{"id":525485,"date":"2010-04-12T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/12\/video-canadian-environmental-group-psa-urges-you-to-relieve-you\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:30:00","slug":"video-canadian-environmental-group-psa-urges-you-to-relieve-your-car-from-idling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525485","title":{"rendered":"Video: Canadian environmental group PSA urges you to relieve your car from idling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/marketing-advertising\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marketing\/Advertising<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/canada\/\" rel=\"tag\">Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/12\/video-canadian-environmental-group-psa-urges-you-to-relieve-you\/#continued\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/green-calgary-630.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Green Calgary takes on unneccsary idling &#8211; Click above to watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/12\/video-canadian-environmental-group-psa-urges-you-to-relieve-you\/#continued\">after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nFlannel, Mounties, hockey, public urination &#8211; all these things that come to mind when we think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/07\/report-canada-reveals-first-ever-vehicle-emissions-standards-th\/\">Canada<\/a>. Okay, maybe not all of them. But the latter comes courtesy of a new spot developed by Joe Media Group for Green Calgary. The ad urges the city&#8217;s drivers to stop all unnecessary idling as it&#8217;s not doing the planet any favors. How do you turn that into a striking visual? By comparing it to taking a leak on Mother Earth.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve never exactly drawn a link between relieving ourselves and sitting in traffic, but hey, we aren&#8217;t exactly ad execs, either. One thing&#8217;s for sure &#8211; we won&#8217;t be able to look at our neighbors to the north in quite the same way ever again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/12\/video-canadian-environmental-group-psa-urges-you-to-relieve-you\/#continued\">Hit the jump<\/a> to see the spot for yourself. <\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarconnection.com\/marty-blog\/1044044_video-canadian-anti-idling-campaign-is-unacceptable-geddy-lee-possibly-to-blame\">The Car Connection<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6QPnS9Uhx8I&amp;feature=player_embedded\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/12\/video-canadian-environmental-group-psa-urges-you-to-relieve-you\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Video: Canadian environmental group PSA urges you to relieve your car from idling<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/12\/video-canadian-environmental-group-psa-urges-you-to-relieve-you\/\">Video: Canadian environmental group PSA urges you to relieve your car from idling<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:30:00 EST.  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Okay, maybe not all of them. But the latter comes courtesy of a new spot developed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525485","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\/6487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}