{"id":545111,"date":"2010-04-27T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2010-04-27T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:30:18","slug":"highlights-from-top-blogs-and-news-stories-in-the-last-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545111","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from top blogs and news stories in the last few days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Wonk Room<\/em> draws attention to a <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.climatestrategies.us\/ewebeditpro\/items\/O25F23069.PDF\">new report<\/a> that shows how <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/04\/26\/climate-strategies-jobs\/\">climate legislation will boost the economy<\/a>. \u201cThis CCS analysis finds that instead of slowing the economy,\u00a0<strong>household wealth and jobs will grow faster<\/strong> in a green economy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marc Gunther<\/em> explores the potential of the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.marcgunther.com\/2010\/04\/25\/wind-power-gets-high\/\">growing wind power industry<\/a> and how innovative companies are working to \u201ccapture high-altitude wind energy and turn it into electricity for off-the-grid users. Potential customers include the U.S. military, chic eco-resorts in remote locations and poor people in the global south in desperate need of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> has <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/26\/AR2010042603702.html\">an editorial<\/a> stressing the importance of keeping the climate bill on the Senate agenda this year. The editorial board reminds us that \u201cevery year Congress waits to legislate, adequately curbing emissions will get harder and more expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=O5imErmGUaw:KqG5ktIF4iU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=O5imErmGUaw:KqG5ktIF4iU:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=O5imErmGUaw:KqG5ktIF4iU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=O5imErmGUaw:KqG5ktIF4iU:u0Zhe-nyOHo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=u0Zhe-nyOHo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=O5imErmGUaw:KqG5ktIF4iU:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/environmentaldefense\/~4\/O5imErmGUaw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wonk Room draws attention to a new report that shows how climate legislation will boost the economy. \u201cThis CCS analysis finds that instead of slowing the economy,\u00a0household wealth and jobs will grow faster in a green economy. Marc Gunther explores the potential of the growing wind power industry and how innovative companies are working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545111","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\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}