{"id":24717,"date":"2011-01-20T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/20\/van-jones-the-economic-injusti\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T15:11:43","slug":"van-jones-the-economic-injusti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/van-jones-the-economic-injusti\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Jones: The economic injustice of plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Van Jones lays out a case against plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Because plastic trash, he shows us, hits poor people and poor countries &#8220;first and worst,&#8221; with consequences we all share no matter where we live and what we earn. At TEDxGPGP, he offers a few powerful ideas to help us reclaim our throwaway planet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/VanJones_2010X-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/VanJones-2010X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1056&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=van_jones_the_economic_injustice_of_plastic;year=2010;theme=a_taste_of_tedx;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_greener_future;event=TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Jones lays out a case against plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Because plastic trash, he shows us, hits poor people and poor countries &#8220;first and worst,&#8221; with consequences we all share no matter where we live and what we earn. At TEDxGPGP, he offers a few powerful ideas to help us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/van-jones-the-economic-injusti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Van Jones: The economic injustice of plastic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6qF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}