{"id":12724,"date":"2013-05-18T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenbuildingelements.com\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2013-05-18T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T15:59:00","slug":"thinking-green-beyond-the-inside-of-your-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/thinking-green-beyond-the-inside-of-your-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Green Beyond the Inside of Your House"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although all of this may seem obvious, it ought to be noted that the insulation capacity of trees is everything but trivial. Some studies demonstrate that having trees around the home in urban settings can reduce energy consumption significantly. In the winter, heating needs can be decreased by 15% while in the summer the cost of air conditioning can be reduced by as much as 50%! Not only do these savings potentially represent an inviting amount of money at the end of the year, they also indicate that the overall carbon footprint of any house with trees around it can be significantly smaller than its treeless and plantless equivalent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[754,128,2998,3060,2999,3056,3042,10057,3887,10058,10059,10060,3001,10061,10062,10063,10064],"class_list":["post-12724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leed-news","tag-climate-change","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-garden","tag-great-greenness","tag-green-design","tag-green-technology","tag-guest-post","tag-inner-city-landscapes","tag-landscapes","tag-plants-and-herbs-for-city-gardens","tag-reducing-ghg-impact","tag-soothing-role-of-trees","tag-sustainable-business","tag-thinking-green-beyond-the-inside-of-your-house","tag-trees-for-shade","tag-tress-for-insulation","tag-urban-landscapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}