{"id":6851,"date":"2016-01-09T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T10:15:49","slug":"bristol-mayor-wins-greenwash-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6851","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Mayor wins greenwash award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fitting end to Bristol&#8217;s year as <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/europeangreencapital\/index_en.htm\">European Green Capital<\/a>, Mayor George Ferguson has won the Greenwash Award in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.private-eye.co.uk\/sections.php?section_link=rotten_boroughs&amp;1383\">Private Eye&#8217;s Rotten Boroughs awards for 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/gf_greenwash.png\" alt=\"screenshot of Private Eye item\" width=\"497\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/gf_greenwash.png 497w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/01\/gf_greenwash-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From your correspondent&#8217;s vantage point in the inner city, it has to be said that Bristol&#8217;s year as Europe&#8217;s beacon of best environmental practice has hardly been crowned with glory, with money wasted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Hit-mist-Online-critics-slam-Bristol-Fog-Bridge\/story-26035218-detail\/story.html\">pointless art projects<\/a>, widespread <a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5564\">wildlife habitat destruction<\/a> and the continuing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?tag=tidybs5\">blight of fly-tipping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will George Ferguson be collecting his award in person from Lord Gnome? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fitting end to Bristol&#8217;s year as European Green Capital, Mayor George Ferguson has won the Greenwash Award in Private Eye&#8217;s Rotten Boroughs awards for 2015. From your correspondent&#8217;s vantage point in the inner city, it has to be said that Bristol&#8217;s year as Europe&#8217;s beacon of best environmental practice has hardly been crowned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,32,15],"tags":[40,36,37,33,20],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-media","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-greenwashing","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}