{"id":460,"date":"2014-10-22T21:34:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=460"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:34:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:34:45","slug":"sustainia-wants-us-to-start-acting-today-not-tomorrow-ensia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Sustainia wants us to start acting today, not tomorrow | Ensia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ensia.com\/photos\/sustainia\/\">Sustainia wants us to start acting today, not tomorrow | Ensia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #55544f; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><span class=\"postDate\" style=\"font-style: italic; float: left; margin: 0px 3px 0px 0px;\">October 22, 2014 \u2014<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px;\">Earlier this year,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; color: #1f589a;\" href=\"http:\/\/ensia.com\/features\/can-todays-technology-save-us\/\">we asked<\/a>\u00a0if we might already have what we need to solve our greatest environmental challenges. Stop looking for the next big thing, we wrote, and start doing the last big thing better. Maybe, if scaled up appropriately or invested in properly, the solutions are already there for us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px;\">A similar edict seems to be at the heart of global think tank\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; color: #1f589a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainia.me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainia<\/a>, which tries to look at \u201cwhat we\u2019re working for, not just against,\u201d as Greenbiz wrote in 2013. With the publication of Sustainia100, a guide to innovative and readily available sustainability solutions from around the world, the nonprofit goes beyond attempting to inspire investors, business leaders, consumers and policy makers to choose a sustainable future \u2014 it puts the options for doing so right in front of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 0px;\">\u201cThe solutions are exciting because they give us tangible ways to start acting. Not tomorrow or when heads of states can agree on binding treaties \u2014 but today,\u201d says Sustainia director Laura Storm.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainia wants us to start acting today, not tomorrow | Ensia. October 22, 2014 \u2014 Earlier this year,\u00a0we asked\u00a0if we might already have what we need to solve our greatest environmental challenges. Stop looking for the next big thing, we wrote, and start doing the last big thing better. Maybe, if scaled up appropriately or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[640,769,770],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-post-carbon-world","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}