{"id":22479,"date":"2016-04-19T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T05:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22479"},"modified":"2016-04-19T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T05:32:06","slug":"earth-day-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/earth-day-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/edayr.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Earth Day every day in California. Why? The state\u00a0with the most\u00a0diverse landscapes (mountains, deserts and beaches), largest population and most visitors also experiences the greatest impacts.\u00a0\u00a0With each passing year since it was founded in 1970\u00a0Earth Day has increasingly become\u00a0a\u00a0daily effort in California to recycle, reuse, conserve and pitch in to clean up.\u00a0Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/earthday\/california-earth-day.html\">great Earth Day events<\/a>\u00a0worth celebrating!<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few California statistics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>39 million population (approx.)<\/li>\n<li>36 million cars, trucks and motorcycles registered to operate in California<\/li>\n<li>21%\u00a0cut in West Coast ozone-forming pollutants offset by China\u2019s 21%\u00a0rise in ozone-forming pollutants\u00a0that reach California according to NASA\/JPL study released in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>California led the nation in 2013 by diverting approx.\u00a065%\u00a0of its trash (60 million tons) into higher-value products.<\/li>\n<li>Statewide recycling goal: diverting 75%\u00a0of our waste from landfills by 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Earth Day every day in California. Why? The state\u00a0with the most\u00a0diverse landscapes (mountains, deserts and beaches), largest population and most visitors also experiences the greatest impacts.\u00a0\u00a0With each passing year since it was founded in 1970\u00a0Earth Day has increasingly become\u00a0a\u00a0daily effort in California to recycle, reuse, conserve and pitch in to clean up.\u00a0Here are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}