{"id":1381,"date":"2007-06-17T00:59:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T22:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2007-06-17T00:59:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T22:59:39","slug":"greener-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/greener-in-texas.html","title":{"rendered":"Greener In Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006899.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/postimages\/toparticle\/6899_toparticlephoto.jpg\" alt=\"Article Photo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> by Worldchanging Austin local blogger, Luke Iseman: There\u2019s a saying: \u201ceverything\u2019s bigger in Texas.\u201d Usually applied to SUVs, exurb-dwelling women\u2019s hair, and tex-mex dishes, it\u2019s starting to look like a lot of the biggest initiatives to green a metropolis are being born in Austin, Texas. Will Wynn is not just Austin\u2019s mayor with a politically auspicious name: he\u2019s also Al Gore with a Texas twang. A Worldchanger much more literate than I has already provided an excellent summary of Wynn\u2019s speaking points , to which I have nothing substantive to add. The truly curious can also read the full current version of the Austin Climate Protection Plan . A short list of not-so-little ways in which Austin, the capital of the most polluting state in the most polluting country in the world, is giving most other locales a run for their money at the slowly starting race to think big about being green: 1. Transportation Is Becoming Less InsaneYes, our highways are still as clogged as last time you visited. However, the vehicle in front of you seems increasingly likely to be practical in size, maybe even a scooter, perhaps even an electric one . If you&rsquo;re really lucky&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006899.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>WorldChanging Team<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=47&amp;search=Go\">Urban Design and Planning<\/a><\/i> at  1:37 PM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/125422891\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Worldchanging Austin local blogger, Luke Iseman: There\u2019s a saying: \u201ceverything\u2019s bigger in Texas.\u201d Usually applied to SUVs, exurb-dwelling women\u2019s hair, and tex-mex dishes, it\u2019s starting to look like a lot of the biggest initiatives to green a metropolis are being born in Austin, Texas. Will Wynn is not just Austin\u2019s mayor with a politically [&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-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}