{"id":463,"date":"2010-08-08T01:23:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T09:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2010-08-04T03:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T11:31:53","slug":"leisure-activities-that-are-not-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Leisure Activities that are not Green!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so many science experiments on how to get alternative sources of energy it is amazing how something as simple as conservation can take a back step. If you conserve what you have it will last you a longer time. Yet we go out of the way to act in a wasteful manner and its not just driving a petrol car to work that I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Think of all the leisure activities we do which waste non renewable energy. Yes racing cars form part of the activities which waste a good deal of fuel on a non productive task.Think about the liters of fuel which can be saved each year if we did away with racing cars. I have nothing against the\u00c2\u00a0 formula one people.<\/p>\n<p>In fact I quite enjoy races. Specially when they are powered by the human being. Think of the 100 meter dash or the marathon, isn&#8217;t it a celebration of human spirit and speed? And they are definitely a far more eco-friendly way of entertainment.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that racing cars is going to go out of fashion soon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the efforts to curb our excesses, there is always a new way being found to be careless with the natural resources that we share on this planet. Maybe the next generation can do a better job of managing the planet than we did. If their <a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Edible-Home-School-Science-Experiment---Homemade-Ice-Cream&amp;id=2341816\">science fair projects <\/a>are anything to go by, they just might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so many science experiments on how to get alternative sources of energy it is amazing how something as simple as conservation can take a back step. If you conserve what you have it will last you a longer time. Yet we go out of the way to act in a wasteful manner and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fair-projects","tag-science-fair-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}