{"id":1067,"date":"2011-11-19T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2011-11-19T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:09:10","slug":"the-isle-of-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/11\/19\/the-isle-of-green\/","title":{"rendered":"The Isle of ... Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/babbage\/2011\/11\/environmental-sustainability\">Economist<\/a> carries a short piece this week on well-connected efforts to make the Isle of Wight self-sufficient in just about everything: the <em>Isle of Green<\/em>.\u00a0 However, as an irregular traveller on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfunnel.co.uk\/ferry-travel\/red-jet-service\/\">Red Jet<\/a> service from Southampton to Cowes, I reckon the Island is missing a trick or two.<\/p>\n<p>As Red Jet has no toilets on board its hovercrafts, <em>the Ecoisland partnership<\/em> might find ways of incentivising passengers to wait until they reach Cowes before relieving themselves, instead of doing it on the mainland.\u00a0 With much needed extra water from the pee, and fertilizer from the poo, the Island could be quids in \u2013 though\u00a0RedJet might need more emergency mops and buckets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist carries a short piece this week on well-connected efforts to make the Isle of Wight self-sufficient in just about everything: the Isle of Green.\u00a0 However, as an irregular traveller on the Red Jet service from Southampton to Cowes,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}