{"id":576861,"date":"2010-05-24T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/albuquerque-gives-new-mexico-its-first-solar-powered-farmers-market\/"},"modified":"2010-05-24T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:33:04","slug":"albuquerque-gives-new-mexico-its-first-solar-powered-farmers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576861","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque gives New Mexico its first solar-powered farmer&#8217;s market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/24\/street-farmers-market_Je2ia_24429.jpg\" alt=\"street farmers market\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> New farmer&#8217;s market will look at mobile solar power unit for power.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to power farmer&#8217;s market with clean energy and spread environmental awareness amongst the visitors, <a href=\"http:\/\/downtownabq.com\/\">Albuquerque<\/a>, New Mexico&#8217;s Downtown Action Team has given birth to what it claims will be the first solar-powered farmer&#8217;s market in the country. The non-profit dedicated to renovating the city&#8217;s downtown was struck with an idea to check if it was possible to power their farmer&#8217;s market for its entire season using solar energy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After analysis all the possible details, Albuquerque worked in collaboration with with <a href=\"http:\/\/cleanswitch.com\/\">CleanSwitch<\/a>, a solar energy system design and installation company, and the University of New Mexico&#8217;s Sustainability Studies program to achieve its goal. &#8220;From Seed to Sale, Powered by the Sun,&#8221; as the project is called, largely depends on the Solar Roller, a mobile solar power unit for its success. The Albuquerque Downtown Growers&#8217; Market will certainly end up inspiring the end consumers to switch over to renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/05\/new-mexico-farmers-market-goes-entirely-solar.php\">Treehugger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: New farmer&#8217;s market will look at mobile solar power unit for power. In an attempt to power farmer&#8217;s market with clean energy and spread environmental awareness amongst the visitors, Albuquerque, New Mexico&#8217;s Downtown Action Team has given birth to what it claims will be the first solar-powered farmer&#8217;s market in the country. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576861","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}