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		<title>Canadian Carbon Offset Quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news!!   Carbonzero has just been rated one of the top vendors of carbon offsets in Canada.
I&#8217;m particularly proud of our rank as the only provider of Made-in-Canada offsets to meet the highest &#8220;Strong Performance&#8221; category in the report written by the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute.
Carbonzero has worked hard in ensuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Activists Can be Total Failures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article written by Joseph Jolley in the Guelph Mercury.  (Thanks, Aiden Abram!)
July 07, 2009
JOSEPH JOLLEY
In his book, How to Ruin Your Life, Ben Stein wrote a unique step-by-step guide on how a person can be a total failure. This provided the reader an opportunity to measure up their own life against Ben&#8217;s list, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clever Exchange by Anti-Nuke Folks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through my days at the Sierra Club Canada I&#8217;ve gotten to know quite a few environmentalists who have campaigned against the spread of nuclear power.  This recent Facebook exchange occurred after the Ontario government announced a suspension on the development of nuclear power in the province.  It happened to coincide with a recent mishap involving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to control your garbage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning the fine folks of my fair city of Toronto woke up to a strike by city workers, including the outside workers responsible for garbage pickup.

This is as good as a time as any to provide few tips on how to manage your waste when you don't have he convenience of regular door-to-door pickup.]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon pricing debates are ridiculous: France</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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It wasn&#8217;t long ago that policy analysts in North America were circling around each other arguing which was the better policy for pricing carbon: Implementing a cap-and-trade system that would regulate large emitters but give them the flexiility to meet them by trading emissions credits; or setting a carbon tax on all greenhouse gas-producing fuels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Business Case for Sustainability</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface, one of the world&#8217;s largest manufacturer of carpet, talks about the business case for sustainability.
Interface&#8217;s story is inspiring, particularly as they recognize:
Business and Industry is (1) the largest culprit causing the decline of the biosphere and (2) the only institution large, pervasive and powerful enough to lead humankind out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methane Bomb in the Arctic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Permafrost &#8211; ice in polar regions that remain throughout the year &#8211; is melting.  In addition to having an impact on surface structures, like creating drunken forests, the permafrost has also been trapping enormous pools of methane, another potent global warming pollutant that is 21 times more effective than carbon dioxide in warming the climate.
With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Renewable Energy Plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Webecoist looks at 10 abandoned energy plants that once produced clean, renewable power but, through neglect and/or changes in policy or business fortunes, have since gone under or have been decommissioned.
10 Abondoned Renewable Energy Plants
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		<title>Google Using Goats for Lawnmowing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 12:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Following the lead of the City of Los Angeles and Yahoo, Google recently employed a new landscaping service to its grounds in Mountain View, California:  Goats.

Instead of using conventional carbon-spewing lawncare equipment, Google has been employing this crew of ungulate lawnmowers to keep weeds and brush low while mowing and fertilizing the lawn.  It turns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Corporations are Going Green (according to The Onion)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 20:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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