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		<title>Living on a giant crusty earthen raft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, there&#8217;s been a lot of earthquakes lately.  Haiti back in January; Chile, last weekend; Japan, back in February; California, constantly for about the past month; and Taiwan yesterday.   I know many scientists will say &#8220;these events are not related&#8221;, but, as I reminded my friends yesterday, people act like we don&#8217;t live on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOME STAR: This is kind of a big deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several energy and climate bills floating around in the Congress right now, including the Kerry/Boxer (or Kerry/Graham/Lieberman) Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (which has been in the works since &#8211; but not because &#8211; I thanked them here) ; the Bingaman/Murkowski American Clean Energy Leadership Act, or ACELA; the Cantwell/Collins CLEAR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to get a home energy rating?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Well if so, let me know, because I&#8217;m at a conference with several hundred home energy raters this week!
First of all, you may want to know what a &#8220;home energy rating&#8221; consists of.  The funny thing is, there&#8217;s actually LOTS of home energy ratings.  There&#8217;s the HERS, which is given by ResNet, which is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greendesigncollective.com/blog/2010/02/want-to-get-a-home-energy-rating/</link>
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		<title>Living in Los Angeles Without a Car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like a very far away experience for me, now that I&#8217;ve been living in Portland for nearly 9 months (aka the sky has been Pantone Warm Grey since October), but before my current situation I was living in Los Angeles for grad school.  And, as you might have picked up from the title [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greendesigncollective.com/blog/2010/02/living-in-los-angeles-without-a-car/</link>
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		<title>Unplug, or the Polar Bear Gets it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AKA, the Greenlite at Dartmouth University energy saving program.  First, go to Greenlite&#8217;s home page here.
What do you see?  Do you see a happy polar bear, playing with a butterfly?

Perhaps he&#8217;s taking a nap next to his &#8220;friends&#8221;, the baby seal and the baby polar bear&#8230;

Or, maybe you see a polar bear that&#8217;s running&#8230; you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greendesigncollective.com/blog/2010/02/unplug-or-the-polar-bear-gets-it/</link>
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		<title>Q: What&#8217;s wee, made of straw bale, and awesome?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A:  The ModCell Straw-Bale Pre-Fab home!
File this under &#8220;better late than never&#8221;&#8230; I just learned about this house and knew I had to talk about it here because it embodies many of the things that I love in one tidy, very livable package.  Observe:

It&#8217;s a house, which is great, since I love house design;
It&#8217;s made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Greenest Building Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the California Building Standards Commission unanimously adopted the first-in-the-nation mandatory Green Building Standards Code, also known as &#8220;CALGREEN&#8221;.  The new standards take effect starting January 1, 2011 and will require all new buildings in the state to be more energy efficient and environmentally responsible.  The new CALGREEN code will require:

a 20 percent mandatory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greendesigncollective.com/blog/2010/01/americas-greenest-building-code/</link>
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		<title>Apparently I&#8217;m not the only one who left California for Oregon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of El Niño, scientists think that might be a factor in why San Francisco&#8217;s famous sea lions have abandoned Pier 39 and maybe, just maybe, headed up to the Oregon coast for a &#8220;vacation&#8221;.  On October 23, 2009, over 1,700 sea lions were counted at their regular hang out (just down the dock from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greendesigncollective.com/blog/2010/01/apparently-im-not-the-only-one-who-left-california-for-oregon/</link>
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		<title>Why cold weather does not equal global &#8220;cooling&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This graph is from the NY Times Dot Earth blog written by Andrew C. Revkin.  Mr. Revkin mentioned a few days ago that while, yes, it is pretty darn cold out there, this current activity is not a result of the Earth&#8217;s warming, nor is it an indication that the Earth is cooling.  It&#8217;s more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greendesigncollective.com/blog/2010/01/why-cold-weather-does-not-equal-global-cooling/</link>
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		<title>Climate Killers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, and Happy New Decade everyone!  Here&#8217;s to hoping we can make big strides this year in our efforts to save energy, reduce waste, and generally try to keep the Earth as hospitable to human life as possible.
Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, there are some pretty vocal people who are still working hard [...]]]></description>
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