{"id":15601,"date":"2012-07-26T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=15601"},"modified":"2012-07-26T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:52:36","slug":"going-green-at-the-texas-governors-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/26\/going-green-at-the-texas-governors-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Green at the Texas Governor&#8217;s Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15602\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/26\/going-green-at-the-texas-governors-mansion\/7599623902_3032dd7c11_z\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15602\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15602\" title=\"7599623902_3032dd7c11_z\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/07\/7599623902_3032dd7c11_z-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/07\/7599623902_3032dd7c11_z-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/07\/7599623902_3032dd7c11_z-620x413.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/07\/7599623902_3032dd7c11_z.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Filipa Rodrigues\/KUT News<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor Rick Perry speaks at the unveiling of the remodeled Texas Governor&#39;s Mansion on July 18, 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Four years after a fire bomb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-dept-criminal-justice\/governors-mansion-fire\/mansion-restoration-complete\/\">nearly incinerated the entire building<\/a>, the Texas Governor&#8217;s Mansion is rebuilt and running. And you may be surprised to learn that it boasts several new eco-friendly features.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s not unlike the State of Texas having a diverse portfolio of energy,&#8221; Governor Rick Perry said at a tour of the restoration last week. &#8220;The Governor&#8217;s\u00a0Mansion could be a showcase for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Jay Root reports in the <em>Texas Tribune<\/em>, there are 53 wells reaching 300 feet below the mansion for a geothermal heat pump that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-dept-criminal-justice\/governors-mansion-fire\/mansion-restoration-complete\/\">will help heat and cool the building<\/a>. And solar panels on the roof will help heat most of the mansion&#8217;s water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both solar and geothermal\u00a0are some of the energy sources of the future,&#8221; Perry said at the ceremony. While Texas has a healthy fossil fuel base that adds to the economy, Perry said, it&#8217;s good for the state to have a &#8220;diverse portfolio&#8221; including wind, solar, geothermal and other types of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after a fire bomb nearly incinerated the entire building, the Texas Governor&#8217;s Mansion is rebuilt and running. And you may be surprised to learn that it boasts several new eco-friendly features. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s not unlike the State of Texas having a diverse portfolio of energy,&#8221; Governor Rick Perry said at a tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[71,30,62,32],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601"}],"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=15601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}