{"id":6679,"date":"2015-04-08T15:24:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2015-04-09T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:33:47","slug":"where-is-the-light-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/where-is-the-light-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"where is the light switch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6680\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150312-Huja.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150312-Huja.jpg\" alt=\"CHO Mayor Huja silhouette\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150312-Huja.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150312-Huja-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/150312-Huja-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The City of Charlottesville is a quarter finalist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/guep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown University Energy Prize<\/a>, a nationwide competition for small-to-medium sized<br \/>\n communities to compete to win a $5 million grand prize by saving energy.<br \/>\nThe Council meets tomorrow afternoon for a budget work session. <\/p>\n<p>While operating 6016 streetlights, the City doesn&#8217;t appear to have an IES certified individual (Illuminating Engineering Society) on staff.<br \/>\nWho is in charge of the lighting? Who directs spending in this arena to make sure we get best lighting for dollars spent?<br \/>\nWho knows how many dollars are spent on lighting?<br \/>\nThere are forms available to request the addition of streetlights, drop lens, highway-style fixtures, but<br \/>\nno one knows where the <a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/light-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\">light switch<\/a> is, where the form is to request the removal of lighting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/28\/green-city-philippic\/\" target=\"_blank\">We submitted a dark-skies petition in 2000 trying to reclaim the night..<\/a><br \/>\nSomeday&#8230;<br \/>\n(read Janis Jaquith&#8217;s essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioessays.com\/essays\/lights\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Turn Off The Lights&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,14,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-environment","category-fishbones","category-night"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}