{"id":13943,"date":"2014-03-14T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13943"},"modified":"2014-04-14T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T09:56:15","slug":"how-to-make-our-cities-much-more-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13943","title":{"rendered":"How to make our cities much more sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About half of the world&#8217;s population of 7 billion now lives in cities and the proportion is expected to be 70% by 2050, but currently urban living uses too much of the globe&#8217;s scarce resources.<\/p>\n<p>There is great new location in London called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrystal.org\">The Crystal<\/a> which claims to be one of the world&#8217;s most sustainable buildings and it houses a terrific (free) interactive exhibition which demonstrates how we can all live more much sustainably using less energy and water and reducing pollution and congestion.<\/p>\n<p>I visited it this week and arrived their via the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emiratesairline.co.uk\">Emirates Airline cable car <\/a>which provides aerial views of the O2 and the Thames Flood Barrier.<\/p>\n<p>On my web site, you will find advice on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/water.html\">How To Save Water<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/energy.html\">How To Save Energy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/world.html\">How To Save The World<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half of the world&#8217;s population of 7 billion now lives in cities and the proportion is expected to be 70% by 2050, but currently urban living uses too much of the globe&#8217;s scarce resources. There is great new location in London called The Crystal which claims to be one of the world&#8217;s most sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13943"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14308,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions\/14308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}