{"id":21,"date":"2009-02-02T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/blog\/sustainability-is-not-optional\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T09:29:00","slug":"sustainability-is-not-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability is Not Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">DM<\/span> News, the authority for Direct Marketers (January 19<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">th<\/span> 2009)  wondered, &#8220;what the new presidency will mean for green marketing.&#8221;  Well, the good news is that Terry <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Wellman<\/span> who produces the show, Business Green Media Conference, notes a shift in the general attitude towards sustainability. &#8220;The atmosphere has changed <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">tremendously<\/span> with the change in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">administration<\/span>, and it is now very positive about sustainability.&#8221; Good to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I can&#8217;t help wondering how it is that sustainability remains in the optional category. As a friend suggested at lunch yesterday, rather than <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">EarthSayers<\/span>.<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">tv<\/span> being the &#8220;voices of sustainability&#8221; the positioning ought to be, &#8220;voices of survival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the bad news. We still act like we have all the time in the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Visit earthsayers.tv and become a sustainability advocate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DM News, the authority for Direct Marketers (January 19th 2009) wondered, &#8220;what the new presidency will mean for green marketing.&#8221; Well, the good news is that Terry Wellman who produces the show, Business Green Media Conference, notes a shift in the general attitude towards sustainability. &#8220;The atmosphere has changed tremendously with the change in administration, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sustainability-events-green-planet-prosperity-brands-branding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}