{"id":470,"date":"2008-04-22T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/04\/22\/check-out-the-hidden-gold\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:15:25","slug":"check-out-the-hidden-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/04\/22\/check-out-the-hidden-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out the Hidden Gold!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Climate 411 has great content. But you may have noticed that &#8211; until today &#8211; it&#8217;s been hard to find things in our archive. Our topic categories evolved organically as we posted, and what we ended up with wasn&#8217;t very useful.<\/p>\n<p>No more! Check out our new, improved, and actually useful &#8220;Posts by Topic&#8221; list. 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