{"id":9680,"date":"2010-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/25\/us-hindu-temple-certified-under-green-building-council-program\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:00:00","slug":"us-hindu-temple-certified-under-green-building-council-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/25\/us-hindu-temple-certified-under-green-building-council-program\/","title":{"rendered":"US Hindu Temple Certified Under Green Building Council Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/business\/2010\/oct\/22\/b-temp22-ar-578895\/\">www2.timesdispatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, October 22, 2010: Finishing touches are being put on a building in western Henrico County that is a soon-to-be Hindu temple, one of the first religious buildings in the U.S. that will be certified under the U.S. Green Building Council&#8217;s environmental program. <\/p>\n<p>The style is eighth-century. The techniques are green and modern. &#8220;We felt it was the socially responsible thing to do,&#8221; said Vijay Ramnarain, an architectural consultant on the project. Energy efficiency ties into the Hinduism, said Neil Bhatt, the architect on the project. &#8220;We worship the mother earth just as we worship other Deities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www2.timesdispatch.com RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, October 22, 2010: Finishing touches are being put on a building in western Henrico County that,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}