{"id":6320,"date":"2015-05-14T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T07:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2015-05-14T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T07:52:11","slug":"costing-the-earth-whilst-wasting-an-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/05\/14\/costing-the-earth-whilst-wasting-an-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Costing the Earth whilst wasting an opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to last\u00a0week's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006r4wn\">Costing the Earth<\/a> with mounting frustration as it failed to live up to its normal high standards. \u00a0The podcast is <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.bbc.co.uk\/podcasts\/radio4\/costearth\/costearth_20150505-1600a.mp3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show came from a foodie event in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bristolgreencapital.org\">Green Bristol<\/a>. \u00a0It was billed as a debate, but with five\u00a0talkative experts,\u00a0too many\u00a0questions, and only 30 minutes, the result was just points of view sailing past each other. \u00a0Just as interesting statements\u00a0were made and challenged, we had to move on, and there was no exploration of the issue. \u00a0Every question could have taken up the whole show. \u00a0What was the point? \u00a0And who on Earth thought this a good idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to last\u00a0week's Costing the Earth with mounting frustration as it failed to live up to its normal high standards. \u00a0The podcast is here. The show came from a foodie event in\u00a0Green Bristol. \u00a0It was billed as a debate,...<\/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-6320","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\/6320","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=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}