{"id":650172,"date":"2010-02-01T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/blog\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:30:49","slug":"question-of-the-week-do-you-think-your-carbon-footprint-is-smaller-than-your-parents%e2%80%99-or-grandparents%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/650172","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Do You Think Your Carbon Footprint Is Smaller Than Your Parents\u2019 or Grandparents\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/blog\/category\/question-of-the-week\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 3px 0px 5px 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.epa.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/qotw_circle.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> Things are much more energy efficient than they used to be, from our vehicles to our light bulbs, and most of us practice the three R&#8217;s of Reducing, Recycling and Reusing.\u00a0 But now we have so much more&#8230;more vehicles, more technology, more everything&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 At first thought this may seem like a pretty easy question, but think about it for a minute, and then share your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think your <a href=\"http:\/\/epa.gov\/climatechange\/emissions\/ind_calculator.html\">carbon footprint<\/a> is smaller than your parents&#8217; or grandparents&#8217;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Each week we ask a question related to the environment. Please let us know your thoughts as comments.  Feel free to respond to earlier comments or post new ideas. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.epa.gov\/blog\/category\/question-of-the-week\/\">Previous questions.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are much more energy efficient than they used to be, from our vehicles to our light bulbs, and most of us practice the three R&#8217;s of Reducing, Recycling and Reusing.\u00a0 But now we have so much more&#8230;more vehicles, more technology, more everything&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 At first thought this may seem like a pretty easy question, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2J8E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}