{"id":2495,"date":"2013-01-23T14:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:05:14","slug":"green-is-gold-how-renewable-energy-can-save-us-money-and-generate-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/publication\/2495\/green-is-gold-how-renewable-energy-can-save-us-money-and-generate-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Green is gold: how renewable energy can save us money and generate jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leader\">\n<div>Green can bring us gold: renewable energy can bring jobs, cost savings, and money to the Philippines. However, in the Philippines, ordinary citizens, business people, government workers, and even the president, have been bombarded with misinformation about renewable energy for decades. Here are just a few examples of outright untruths, often peddled by polluting industries: \u201cRenewable energy is expensive,\u201d or, \u201cRenewable energy is a pie in the sky dream for tree huggers.\u201d An even more popular misconception: \u201cCoal is cheap.\u201d This report is designed to fight such misleading rhetoric, debunk myths, and provide data-driven, balanced information about renewable energy in the Philippines.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Above all, this report lays out how renewable energy can save the government money, bring jobs to the country, create wealth, expand access to energy for the most vulnerable in poor communities, and foster national energy independence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/b7d41fd1-green-is-gold-how-renewable-energy-can-save-us-money-and-generate-jobs-03.pdf\">Download the report<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green can bring us gold: renewable energy can bring jobs, cost savings, and money to the Philippines. However, in the Philippines, ordinary citizens, business people, government workers, and even the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,7],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability","tag-climate","tag-energy","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}