{"id":199,"date":"2007-02-06T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T10:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:31","slug":"why-cant-we-be-more-like-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why can&#8217;t we be more like Edmonton?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/Edmonton.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"581\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Edmonton\" title=\"Edmonton\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAside from being a fine place to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movetoedmonton.com\/\">live<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmonton.ca\/portal\/server.pt?open=space&amp;name=CommunityPage&amp;id=cached&amp;psname=CommunityPage&amp;psid=1&amp;in_hi_userid=2&amp;cached=true&amp;control=SetCommunity&amp;CommunityID=217&amp;PageID=0\">visit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmonton.ca\">Edmonton<\/a> leads Canada in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmonton.ca\/portal\/server.pt\/gateway\/PTARGS_0_0_271_213_0_43\/http%3B\/CMSServer\/COEWeb\/environment+waste+and+recycling\/recycling\/\">recycling and composting<\/a>, keeping a remarkable 60% of its waste out of the landfill system.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/thesundayedition\/media\/edmonton_se070204.ram\">Listen to this panel discussion<\/a> from CBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/thesundayedition\/index.html\">The Sunday Edition<\/a> (entitled &#8220;Why Can&#8217;t We be More Like Edmonton?&#8221;) on how other cities in North America might work to achieve similar targets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNot a week goes by where I don&#8217;t wish that Chittenden county had a waste management\/recycling program half as good as Edmonton&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from being a fine place to live and visit, Edmonton leads Canada in recycling and composting, keeping a remarkable 60% of its waste out of the landfill system. Listen to this panel discussion from CBC&#8217;s The Sunday Edition (entitled &#8220;Why Can&#8217;t We be More Like Edmonton?&#8221;) on how other cities in North America might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}