{"id":2731,"date":"2011-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/dr-morgan-williams-nz-parliamentary-commissioner-for-the-environment-from-1997-to-2007\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:17:50","slug":"dr-morgan-williams-nz-parliamentary-commissioner-for-the-environment-from-1997-to-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/dr-morgan-williams-nz-parliamentary-commissioner-for-the-environment-from-1997-to-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Morgan Williams, NZ Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment from 1997 to 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview Morgan clarifies what is green, sustainable and prosperous and that the Parliamentary political term is too short, as nothing really gets done. That there is only one educational institution in NZ that has integrated sustainability through everyone of its courses. Why?<\/p>\n<p>The increasing costs of food, water and energy that will cause social unrest, and can we meet the social demand without having huge unrest.<\/p>\n<p>And the many challenges that need to be addressed at a causal level, with an extra 2 billion population in the next 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is a watch dog on the NZ Environment, outside of Government (like an Ombudsmen but with a small O), making sure that Government are following environmental protocols that are going to benefit the long term goals of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}