{"id":6257,"date":"2015-02-27T06:55:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T06:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2015-02-27T06:55:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T06:55:01","slug":"why-is-bristol-europes-green-capital-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/02\/27\/why-is-bristol-europes-green-capital-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Bristol Europe's Green Capital for 2015?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol is Europe's Green Capital for 2015, but\u00a0you have to wonder how this came about as its sustainability\u00a0credentials seem pitifully few. \u00a0In the BBC's most recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b05375l3\">Costing the Earth<\/a>,\u00a0Tom Heap\u00a0explored these issues. \u00a0Clearly, the award was granted as much on future promise as past performance. \u00a0Perhaps that's as it should be. \u00a0It's a key reason why London\u00a0got the Olympics, for example.<\/p>\n<p>What those interviewed wanted from the 'green capital' experience, varied a lot, but <em>legacy<\/em> featured strongly. \u00a0There was a strong critique of\u00a0too much emphasis on arty-fatty\u00a0stuff (think blue plastic whales), and a persistent desire for an amelioration of some of Bristol's many problems. \u00a0Grid-locked traffic, and resultant poor air quality, were\u00a0mentioned a lot, and the programme ended by wondering whether fewer children and old folk would\u00a0die from the polluted air\u00a0by the end of the\u00a0Green Capital experience.<\/p>\n<p>School education got a small mention. \u00a0One school was (inevitably, perhaps) measuring local air pollution, and there will be an 'education programme' that will feature Shaun the Sheep. \u00a0Umm. \u00a0This is being piloted in Bristol and then it's going nation-wide next autumn. \u00a0Details were sparse, but it did not sound encouraging. \u00a0Let's hope it's more than another dust-gathering teacher pack. \u00a0Oddly, there was no mention of the great contribution that the two universities are making which is something I have mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/22\/green-capital-student-capital-unleashing-the-power-of-bristol-students-to-benefit-the-uk\/\">before<\/a>. \u00a0That, too, promised to go national.<\/p>\n<p>The programme confirmed that\u00a0it would return in 2016 to see what had happened. \u00a0That might be way too soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol is Europe's Green Capital for 2015, but\u00a0you have to wonder how this came about as its sustainability\u00a0credentials seem pitifully few. \u00a0In the BBC's most recent\u00a0Costing the Earth,\u00a0Tom Heap\u00a0explored these issues. \u00a0Clearly, the award was granted as much on future...<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","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\/6257","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=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}