{"id":321,"date":"2016-12-10T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clt-associates.com.au\/?p=321"},"modified":"2017-02-12T22:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T12:34:28","slug":"renewable-city-burlington-vt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clt-associates.com.au\/index.php\/2016\/12\/10\/renewable-city-burlington-vt\/","title":{"rendered":"All Renewable City-Burlington, VT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/11\/burlington-what-works-green-energy-214463\" target=\"_blank\">Burlington, VT all renewable city and largest CLT in the world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burlington, Vermont is not only the world&#8217;s largest community land trust, but is working toward sustainability.\u00a0 They built the first woodchip plant in the US, which produces enough electricity (50MW) to power the entire city, although Burlington only owns half the power from this plant and has other renewable sources. 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