{"id":56974,"date":"2018-06-11T06:05:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56974"},"modified":"2018-06-11T06:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T06:05:15","slug":"these-two-youngsters-are-on-a-mission-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/06\/11\/these-two-youngsters-are-on-a-mission-to-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"These two youngsters are on a mission to save the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, Carter and Olivia Ries were merely 8 and 7 years old when they started their non-profit One More Generation (OMG) targeted to protect the endangered wildlife. Right\u00a0from assisting injured wildlife after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster to writing thousands of letters to South Africa&#8217;s President Zuma to take more stringent measures to stop rhino poaching, the siblings have traveled all over the world to protect nature.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Carter and Olivia, now 17 and 16, pointed their attention at one important solution for helping wildlife: getting people and businesses to reduce or phase out their use of disposable plastic, most notably straws, which have been known to injure or kill animals around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia-based teens launched their campaign One Less Straw and worked with individual consumers and businesses around the country and the world on issues related to plastic consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/one-more-generation-2575996140.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/one-more-generation-2575996140.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, Carter and Olivia Ries were merely 8 and 7 years old when they started their non-profit One More Generation (OMG) targeted to protect the endangered wildlife. Right\u00a0from assisting injured wildlife after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster to writing thousands of letters to South Africa&#8217;s President Zuma to take more stringent measures to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}