{"id":15049,"date":"2012-07-16T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T16:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T16:56:10","slug":"austins-green-building-incubator-a-look-at-the-pecan-street-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/16\/austins-green-building-incubator-a-look-at-the-pecan-street-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin&#8217;s Green Building Incubator: A Look at the Pecan Street Research Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"514\" height=\"290\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"width=514&amp;height=290&amp;video=2256300900&amp;player=viral&amp;end=0&amp;lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"514\" height=\"290\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" flashvars=\"width=514&amp;height=290&amp;video=2256300900&amp;player=viral&amp;end=0&amp;lr_admap=in:warnings:0;in:pbs:0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #808080; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 512px;\"><em>Watch <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #4eb2fe !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2256300900\" target=\"_blank\">In Austin, Charged up About Smart Power<\/a> on PBS. See more from <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #4eb2fe !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS NewsHour.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Texan interested in green building, smart grids and solar panels, there&#8217;s probably no better place to see them in action than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pecanstreet.org\/projects\/mueller\/\">Pecan Street Research Institute<\/a>\u00a0in Austin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muelleraustin.com\/\">Mueller<\/a> neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>That neighborhood, just northeast of downtown Austin, is home to hundreds of green-built homes, all tied into a smart grid, with many of them even outfitted with solar panel arrays. It&#8217;s become a test ground for some of the most advanced home technologies in America.<\/p>\n<p>In the video above from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/science\/july-dec12\/smartgrid_07-13.html\">PBS NewsHour<\/a>, you can take a look inside the project that&#8217;s become a vital incubator for the green building and tech communities. And to learn more about the Mueller development, you can read our earlier story, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/03\/21\/a-renewable-experiment-takes-root-in-austin\/\">Green Experiment Takes Root in Austin.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch In Austin, Charged up About Smart Power on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. If you&#8217;re a Texan interested in green building, smart grids and solar panels, there&#8217;s probably no better place to see them in action than the Pecan Street Research Institute\u00a0in Austin&#8217;s Mueller neighborhood. That neighborhood, just northeast of downtown Austin, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[203,202,69,30,204,32,24],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15063,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions\/15063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}