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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>Bakken Oil Production Heating Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bakken Oil Production Heating Earth The image below, acquired by NASA on November 12, 2012, shows gas flares burning,  a byproduct of oil production in North Dakota. Natural gas production from Bakken shale has increased more than 20-fold between 2007 and 2010. However, due to insufficient natural gas pipeline capacity and processing facilities in the Bakken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peugeot Citroen Air Hybrid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peugeot Citroen Air Hybrid &#160;  knock 45 per cent off fuel bills for an average motorist  when driving in towns and cities costs could be slashed by as much as 80 % expensive batteries will no longer be needed Air power would be used solely for city use, automatically activated below 43mph The system works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Solar Project of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar PV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ African Solar Project of the Year Samsung&#8217;s Solar Powered Internet Schools opens up opportunities to millions of students in Africa. Easily accessible computer labs encourage students, like Lefa in the video below, to dream big and think beyond what they thought was initially possible. The internet provides a future for Aferican youth, beyond what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Tiny House on Wheels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Go Green]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DIY Tiny House on Wheels Austin Hay has spent the past couple of years, building a 12&#8242;x7&#8242; home on a trailer frame &#8211; a DIY mobile home. He has finally completed his home, including a full kitchen, DIY sofa-bed, nearly full-sized shower and composting toilet (doorknobs and solar to come). &#160; Austin hopes to live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Energy Save Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Save Energy- Save Money &#8211; Easy, low cost ways to save energy and money. &#160; lower your hot water heater temperature (to 140F to eliminate the risk of Legionnaires&#8217; Disease), and insulate the tank and the pipes reduce thermostat &#8211; dress for the cooler temps &#8211; use a programmable thermostat. Dispose of old thermostats that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA Animation Five Year Temps</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the NASA Website: The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880.The finding sustains a trend that has seen the 21st century experience nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record. NASA&#8217;s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York released an analysis of how temperatures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biofuel Demo Site at St Marys Cement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[algae]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biofuel Demo Site at St Marys Cement Toronto-based Pond Biofuels has a pilot project that pumps smokestack emissions from St. Marys Cement plant and feeds algae that are grown in large tanks. The algae is then harvested, dried and burned in the plant&#8217;s kiln to displace the burning of petroleum coke. It&#8217;s a first of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Vehicle (EV) Battery Reuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[electric vehicles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nissan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electric Vehicle (EV) Battery Reuse Battery systems in electric vehicles are expected to outlast the vehicles themselves. Thus at the end of the car&#8217;s life, the battery system should still retain 70% of it&#8217;s storage capacity. These used battery systems would not be strong enough to power another new vehicle but could they be used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Puts A Banker in Charge of Natural Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who Puts A Banker in Charge of Natural Resources? Someone who needs a puppet to push their Tar Sands agenda, that&#8217;s who. To quote the Natural Resources Canada website &#8220;Joe Oliver was elected to the House of Commons for the first time in May 2011. He was appointed Minister of Natural Resources on May 18, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming – Is It Too Late?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Durban]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenterrafirma.com/wordpress/?p=899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Warming &#8211; Is It Too Late? The Independent published an article this week from a group of Russian scientists who found: &#8220;Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming Point of No Return</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenterrafirma.com/wordpress/?p=894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Warming Point of No Return International Energy Agency warns that dangerous climate change will be essentially irreversible within five years. Drastic changes to energy and industrial practices are needed, the IEA said in its World Energy Outlook. Such a shift looks unlikely given the current economic environment. Emerging economies continue to focus on cheap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Tax Passes in Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenterrafirma.com/wordpress/?p=892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Carbon Tax Passes in Australia Starting in July 2012, Australia will introduce a Carbon Tax of $23 per tonne for the countries 500 largest companies. The price will float, based on market pricing, starting in 2015. Money generated by the Carbon Tax, will go towards increased pensions and household payments, to offset costs increases to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Retrofits for Zero Impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bank Retrofits for Zero Impact TD Canada Trust is retrofitting a branch office in London Ontario to achieve Zero Impact from an electrical perspective. The bank already has a Zero Impact branch in Florida, but that branch was designed and built to spec. This will be their first Retrofit down to a net-zero level. Retrofits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Population Hits 7 Billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Population Hits 7 Billion The world&#8217;s population is expected to hit 7 Billion this week, on Oct 31, 2011. That&#8217;s 1 Billion more people in the last 12 years (1999), 2 Billion over 24 years (1987). The earth had only 3 Billion people in 1960. Obviously the world can not support such runaway human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Powering Job Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solar Powering Job Market  According to a new report release October 17, 2011 by The Solar Foundation, as of August 2011 the USA has 100,237 people employed in solar jobs. This represents a 6.8% growth  year-over-year, whereas the overall job growth for the country was a slim 0.7%.  Highlights of the report include: -         100,237 [...]]]></description>
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