{"id":19613,"date":"2013-12-06T19:51:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T19:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=314543"},"modified":"2013-12-06T19:51:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T19:51:35","slug":"nelson-mandela-it-always-seems-impossible-until-it-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/nelson-mandela-it-always-seems-impossible-until-it-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela: It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mandellaFI-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"mandellaFI\"><\/p>\n<p>By&nbsp;Lushendrie Naidu<\/p>\n<p>The last great leader of the twentieth century&mdash;and an inspiration for this new millennium&mdash;died here in South Africa yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela inspired all of us with his courage, his unyielding resistance and his grace. Inspired by Mandela&rsquo;s vision, <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/climate-change-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate<\/a> activists from around the world helped make this video last June during the Global Power Shift convergence organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/350.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">350.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He touched all of us with his courage, his unyielding resistance and his grace. He knew how to fight and he knew when to make peace.<\/p>\n<p>As a South African, I am filled with an overwhelming appreciation for a man that gave the world so much&mdash;freedom, love, compassion, empathy, graciousness and of course, himself.&nbsp;Along the way, Mandela and his colleagues helped pioneer the divestment tactic that many climate campaigners are now emulating. I think the tribute he would like the most is the knowledge that people the world over are carrying on his work.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela&#8217;s selfless determination is an inspiration to all of us, and we will keep his memory close to our hearts on the road ahead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/climate-change-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLIMATE CHANGE<\/a>&nbsp;page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/topnewsbanner1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[754,12199,2906],"class_list":["post-19613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-climate-change","tag-featured-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19613","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=19613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}