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	<description>Common sense, sustainable suggestions &amp; DIY projects to reduce your impact on mother earth.</description>
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		<title>Future Friendly Air Conditioning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Future Friendly Air Conditioning Scientists at the US&#8217;s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have created a method of air conditioning that could reduce the operating cost (electricity bill) by up to 90%. The technology called desiccant-enhanced evaporative air conditioner or DEVap, uses environmentally friendly saline solution rather than conventional refrigerants, and a thin membrane, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Wind Turbines Save Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Offshore Wind Turbines Save Lives The States bordering the Great Lakes, and Ontario, are putting the processes in place that will allow offshore development of wind farms. And the NIMBY cry can be heard all along the shoreline  &#8211; you can&#8217;t ruin my perfect view of the evening sunsets! Elitist cottage owners ( I say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homemade Micro Hydro Generator</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend tested their homemade micro hydro generator this weekend, and everything worked according to plan. You can see the system in this YouTube video: Homemade Micro Hydro Generator He recorded 46VDC (open circuit voltage) and 2.6 amps at 12 volts when connected to a deep cycle battery. It charged a battery from 12.1 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar PV – Too Much of a Good Thing for Ontario</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feed-in tariff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar PV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Solar PV &#8211; Too Much of a Good Thing for Ontario In October 2009 the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) began accepting applications for their newly announce Feed-in Tariff (FiT). Within 2 months they had received 2,400 applications, and released their first 700 contract offers. Now, nine months later, the OPA has received over 14,000 applications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Panel Installation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar modules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar panels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar PV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Solar Panel Installation Here are the steps we took to install my 3.6kW solar photovoltaic (PV) rooftop system, with pictures. Overview of Solar PV System 3.6kW &#8211; 18 200 watt solar panels rooftop racking system combiner box with DC fuses SMA Sunny Boy 4kW Grid-tie Inverter Electrical meter faceplate and cutoff switch MC-4 cables and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Earth Hour Every Hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earth hour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making Every Hour Earth Hour From Earth Hour Site Turning off lights on March 27 is great, but we can all make a difference for the environment 365 days a year! Here are 10 easy ways you can start: 1. Leave the car at home. If you have an errand to run close by or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung and Ontario to Announce Solar and Wind Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samsung and Ontario to Announce Solar and Wind Deal The Premier of Ontario is set to announce a multibillion dollar deal to a consortium led by Samsung Group to build renewable energy equipment including wind turbines and solar photovoltaic panels. The deal, which could be worth up to C$7 billion, will be unveiled on Thursday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Solar Water Heater</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIY Solar Water Heater DIY solar projects including solar ovens, solar pool heaters, solar PV panels, solar air heaters and batch solar water heaters are fairly simple projects to complete on your own. We recently came across another solar water heater, non-batch, that we like. This project is a bit more involved and will require [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grow Fresh Air with Houseplants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ecoFriendly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grow Your Fresh Air With Houseplants As we made are homes and workplaces more energy efficient and air tight, the quality of indoor air greatly decreased. Use these houseplants to remove indoor air toxins. Plants are ordered by their ability to remove chemical toxins, how easy they are to grow and their resistance to pests. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copenhagen is Over, Now What</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copenhagen is Over, Now What &#8220;If (former Vice President) Dick Cheney can argue that even a 1 percent chance of a terrorist attack is 100 percent justification for preemptive action, then surely, when scientists tell us that climate change is nearly a 100 percent certainty, we ought to be able to stand together&#8230;and join in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPA Issues 700 MicroFit Contracts for Solar Rooftops</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feed-in tariff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FiT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPA Issues 700 MicroFit Contracts for Solar Rooftops The Ontario Power Authority issued 700 contracts today (Dec 16) for MicroFit Solar PV systems. These solar installations will be paid 80.2 cents per kilowatt hour (kWH) for the next 20 years, for every kWh of power produced. The OPA started to accept contract applications on October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weather vs Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weather vs Climate Weather &#8211; what&#8217;s happening outside your door today, tomorrow and next week. Boy it&#8217;s hot (or cold) today. Looks like a storm is coming&#8230; Climate &#8211; What&#8217;s happening all around, not just outside YOUR door, on a Long Term basis &#8211; Yearly or Decades. Boy, we sure had a lot of hurricanes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany Posts Record Solar Installations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany Posts Record Solar Installations (Reuters) &#8211; Germany will add a record of up to 3 gigawatt (GW) of photovoltaic capacity this year due to unexpectedly strong demand in the final months of 2009, the head of Germany&#8217;s BSW solar industry association said on Monday. Carsten Koernig told Reuters the late surge would take the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Climate Science Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cop15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copenhagen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK Climate Science Statement From: The Guardian Partial text of the joint statement from the Met Office, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Royal Society on the state of the science of climate change ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference. Please use the Guardian link above for the full text. The UK is at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Earth Countdown to Copenhagen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[votearth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voteearth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vote Earth Countdown to Copenhagen This is your chance to tell the world leaders you want a deal, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009. You can vote at the Earth Hour site. Similar Posts: Earth Hour 2009 &#8211; Vote UK Climate Science Statement COP15 &#8211; Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Dec [...]]]></description>
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