{"id":3388,"date":"2020-06-04T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2020-06-04T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T23:10:00","slug":"reading-is-getting-ready-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/reading-is-getting-ready-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading is Getting Ready for Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Scheid, Reading Eagle, May 26, 2020.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Reading\u2019s path to committing to 100% renewable energy began almost four years ago with a worried community college writing professor.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stephanie Anderson of Reading Area Community College found herself looking for a way to make a difference as the U.S. looked to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. She joined the Sierra Club. Soon she was spending hours each week educating herself and community members and leaders in Berks County about the environmental organization\u2019s national push for renewable energy called Ready for 100.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It became a labor of love very quickly,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Her outreach became a group: Reading for 100.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/reading-wants-to-lead-the-charge-for-green-energy-targeting-100-clean-electricity-by-2035\/article_974fa489-6126-509f-8a4e-fac9ec9643a2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By June, City Council voted to commit the city\u2019s residents and businesses to 100% renewable energy by 2050.<\/a> It was a significant and visible step toward a climate action plan that some say could boost Reading\u2019s economic development prospects.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/news\/environment\/reading-is-getting-ready-for-climate-change\/article_45d87daa-961e-11ea-bb33-2f4d92bbbf84.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Article Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Photo caption\/credit:\u00a0 LED street lights at Court Street between Second and Third streets are energy efficient. <span class=\"credit\"><span class=\"tnt-byline\">BEN HASTY \u2014 READING EAGLE<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Scheid, Reading Eagle, May 26, 2020. Reading\u2019s path to committing to 100% renewable energy began almost four years<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleanpower","category-pa_pgh_news","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}