{"id":542083,"date":"2010-04-23T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-23-ted-talk-on-building-a-greener-house\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T16:23:08","slug":"ted-talk-on-building-a-greener-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542083","title":{"rendered":"TED talk on building a greener house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Jonathan Hiskes <\/p>\n<p>Robotics engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/catherine_mohr.html\">Catherine Mohr<\/a> is<br \/>\ntired of enviros &#8220;long on moral authority and short on data.&#8221; She&#8217;s got a smart<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/catherine_mohr_builds_green.html\">TED talk<br \/>\nclip<\/a> about the greenest options for (a) wiping up a yogurt spill and (b) building<br \/>\na house. The point in each case is that the best option is often not what you&#8217;d<br \/>\nexpect.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>She sorta takes the<br \/>\nannoying and all too common tone of &#8220;everything you&#8217;ve been trying to do out of<br \/>\ngood faith is wrong and stupid,&#8221; which isn&#8217;t motivating. But she brings the<br \/>\ndata and presents it clearly, and that&#8217;s worth a shout-out:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-23-astute-climate-bill-analysis-from-dj-biz-markie\/\">Astute climate bill analysis from DJ Biz Markie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-save-bette-midler-er-mother-nature-video\/\">Save Bette Midler, er, Mother Nature! [VIDEO]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/how-dirty-are-we-willing-to-get\/\">How Dirty Are We Willing to Get?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=92bc89d0fd00c653fa745b278ef457d5&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=92bc89d0fd00c653fa745b278ef457d5&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=24595&#038;t=2\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jonathan Hiskes Robotics engineer Catherine Mohr is tired of enviros &#8220;long on moral authority and short on data.&#8221; She&#8217;s got a smart TED talk clip about the greenest options for (a) wiping up a yogurt spill and (b) building a house. The point in each case is that the best option is often not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542083","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\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}