{"id":49289,"date":"2019-10-30T15:11:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49289"},"modified":"2019-10-30T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:11:58","slug":"thinking-outside-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49289","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Outside the Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.damariszehner.com\/post\/thinking-outside-the-grid\">Thinking Outside the Grid<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Gorelick comments:  &#8220;About 10 years ago I wrote something for our local food coop\u2019s newsletter, and it touches on our home energy use. Even though IBM is no longer running \u201csmarter planet\u201d ads and LED lights have superceded CFLs, everything else in it still feels current.&#8221;  Yes, this subject is very current, especially to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-environment\/2019\/10\/16\/20910947\/climate-change-wildfires-california-2019-blackouts\"><em>Californians<\/em><\/a><em>, who are now facing a future of  frequent electrical blackouts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty years ago, a friend of mine published a book called <em>50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save The Earth<\/em>. It described the huge environmental benefits that would result if everyone made some simple adjustments to their way of life. Six hundred thousand gallons of gas could be saved every day, for example, if every commuter car carried just one more passenger; over 500,000 trees could be saved weekly if we all recycled our Sunday newspaper; and so forth. The book was immensely popular at the time, at least partly because it was comforting to know we could \u201csave the Earth\u201d so easily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ce869fe69ee06f7fb7804558876455dd.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_490,h_308,al_c,lg_1,q_90\/ce869fe69ee06f7fb7804558876455dd.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just recycle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, the projected benefits of these simple steps were actually insignificant compared to the scale of the problems they addressed. Saving 600,000 gallons of gasoline sounds impressive, but it\u2019s only about 1\/1,000 of daily fuel consumption in this country. Half a million trees every week sounds like a lot too, but the sad fact is that about 1.5 acres of forest are being lost every <em>second<\/em>, despite all the Sunday papers that are now routinely recycled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>50 Simple Things<\/em> is no longer in vogue (you can buy a copy online for 1 cent), but its core assumption \u2013 that our most urgent crises can be solved by tinkering around the edges of modern life \u2013 is as popular as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking Outside the Grid Gorelick comments: &#8220;About 10 years ago I wrote something for our local food coop\u2019s newsletter, and it touches on our home energy use. Even though IBM is no longer running \u201csmarter planet\u201d ads and LED lights have superceded CFLs, everything else in it still feels current.&#8221; Yes, this subject is very [&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":[3],"tags":[27470,27469,1574,13365],"class_list":["post-49289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-integrity-of-life","tag-local-power","tag-power-grid","tag-steven-gorelick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289","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=49289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49290,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289\/revisions\/49290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}