{"id":434,"date":"2009-04-20T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2009-04-20T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T22:31:57","slug":"greenup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2009\/04\/greenup\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenupfestival.ca\/\">Greenup! festival<\/a> at the Kingston K-Rock centre.<br \/>\nWe barely found out about it a couple of days in advance but luckily were able to change plans in order to attend early in the morning.  It was a great sunny day albeit a little cool.  The first keynote speaker was Leonard Lee, president of one of favourite companies, Lee Valley Tools.<br \/>\nHe was good to listen to and we ended up hoping they would open up a store in Kingston so we could work there.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon speaker was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilldeacon.ca\/\">Gillian Deacon<\/a>, ex-past-cohost of Daily Planet.  She addressed her new book,  Green for Life, which we picked up and had signed at the event.<\/p>\n<p>In between we had a tour of the LEED silver facility, going back into the Command Centre and some of the mechanical areas.  There were 51 exhibitors there and it took us a good hour to slowly travel the aisles, stopping to read each display and asking questions of folks there.<br \/>\nA good event, although what the (&#038;#)4 the city of kingston is thinking about outrageous parking charges on a Sunday in the local lots.  Disgusting!<\/p>\n<p>At the event we chatted with city councillor Leonore Foster, learned about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofkingston.ca\/\">City of Kingston<\/a> Goal of becoming the most sustainable city in Canada, and filled out some survey questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday saw the Greenup! festival at the Kingston K-Rock centre. We barely found out about it a couple of days in advance but luckily were able to change plans in order to attend early in the morning. It was a great sunny day albeit a little cool. The first keynote speaker was Leonard Lee, president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-power","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}