{"id":186,"date":"2008-09-16T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=186"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:12:08","slug":"hot-flat-and-crowded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/16\/hot-flat-and-crowded\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot, Flat, and Crowded"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/flat.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/flat.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hot, Flat and Crowded<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution&#8211;and How It Can Renew America.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman, Thomas L. author.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/catalog_cn\/ocn234316165\"><em>Hot, Flat and Crowded<\/em> <\/a> is a new book in the library by Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman.  He mapped the level economic playing field created by digital technology and global free-market capitalism in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/catalog_cn\/ocm57202171\">The World Is Flat<\/a> <\/em> in 2005. He now adds two crucial elements to his analysis of the state of the world: climate change and the population explosion.  <em>Booklist<\/em> says <span class=\"style22\">Friedman is lashing in his critique of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failure to face energy and climate realities. <\/span><span class=\"style22\">Fluent in business, politics, and science, Friedman cogently explains the complex challenges we face, reminds us of our adaptability, and defines environmentalism as the key to peace and democracy. <\/span><span class=\"style22\">Expect to hear a lot about this book.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution&#8211;and How It Can Renew America. Friedman, Thomas L. author. Hot, Flat and Crowded is a new book in the library by Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman. He mapped the level economic playing field created by digital technology and global free-market capitalism in The World &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/16\/hot-flat-and-crowded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hot, Flat, and Crowded<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases","category-information","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10272,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/10272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}