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		<title>Come see us in Miami, Ann Arbor or Shanghai</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/08/30/come-see-us-in-miami-ann-arbor-or-shanghai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Deb Lovig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve got three more LED City Council Meetings on the calendar, including the first in China. Come join us in Miami, Ann Arbor or Shanghai. We’ve got a great group of speakers lined up for Oct. 1 at the Miami Art Museum.
You’ll hear from the Cities of Raleigh and Ann Arbor, as well as Miami/Dade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from LED City Council meeting in Welland, Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/08/05/postcard-from-led-city-council-meeting-in-welland-ontario/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/08/05/postcard-from-led-city-council-meeting-in-welland-ontario/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Deb Lovig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LEDs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Welland, Ontario yesterday for the LED City Council meeting, where a variety of local officials and LED lighting gurus came together to share their experiences with other officials considering LED lighting for their cities or universities.
Here are some pics of Welland LED City Council Meeting speakers in front of one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has your city tried any creative financing deals for LED Lighting? Let us know</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/07/08/has-your-city-tried-any-creative-financing-deals-for-led-lighting-let-us-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/07/08/has-your-city-tried-any-creative-financing-deals-for-led-lighting-let-us-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Deb Lovig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[financing deals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ledcityblog.com/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been upfront over the last few years that the purchase cost of LED lights is generally higher, sometimes a lot higher than traditional lights. This stumbling block slows the adoption of LED lighting and prevents cities from starting to reap the energy and maintenance costs they can realize with quality LED lights. While we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Durham, NC joins LED City program by installing LED lights in city’s oldest parking garage</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/06/22/durham-nc-joins-led-city-program-by-installing-led-lights-in-citys-oldest-parking-garage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/06/22/durham-nc-joins-led-city-program-by-installing-led-lights-in-citys-oldest-parking-garage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Ginny Skalski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LED Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parking Garages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corcoran Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtown Durham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy efficient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LED blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LED City]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ledcityblog.com/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1964, the city of Durham, NC, began construction on its first parking garage. The Corcoran Parking Garage is still heavily used more than 45 years later, providing daytime parking for downtown workers and evening parking for theater-goers at the Durham Performing Arts Center and even baseball fans at the nearby Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Renovations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bright Idea for America: CBS News features LED lighting</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/06/21/a-bright-idea-for-america-cbs-news-features-led-lighting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/06/21/a-bright-idea-for-america-cbs-news-features-led-lighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Ginny Skalski</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ledcityblog.com/?p=185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CBS News recently visited some of the top LED lighting manufacturers in the industry – including Cree – to discuss the demise of Thomas Edison’s light bulb and the rise of LED Lighting.
The resulting 6-minute news package is packed with some good information about why CFLs aren’t the solution to the upcoming incandescent ban (many incandescent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you recommend some LED Christmas lights that perform well?</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/06/07/can-you-recommend-some-led-christmas-lights-that-perform-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/06/07/can-you-recommend-some-led-christmas-lights-that-perform-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Deb Lovig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LEDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday lights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how-to]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LED Christmas lights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ledcityblog.com/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the days getting longer and hotter it’s the perfect time to consider holiday decorating. Crazy talk, you say? Well, one of participants in the LED City program wants guidance on which LED strand lights (Christmas lights) perform best.
My experience with LED lighting in the holiday and festive lighting application is not relevant. I bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cree to provide LED lighting for kitchens in new Habitat for Humanity homes</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/06/02/cree-to-provide-led-lighting-for-kitchens-in-new-habitat-for-humanity-homes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/06/02/cree-to-provide-led-lighting-for-kitchens-in-new-habitat-for-humanity-homes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Ginny Skalski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LED Cities]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ledcityblog.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cree LED lights will soon light up kitchens in thousands of homes built by Habitat for Humanity. Last month,Cree announced its three-year, $1.5 million pledge to Habitat for Humanity International to provide our newest LED downlight for the kitchens in all new Habitat homes built in the United States.
Specifically we’ll be providing our CR6™ downlight, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Durham Deploys LED Garage Lighting</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/05/20/durham-deploys-led-garage-lighting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/05/20/durham-deploys-led-garage-lighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 18:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Deb Lovig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LED Cities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LED City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LED lighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Durham (NC) joined the LED City® program today, announcing deployment of more than 500 LED garage lights as a strategic step toward carbon emissions reduction.
I’ve been working with Tobin Freid for the past couple years. She’s the Durham City and County sustainability manager and she’s enthusiastic about LED lighting.
Tobin believes, along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When in Las Vegas…Learn about LED lighting</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/05/07/when-in-las-vegas%e2%80%a6learn-about-led-lighting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/05/07/when-in-las-vegas%e2%80%a6learn-about-led-lighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 16:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Deb Lovig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tradeshows]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Lighting Technology Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digi-key]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ledcityblog.com/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year’s Lightfair International (May 12-14) in Las Vegas offers a new level of informational and educational opportunities with regard to LED lighting. While I would love to say these opportunities are happening during the regular conference sessions – we are all trying to get more LED sessions into the line-up – it seems that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LED lighting (almost) anywhere you look</title>
		<link>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/05/04/led-lighting-almost-anywhere-you-look/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ledcityblog.com/2010/05/04/led-lighting-almost-anywhere-you-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Deb Lovig</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LED Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tradeshows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LED lighting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ledcityblog.com/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you’re overly interested in LED lighting, you seem to find it everywhere. Okay, that’s an exaggeration but not a huge stretch.
Fourteen Cree LED zealots, in Frankfurt for the L+B show in April, got an extended stay due to the volcanic ash cloud that grounded flights to and from a large portion of Europe.
Faced with [...]]]></description>
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