{"id":2385,"date":"2013-08-28T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2013-11-11T18:17:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T10:17:49","slug":"greening-beige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2013\/08\/greening-beige\/","title":{"rendered":"Greening The Beige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/greening-the-beige.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/greening-the-beige.jpg\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" alt=\"greening the beige\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2386\" \/><\/a>Back in August, I made what I call the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/10\/percent-pledge\/\" target=\"_blank\">5% pledge<\/a>. I would donate 5% of my time and money to causes that I found worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I adopted a dog who had been abused by his original owner, then dognapped, then abandoned in a kennel for seven months, and then brought to live at an office in Cao Chang Di. You could in a way say that taking care of Bacon has filled way more than 5% of my time, and cost a good chunk of money as well.<\/p>\n<p>But even though having Bacon has eaten up a great deal of my free time, I still want to volunteer for meaningful causes. I just have to find the right opportunities. Either way, I can still donate money.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I recently donated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeningthebeige.org\/gtb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greening The Beige<\/a>, a Beijing-based, eco-minded arts collective and not-for-profit community network dedicated to nurturing awareness of environmental issues. In a developing city such as Beijing, sometimes the most important thing you can do is educate residents about what they can do to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>I made my donation as part of their Indy Go-Go fundraiser project. The deadline has passed, but you can still contribute to GtB, either with a cash donation or by participating in one of their upcoming events.<\/p>\n<p>Visit their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeningthebeige.org\/gtb\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>And even if GtB isn&#8217;t for you, think about making the 5% pledge yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of Bacon, so you know how cute he is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-580x435.jpg 580w, http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-940x705.jpg 940w, http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August, I made what I call the 5% pledge. I would donate 5% of my time and money to causes that I found worthwhile. Since then, I adopted a dog who had been abused by his original owner, then dognapped, then abandoned in a kennel for seven months, and then brought to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1576,2401,2847,2472,2239,2846,2022,65,2238,2470,2471],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acre","tag-bacon","tag-beagle","tag-beijing","tag-cao-chang-di","tag-charity","tag-china","tag-donate","tag-environment","tag-five-percent-pledge","tag-greening-the-beige","tag-indy-gogo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}