{"id":1252,"date":"2017-09-19T02:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2017-09-19T02:40:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:40:59","slug":"fact-follows-fiction-news-that-coal-miners-will-be-retrained-echoes-theme-from-conference-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Fact follows fiction: news that coal miners will be retrained echoes theme from conference workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Invest in Peace conference in July 2017 featured a fictive case of a town called Coaltown struggling to find its way out of the extractive fossil-fuel mindset into the regenerative, evergreen paradigm, (<a href=\"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/conference-follow-up-report-from-coaltown-case-study\/\">See the report from that workshop<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/job-training-community-college-put-coal-miners-new-path\/\">PBS.org website<\/a>, a news item features a\u00a0\u00a0West Virginia nonprofit matching\u00a0 displaced workers to sustainable jobs in agriculture or carpentry while helping them pursue associate degrees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"left-column cf\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"sidebarvideotop\" class=\"right-column\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case study at Caux conference this year, we featured an Appalachian town called Coaltown struggling to leave the extractive, fossil based paradigm to embrace a regenerative, evergreen mindset. One item that came up was workers being retrained in solar energy. News from the area talk of an NGO doing something similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-regenerative-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}