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		<title>before Halloween comes National Weatherization Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right folks, get excited! Before you don your costumes, before you eat candy til your belly hurts, before you go out pumpkin smashing, do something weatherization-related for the good of the Earth. Friday, Oct. 30 &#8230; coming to a community near you &#8230; &#8220;celebrate the positive potential of residential weatherization and our green economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=263&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Blog Action Day, I am back. And I want to talk about climate change.
Today I read this post on Grist that really underscores just how bad things are getting for us. But what spoke to me most was that amid the deterioration, experts continue to speak to the public in calm, even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=255&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Students prefer eco-friendly colleges – what a generation!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of college applicants say a school’s green record would influence their enrollment decision, according to a Princeton Review survey [PDF]. To determine how eco-friendly colleges are, prospective students should check out these lists:

the Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll”
Sierra‘s full list of rankings for 135 colleges that are &#8220;the most eco-enlightened&#8221;
the College Sustainability Report Card - which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=245&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stockholm trash chutes – futuristic AND eco-friendly!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Time &#8211; why, oh why, does the US not invest in such amazing infrastructure?? We could be getting rid of trash the way the Jetson&#8217;s did. Click the link to watch the video and start getting jealous &#8230;

The coolest part of Hammarby Sjostad, a new eco-neighborhood of Stockholm, is the trash. It gets sucked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=242&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NRDC rates beaches by water quality – how clean is your beach?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweltering heat is still sweeping much of the south/west and peaking through the storms in the rest of country &#8230; so beaches are still a destination for most of us!
But just how clean is your beach? Find out at the NRDC site here: Testing the Waters 2009.
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According to this &#8230; Newport Beach (CA) fares better [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=238&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California Coastal Cleanup Day conflicts with Jewish holiday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah yeah, I know. Who cares &#8230; can&#8217;t win &#8216;em all. The 25th anniversary of the California Coastal Cleanup Day is set for Saturday, Sept. 19th at beaches across the state. Go participate, if you can. I will actually be in my home state, where my permanent address is, where I am a registered voter. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=232&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cash for clunkers, or my plan to save the auto industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many of you have heard about this government program that offers you money back for trading in your old car for a newer, more gas efficient model. The Sierra Club explains it briefly:
Just over a month ago, President Obama signed into law the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), aka &#8220;Cash for Clunkers.&#8221; Between now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=229&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petition for clean water – yes, it’s dirty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret we are having water problems. Jon Stewart had Robert Glennon (water expert extraordinaire) on to talk about his new book, Unquenchable.
New Jersey is having water contamination issues. Hawaii (of all places) is having a drinking water shortage. And dozens of less fortunate countries are in need of clean water, a cause that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=221&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DC bill adds plastic shopping bag charge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once read this article about this chick in a British town that encouraged all the locals to switch to cloth, reusable bags. Amazing. And now Mayor Fenty in DC is encouraging residents to do the same!
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Mayor Adrian Fenty signed into law today the bill that will establish a 5 cent fee charged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=219&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYC volunteers help public housing residents recycle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times published a feature about a group of brave and lovely women who are going door to door in Morningside Heights teaching people living in public housing to recycle. It is amazing to me that so many buildings in so many urban cities do not have recycling programs, considering the large number [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pandemicgreen.com&blog=3549526&post=214&subd=pandemicgreen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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