{"id":244810,"date":"2010-01-29T01:17:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/punggol-to-serve-as-a-living-laboratory-for-green-technologies-in-singapore\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T01:17:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T06:17:27","slug":"punggol-to-serve-as-a-%e2%80%98living-laboratory%e2%80%99-for-green-technologies-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244810","title":{"rendered":"Punggol to serve as a \u2018living laboratory\u2019 for green technologies in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/29\/punggol-eco-town_1_FDeMR_69.jpg\" alt=\"punggol eco town_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Punggol to be converted into a renewable energy powered eco-town.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s Housing and Development Board have planned to develop Punggol as the first eco-town to help it achieve its goal to grow in a green way. Punggol will serve as a testbed for new ideas and green technologies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/29\/punggol-eco-town_2_aaZkS_69.jpg\" alt=\"punggol eco town_2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Promoting the concept of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ura.gov.sg\">Green Living by the Waters<\/a>\u201d in Punggol, renewable energy in the form of sun and the wind will be harvested to provide electricity. Moreover, rainwater will be tapped to reduce freshwater demands. Cycling paths and charging stations at car parks will be built to aid the growth of an electric car network. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/29\/punggol-eco-town_3_XKIMo_69.jpg\" alt=\"punggol eco town_3\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/29\/punggol-eco-town_4_8RPoc_69.jpg\" alt=\"punggol eco town_4\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/business.asiaone.com\/Business\/My%2BMoney\/Property\/Story\/A1Story20100128-195129.html\">Asiaone Business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Punggol to be converted into a renewable energy powered eco-town. Singapore\u2019s Housing and Development Board have planned to develop Punggol as the first eco-town to help it achieve its goal to grow in a green way. Punggol will serve as a testbed for new ideas and green technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}