{"id":222432,"date":"2026-01-08T01:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222432\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:39:10","slug":"climate-course-in-westside-arms-over-55s-to-reduce-their-carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222432\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate course in Westside arms over 55s to reduce their carbon footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a New Year dawns, many people take up New Year&#8217;s resolutions with self-improvement in mind<\/p>\n<p>The group attending a sustainability course for over-55s in Westside Library for the past 3 months are now well-armed to make changes in 2026 that will reduce their carbon footprints.<\/p>\n<p>As they attended the final session of the course today they told FYI Galway reporter James Varley about the changes they are adopting to make their lives more carbon friendly.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/climate-course-in-westside-arms-over-55s-to-reduce-their-carbon-footprint.jpg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full hover:scale-110 group-hover:scale-110 transition-all duration-300 object-cover w-full h-[148px] not-process rounded-l-md\" width=\"795\" height=\"795\" figureclass=\"aspect-square rounded-l-md max-h-36\"  alt=\"Climate course in Westside arms over 55s to reduce their carbon footprint\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a New Year dawns, many people take up New Year&#8217;s resolutions with self-improvement in mind The group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[133449,273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-222432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-course-westside","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}