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		<title>Tires Used to Build Earthquake-Resistant Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa McNatt</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“It’s just a very beautiful way to use a very ugly piece of a cast-away part of industrialization,” says Dr. Alan Early of the Indonesia Aid Foundation, who holds a doctorate in systems engineering analysis from Cornell  University and who has...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Telecommuting Two Days a Week Could Save Billions</title>
		<link>http://feeds.earth911.com/~r/earth911/~3/KTw_845_EdE/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine J. Chen</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For some, telecommuting is a worker&#8217;s dream. Working from home means not having to worry about catching the 8 o’clock train or getting dressed in uncomfortable business suits each day. It translates in many workers’ minds to less pressure,...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Want Fresh Veggies This Summer? Better Sign Up Now</title>
		<link>http://feeds.earth911.com/~r/earth911/~3/Ll3sDIhJqic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marisa McNatt</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Growing season may feel far away as winter lingers. But if having fresh, local vegetables throughout the summer sounds like a delicious idea, now is the time to consider a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
Here’s how it works:...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Jeweler Uses Recycled Goods to Create High-end Designs</title>
		<link>http://feeds.earth911.com/~r/earth911/~3/b5GTwATasxk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine J. Chen</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the 1953 classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn Monroe sings “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,&#8221; a sentiment shared by women around the world. Glittering and glamorous, diamonds may just be a girl’s best friend, but are they...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>EPA Head: Environmental Protection is Good for Economic Growth</title>
		<link>http://feeds.earth911.com/~r/earth911/~3/ib0OCft0nVY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Granger</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In Monday&#8217;s speech to the National Press Club, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson underscored a consistent message: Environmental protection helps to improve economic growth, not impedes it.
Jackson went on to say environmental spending is...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>‘De-urbanizing’ Could Be Detroit’s Survival Plan</title>
		<link>http://feeds.earth911.com/~r/earth911/~3/zS8LQi_5DA0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Wills</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a plan of reverse urbanization of sorts, Detroit is plowing down its infamous crumbling defunct neighborhoods to make way for greener pastures, literally.
The city is drawing up a radical, wide-scale plan that calls for demolition of abandoned...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>DOE Announces $100M for Green Tech Research</title>
		<link>http://feeds.earth911.com/~r/earth911/~3/NHlRUPsR5zc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Wills</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week, the Department of Energy announced that $100 million in stimulus funding will be allocated to further promote green innovation in the technology sphere.
“This is about unleashing the American innovation machine to solve the energy and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Reef Sandals Feature Ugandan Designs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Brown</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last year, we reported on a great community project underway in Uganda in which women make colorful beads and jewelry out of recycled paper as a way of earning much-needed income.
With help from Barbara Moller and the newly created nonprofit  Paper...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>New System Rates Home Energy Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://feeds.earth911.com/~r/earth911/~3/bm-DrNK90-M/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Granger</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Similar to the miles per gallon rating for cars, a group in Oregon has created Energy Performance Score to allow home buyers a way of measuring the energy efficiency of their new house.
For all participating homes, both the energy usage and carbon...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Learn to ‘Shift Your Habit’</title>
		<link>http://feeds.earth911.com/~r/earth911/~3/p6gIQkfzz0Q/</link>
		<comments>http://earth911.com/news/2010/03/08/learn-to-shift-your-habit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Wills</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;The true heart and soul of living green is efficiency.&#8221;
The opening line of Elizabeth Rogers&#8217; new book Shift Your Habit says it perfectly &#8211; the paradoxical combination of going green and actually saving money is actually...<div class="feedflare">
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