{"id":1826,"date":"2009-11-22T20:40:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T08:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2009-11-22T21:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T09:08:33","slug":"getting-1010-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1826","title":{"rendered":"Getting 10:10 to New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1010global.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1010uk.org\/images\/template\/commit-pink.png\" \/><\/a> 10:10 is a campaign to get individuals, businesses and organisations to commit to reducing their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. It was started in the UK by the excellent director of <em>The Age of Stupid<\/em>, Franny Armstrong. Chris Laidlaw interviewed 10:10 manager Daniel Vockins a couple of Saturdays ago (download it <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.radionz.co.nz\/ideas\/ideas-20091108-1105-Ideas_for_08_November_2009-048.mp3\">here<\/a>). 10:10 has had quite a bit of success in Britain, with about 50,000 committed so far, including celebrity-types, MPs and sports teams. Vockins said if 1,010 New Zealanders sign up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1010global.org\/\">10:10 global website<\/a> they&#8217;ll launch it here by Christmas. <strong>I have signed up, and I think you should to.<\/strong> If you sign up you&#8217;ll receive pointers on achieving the cuts. Although individual consumption choices dictate only a small percentage of total emissions (see graph below &ndash; as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/010691.html\">Alex Steffen says<\/a> &#8220;the parts of our lives that actually fall within our direct control are the tips of systemic icebergs&#8221;), the campaign has the potential to build a movement that would show politicians and industry (who can actually make the necessary reductions), as well as the public itself, that there is widespread support for real change. There&#8217;s lots more guff about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/10-10\">10:10 on the <em>Guardian<\/em> website<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shapenz.org.nz\/energy2050\/images\/figure5.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<small>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapenz.org.nz\/energy2050\/content.asp?id=393\">ref<\/a>]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:10 is a campaign to get individuals, businesses and organisations to commit to reducing their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. It was started in the UK by the excellent director of The Age of Stupid, Franny Armstrong. Chris Laidlaw interviewed 10:10 manager Daniel Vockins a couple of Saturdays ago (download it here). 10:10 has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}