{"id":1653,"date":"2011-03-19T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:08:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:08:47","slug":"zero-waste-and-the-johnsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Zero Waste and the Johnsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/cbe\/vitality\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"vid=24454760&#038;startScreenCarouselUI=hide&#038;shareUrl=http%3A\/\/vitality.yahoo.com\/video-second-act-the-johnson-family-24454760&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed width=\"400\" height=\"225\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/cbe\/vitality\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"vid=24454760&#038;startScreenCarouselUI=hide&#038;shareUrl=http%3A\/\/vitality.yahoo.com\/video-second-act-the-johnson-family-24454760&#038;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p> I came across this video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetsongreen.com\/\">JetsonGreen<\/a> and just had to share it.<\/p>\n<p>I first heard of the Johnsons via a friend sharing the link to her <a href=\"http:\/\/zerowastehome.blogspot.com\/\">zero waste home blog<\/a> and was intrigued by Bea&#8217;s take on the three Rs. Before you ever get to reduce, reuse or recycle, you should refuse, refuse, refuse. This is a concept I can completely support. I&#8217;ve often shared how we are such a <a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=48\">consumer-driven society<\/a> that we buy, buy, buy and really need to be stepping back and evaluating our lifestyles. That&#8217;s part of what I&#8217;ve tried to share here at thesimpleHOUSE.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m encouraged and humbled by the Bea and Scott. This gives me even more to strive for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this video at JetsonGreen and just had to share it. I first heard of the Johnsons via a friend sharing the link to her zero waste home blog and was intrigued by Bea&#8217;s take on the three Rs. Before you ever get to reduce, reuse or recycle, you should refuse, refuse, refuse. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=1653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zero Waste and the Johnsons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[9,46,47,52,54,55,58,64,65,26,137,29,33],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-affordable","tag-consume","tag-disposable","tag-garbage","tag-half","tag-halves","tag-less","tag-recycle","tag-reduce","tag-responsible","tag-reuse","tag-simple","tag-sustainable-and-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}