{"id":27,"date":"2008-12-13T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/13\/sustainability-goes-beyond-houses"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:04:15","slug":"sustainability-goes-beyond-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"sustainability goes beyond houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainability involves every aspect of our lives. So while our houses are important, we should also realize that saving a sheet of paper here, saves a tree somewhere and reduces how much rainforest gets cut down and that affects the livelihood of the family in South America and on and on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Earth is a closed system &#8212; nothing ever truly &#8220;goes away&#8221; (like garbage and waste).\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One big item is water. Many people in the world don&#8217;t have access to clean drinking water. Not only do our houses affect this (through using dual flush toilets or water-saving faucets), but water saved here can mean clean water somewhere else.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As Americans, we are blessed with abundance. I came across a website recently that had a powerful message. As we are in this Advent Season, check out the Advent Conspiracy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventconspiracy.org\">www.adventconspiracy.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Merry Christmas!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainability involves every aspect of our lives. So while our houses are important, we should also realize that saving a sheet of paper here, saves a tree somewhere and reduces how much rainforest gets cut down and that affects the livelihood of the family in South America and on and on.\u00a0 The Earth is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=27\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;sustainability goes beyond houses&#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":[9,16,26,29,31,32,33],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-affordable","tag-housing","tag-responsible","tag-simple","tag-stock-plans","tag-style","tag-sustainable-and-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}