{"id":3952,"date":"2019-07-23T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T06:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"persistence-pays-powering-a-green-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/23\/persistence-pays-powering-a-green-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistence Pays: Powering A Green Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacigreen tackles the problem of invasive water hyacinth plants chocking the city\u2019s water supply. Her invention cuts up water hyacinth, fermenting into fertilizer and compost for farmers, called Jacigrow\u2014available in bottles of 250 ml, 0.5 litres, 1 litre and 5\u00a0litres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The by-product of the\nfertilizer is a gas, which Mamane\u2019s machine captures in blue plastic square\nbags, like the one she is trying to attach to the generator now, and converted\ninto electricity for families who don\u2019t have a regular power supply. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/persistence-pays-powering-green-economy\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Jacigreen tackles the problem of invasive water hyacinth plants chocking the city\u2019s water supply. Her invention cuts up water hyacinth, fermenting into fertilizer and compost for farmers,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}