{"id":687,"date":"2015-11-03T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T18:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210s23\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-12-01T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T05:24:10","slug":"from-dirty-business-to-consuming-delicacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/2015\/11\/03\/from-dirty-business-to-consuming-delicacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Diamond Growers: A Global Success with Local Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Chloe<\/p>\n<p>The California-based Blue Diamond Growers company produces 82% of almond production in the world. This company has known global success through a remarkable advertising strategy and the continuous creation of a diversity of products. Popular demand for almonds has risen dramatically in the last two decades, and in 2012, U.S. per capita consumption of almonds represented 2 pounds!<\/p>\n<p>However, its corporate success at an international level has entailed a number of problems at a local level that will have a visible impact on the future if the company continues to apply its environmentally-problematic practices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/06828c1ac004f6c0db0e47a43710fb2b\/comsumption-storymap\/index.html\">Storymap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Chloe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29790,32853,31563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2015","category-global-citizen-storymap","category-section-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}