{"id":12760,"date":"2016-03-15T22:42:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T05:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12760"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:38","slug":"12760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=12760","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12761 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tobgay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tobgay.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tobgay-142x80.jpg 142w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tobgay-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Back in 2009, the country of Bhutan made a hefty promise to remain carbon neutral for the rest of time. In an inspiring TED talk by Tshering Tobgay, it is revealed how this little country tucked deep within the Himalayas, and sandwiched between the two super powers of China and India, has not only kept its promise, but today stands as the most carbon negative country in the world. Blessed with a lineage of enlightened monarchs, Bhutan has consistently balanced national economic growth with cultural preservation, environmental sustainability, and social development. <span class=\"s1\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/tshering-tobgay-carbon-neutral-bhutan\">source<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tobgay.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12760 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;Carbon Neutral Bhutan&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\u00a0<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed-ssl.ted.com\/talks\/tshering_tobgay_this_country_isn_t_just_carbon_neutral_it_s_carbon_negative.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an inspiring TED talk by Tshering Tobgay, it is revealed Bhutan stands as the most carbon negative country in the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[76,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropocene","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18240,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760\/revisions\/18240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}