{"id":1685,"date":"2005-08-19T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2005-08-19T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T16:38:15","slug":"germans_make_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Germans make Madison presentation on sustainable environmental policies &#038; transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental leaders from Freiburg, Germany will give a presentation at the MATC Downtown Education Center from 7:30 to 9:30 am on Friday, August 26. Dr. Dieter Woerner, Director of Freiburg\u2019s Environmental Department, will give a talk on sustainable environmental policy and Andreas Hildebrandt of Verkehrs-AG will discuss the regional transportation system.  Freiburg has developed sustainable environmental policies including extensive use of solar energy, bike trails and mass transit, recycling and urban planning.  In 1992, Freiburg was awarded the title \u201cGerman Environmental Capital\u201d in a nationwide competition.<br \/>\nMore information about Freiburg and other German sustainable development efforts visit: http:\/\/madisonfreiburg.org\/sustainablecity.htm,  http:\/\/www.solarregion.freiburg.de, http:\/\/www.wi-ei.org\/germanymission.pdf and http:\/\/www.greentierwi.info\/green.html<br \/>\nThis event is sponsored by the Madison-Freiburg Sister City Committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustaindane.org\">Sustain Dane<\/a>, UWEX\/SHWEC, and MATC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental leaders from Freiburg, Germany will give a presentation at the MATC Downtown Education Center from 7:30 to 9:30 am on Friday, August 26. Dr. Dieter Woerner, Director of Freiburg\u2019s Environmental Department, will give a talk on sustainable environmental policy and Andreas Hildebrandt of Verkehrs-AG will discuss the regional transportation system. Freiburg has developed sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}