{"id":2181,"date":"2005-09-26T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2005-09-26T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T11:42:00","slug":"welsh-authority-shows-how-swaps-lower-energy-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"Welsh authority shows how swaps lower energy intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of mobility week a Welsh Local authority offered car owners a full year&#8217;s free use of public transport in return for them giving up their car for scrap.<\/p>\n<p>Some 30 people took up the offer. What I see as significant is the initiative shows us the basis of a very powerful method.<\/p>\n<p>People need a certain level of security. If swapping something gives more security whilst lowering energy intensity you have a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Going further&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free relocation and maybe free accomodation for a while to people with long commutes who move to their area of work.<\/li>\n<li>Free housing for people who give up their cars.<\/li>\n<li>Free housing for those who give up their jobs.<\/li>\n<li>Free training and start-up help for those who give up industrial jobs to start local food production.<\/li>\n<li>Free market place space for local farmer&#8217;s markets in return for employing and or training newcomers to food production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of mobility week a Welsh Local authority offered car owners a full year&#8217;s free use of public transport in return for them giving up their car for scrap. Some 30 people took up the offer. What I see as significant is the initiative shows us the basis of a very powerful method. People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envisioning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}