{"id":2657,"date":"2025-03-19T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:16:01","slug":"the-shift-to-renewable-energy-in-uruguay-should-inspire-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-shift-to-renewable-energy-in-uruguay-should-inspire-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The shift to renewable energy in Uruguay should inspire us all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, Uruguay depended virtually 100 percent on imported oil to provide its energy needs.\u00a0 Today, it produces up to 98 percent of its energy from renewable sources.\u00a0 It has shown other countries how to do it, but will they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uruguay\u2019s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it\u2019s done<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/27\/uruguays-green-power-revolution-rapid-shift-to-wind-shows-the-world-how-its-done\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/27\/uruguays-green-power-revolution-rapid-shift-to-wind-shows-the-world-how-its-done<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780231187855\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago, Uruguay depended virtually 100 percent on imported oil to provide its energy needs.\u00a0 Today, it produces up to 98 percent of its energy from renewable sources.\u00a0 It has shown other countries how to do it, but will they? Uruguay\u2019s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it\u2019s done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-shift-to-renewable-energy-in-uruguay-should-inspire-us-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The shift to renewable energy in Uruguay should inspire us all&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,41,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-news","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}