{"id":525372,"date":"2022-09-28T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=525372"},"modified":"2022-09-28T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T04:22:04","slug":"germany-urges-citizens-to-avoid-christmas-lights-in-view-of-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germany-urges-citizens-to-avoid-christmas-lights-in-view-of-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany urges citizens to avoid Christmas lights in view of energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany should forgo its tradition of Christmas lighting in cities and private households this year due to the energy crisis, an environment advocacy group said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This winter, it should be a matter of course to do without Christmas lights in cities as well as in houses and apartments,&#8221; Juergen Resch, managing director of Environmental Action Germany (DUH), told local media on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas lights in private households in Germany alone consumed as much electricity as a city of 400,000 inhabitants within an entire year.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the Russia-Ukraine war and the resulting energy shortage, as well as for reasons of climate protection, &#8220;we should pause for a moment&#8221;, Resch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany should forgo its tradition of Christmas lighting in cities and private households this year due to the energy crisis, an environment advocacy group said. &#8220;This winter, it should be a matter of course to do without Christmas lights in cities as well as in houses and apartments,&#8221; Juergen Resch, managing director of Environmental Action Germany (DUH), told local media on Monday. Christmas lights in private households in Germany alone consumed as much electricity as a city of 400,000 inhabitants within an entire year. In view of the Russia-Ukraine war and the resulting energy shortage, as well as for reasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}