{"id":644,"date":"2009-11-12T18:50:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T01:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2019-01-13T21:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T04:09:48","slug":"a-more-sustainable-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/a-more-sustainable-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"A More Sustainable Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more and more landscape projects a key consideration is the hot topic of sustainable best practices, environmental impact, and how best to <em>green projects<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This drive to <em>green<\/em> everything from carpets to cars isn\u2019t unique to the landscape industry, its one of the major driving forces in both new marketing campaigns and genuine efforts to reduce and mitigate environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<p>As I attended a workshop and last month\u2019s North Coast dinner meeting by Trathan Heckman of <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.dailyacts.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyacts.org\/\">Daily Acts<\/a> here in Petaluma, it became clear to me that this idea of sustainability is really all encompassing. Trathan\u2019s work and presentations on gray water systems, local agriculture,\u00a0 and community and back yard gardens brought this home. Our choices make a difference- from the decisions we make on things like irrigation and plantings, to what we eat and where it\u2019s grown.<\/p>\n<p>As Thanksgiving approaches and we give thanks, we can also consider the sustainability of the meal itself. We can support local economies and local agriculture, and also sustainable agricultural practices. Consider instead of a typical mass produced supermarket turkey for example, an alternative <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/heritageturkeyfoundation.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/heritageturkeyfoundation.org\/\">Heritage Turkey<\/a>, bred in a free range environment, with reduced environmental impacts (or for even less enviornmental impact, skip the turkey). Good Shepherd Poultry and a growing number of other small turkey farmers are working to re-introduce heritage birds and raise turkeys more sustainably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more and more landscape projects a key consideration is the hot topic of sustainable best practices, environmental impact, and how best to green projects. This drive to green everything from carpets to cars isn\u2019t unique to the landscape industry, its one of the major driving forces in both new marketing campaigns and genuine efforts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/a-more-sustainable-thanksgiving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A More Sustainable Thanksgiving<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}