{"id":1944,"date":"2007-09-04T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T07:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/half-price-big-mac-to-fight-global-warming-proves-big-hit-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T07:35:41","slug":"half-price-big-mac-to-fight-global-warming-proves-big-hit-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/half-price-big-mac-to-fight-global-warming-proves-big-hit-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-price Big Mac to fight global warming proves big hit in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jshkpb3GspwPw_u875n2X_EXwNDA\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070914_mcdonalds.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/070914_mcdonalds.jpg\" title=\"070914_mcdonalds.jpg\" alt=\"070914_mcdonalds.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> TOKYO (AFP) \u2013 A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald&#8217;s hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered a Big Mac for 150 yen (1.3 dollars), about half the normal price, to anyone demonstrating a commitment to preventing climate change. People were asked to check up to 39 boxes on a form they could download from the environment ministry&#8217;s website, each listing a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions blamed for global warming. (&#8230;) The 39 measures range from cutting air conditioning use to reducing shower time by one minute to simply wiping water off the bottom of a kettle to save energy when heating it on a stove. Customers can print the forms or show them on their cellphones. The McDonald&#8217;s campaign lasts for three weeks starting Friday. The ministry official said most hits on the website were just after 9:00am, indicating many people were thinking about Big Macs as they started work. Image source: afp.google.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jshkpb3GspwPw_u875n2X_EXwNDA\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>Japan<span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=2\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">McDonald\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jshkpb3GspwPw_u875n2X_EXwNDA\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (AFP) \u2013 A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald&#8217;s hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered a Big Mac for 150 yen (1.3 dollars), about half the normal price, to anyone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mcdonalds","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}