{"id":725,"date":"2007-12-04T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/roadblocks-to-green-decisions\/"},"modified":"2015-11-21T16:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T16:40:50","slug":"roadblocks-to-green-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/roadblocks-to-green-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadblocks to green decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending a lot of time around Elephant &#038; Castle (no its not a virtual game but rather a southern and definitely dodgy neighborhood of London) and going to get my lunch at the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesco.com\/\">Tesco<\/a>. The other day, as I waited for someone at the entrance, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.com\">EDF<\/a> sales person approached me to sell me their electricity scheme. I asked him about any green options and he looked at me blankly. He suddenly turned around and reached out for a corporate brochure, flipped through it and pointed to an article on their environmental goals. This only described that they intend to build a fund to do research on alternative energy sources&#8230; nowhere good enough clearly and I said that I was interested in a sustainable source of electricity, to which he replied &#8220;well at least I&#8217;m honest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough EDF actually own and supply British Gas, my current provider. So when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishgas.co.uk\/products-and-services\/green-energy.html\">they talk of green-sourced electricity<\/a> you really have to ask yourself who&#8217;s  telling the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending a lot of time around Elephant &#038; Castle (no its not a virtual game but rather a southern and definitely dodgy neighborhood of London) and going to get my lunch at the local Tesco. The other day, as I waited for someone at the entrance, an EDF sales person approached me to sell&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/roadblocks-to-green-decisions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roadblocks to green decisions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-bH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}