{"id":1425,"date":"2015-11-07T03:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T03:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2015-11-07T03:51:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T03:51:03","slug":"the-guardian-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2015\/nov\/06\/renewable-energy-climate-change-land-art-generator-initiative\" target=\"blank\" \/>Public art projects that double as renewable energy sources<\/a><br \/>\nby Kristine Wong<br \/>\nNovember 7, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2015\/nov\/06\/renewable-energy-climate-change-land-art-generator-initiative\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-07-Guardian-Business1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"2015-11-07-Guardian-Business\" width=\"550\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two Pittsburgh artists are encouraging cities around the world to install public art structures designed to generate power while educating viewers about renewable energy<\/p>\n<p>What happens when renewable energy meets public art? The Land Art Generator Initiative, or Lagi, founded by Pittsburgh-based artists Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, is trying to find the answer with several proposed public art structures designed to generate power while inspiring and educating their viewers. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative has collected hundreds of designs from competitions held in Abu Dhabi, New York City and Copenhagen. At the 2016 competition, which will be held in Santa Monica, California, entrants will design structures that harvest clean energy or generate clean drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic art can contribute to the solutions we need to steer us away from the effects of climate change,\u201d Monoian said at October\u2019s SXSW Eco conference in Austin, Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2015\/nov\/06\/renewable-energy-climate-change-land-art-generator-initiative\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at the Guardian&#8211;><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public art projects that double as renewable energy sources by Kristine Wong November 7, 2015 Two Pittsburgh artists are encouraging cities around the world to install public art structures designed to generate power while educating viewers about renewable energy What happens when renewable energy meets public art? The Land Art Generator Initiative, or Lagi, founded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,72,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-press-and-articles-2015","category-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}