{"id":8965,"date":"2023-12-04T06:50:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T05:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2023-12-04T06:50:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T05:50:30","slug":"when-it-comes-to-harvesting-sustainable-christmas-trees-heres-why-real-plants-can-beat-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/12\/04\/when-it-comes-to-harvesting-sustainable-christmas-trees-heres-why-real-plants-can-beat-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"When it comes to harvesting sustainable Christmas trees, here&#039;s why real plants can beat plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>It&#039;s that time of year again when many Americans visit their local tree stand to pick up a pine tree to install in their living room for a few weeks until it dies. Others find and pull a drop of plastic in the shape of a tree from storage. Whether plastic or organic, once adorned with ornaments, lights and tinsel, a Christmas tree is not only the focal point of Christmas morning, but of the holiday season as well. <\/span><span>However, such trees can also become a source of stress, as the reality of climate change becomes more acute and tangible. Many might wonder: is it really a good idea to buy a cut down tree to stick in my living room for a month while\u00a0<\/span><span>atmospheric CO2 is rising at an unprecedented rate<\/span><span>\u00a0,\u00a0<\/span><span>the fires are burning stronger than before<\/span><span>\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span><span>rising sea levels<\/span><span> flooding our coastal cities? (<em>NICOLE KARLIS<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time of year again when many Americans visit their local tree stand to pick up a pine tree, which they install in their living room for a few weeks until it dies. Others find and pull out a plastic blob shaped like a tree from storage. Whether plastic or organic, once adorned with ornaments, lights, and tinsel, a Christmas tree is not only the centerpiece of the Christmas [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}