{"id":13641,"date":"2011-10-11T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13641"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:38:45","slug":"anti-fracking-protesters-score-a-win-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/anti-fracking-protesters-score-a-win-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Fracking Protesters Score a Win in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> I&#8217;m a sucker for a good story about small groups of people doing big things (as well as a fan of the famous Margaret Mead quote &#8220;Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.&#8221;). We&#8217;ve seen a lot of examples of ordinary citizens taking action to try right wrongs they see, ranging from the Arab Spring to the Madison, Wisconsin protests, to #OccupyWallStreet, to, yes, even the Tea Party. Here&#8217;s another of those stories (on a much smaller scale) that Lynn Fang at sister site <a href=\"http:\/\/greenlivingideas.com\">Green Living Ideas<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuJump-4 rpuRepost-1547f89d400220a5971e53f374b08cbb-top\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/13s5O\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; background: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.curate.us\/img\/b07aee59c3ba557deb55793c28cf8aee?\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the rest of the post <a href=\"http:\/\/greenlivingideas.com\/2011\/10\/07\/the-power-of-community-organizing-pittsburghs-ban-on-fracking\/\">over at Green Living Ideas<\/a><\/strong>; feel free to come back and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marcellusprotest\/5143541849\/\">Marcellus Protest at Flickr<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons license<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few committed individuals can make a big difference, as shown by this victory of anti-fracking activists in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[50,920,4875,1949,17],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anti-Fracking Group Gets Process Banned in Pittsburgh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A small group of anti-fracking protesters scored a big win in Pennsylvania be getting the Pittsburgh city council to ban the natural gas extraction method.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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