwln-essay-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine&amp;oref=slogin\">a terrific article about Thomas Edison<\/a>, and his unparalleled impact on our daily lives, as well as our current (you should pardon the pun) environmental situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No individual deserves more credit, or blame, for America\u2019s voracious electricity consumption than Edison, who conceived not only that generating station but also the notoriously inefficient incandescent bulb and a slew of volt-thirsty devices.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Edison was also a green visionary of sorts, whose ideas about sustainable energy encompassed windmills and an energy-self-sufficient home.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/green-options-blog?a=DG8m12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/green-options-blog?i=DG8m12\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?a=ZXTKt6PY\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?i=ZXTKt6PY\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?a=Iiw67ArO\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/green-options-blog?i=Iiw67ArO\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/green-options-blog\/~4\/123257020\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#039;s note: This week, Ecotality blogger Steve Caratzas takes a look at a recent New York Times article that outlines Thomas Edison&#039;s green thinking. This post was originallly published on June 3, 2007. The New York Times has a terrific article about Thomas Edison, and his unparalleled impact on our daily lives, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}