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		<title>Step Forward &#124; No Impact Week: October 18-24</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/15/step-forward-no-impact-week-october-18-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you’ve heard of the ‘No Impact Man,&#8217; Colin Beavan, who, in 2006, with his wife and daughter, went off the grid in New York City to minimize their negative impact on the environment.
This incredible experiment, which inspired a blog, a book and a movie, has now inspired a challenge to which more than 2000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Forward &#124; Plant Seeds for Change in a Park(ing) Space in Your City</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/09/10/step-forward-plant-seeds-for-change-in-a-parking-space-in-your-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
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Friday, September 18th is Park(ing)Day. This annual, one-day, worldwide, non-commercial, awareness-raising enterprise is the brainchild of Rebar , a San Francisco art and design studio &#8220;operating at the intersection of art, design and activism.&#8221; Park(ing) Day began in 2005 when Rebar&#8217;s principals rolled out sod and added a park bench to a single, metered parking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco-Roundup &#124; 7.11.09</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/07/11/eco-roundup-71109/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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Singapore Becomes a Model for Water Technology and Reuse
Adopting chemical-free, membrane technology to purify recycled water has relieved the island-state from concerns that scarcity of fresh water would threaten its long-term well-being.
Moreover, Singapore is working to become a research hub for recycled water technologies that could provide water-starved populations elsewhere with environmentally-friendly sources of fresh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Forward &#124; Take a Staycation!</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/07/09/step-forward-take-a-staycation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Design your dream vacation at home. Consider a vacation with no packing, no airports, no stress and less environmental impact.
A staycation is an economical and environmental alternative to a conventional vacation of travel. It&#8217;s a vacation spent experiencing the great things that home and close to home provide.

There are lots of reasons to stacation: financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Forward &#124; Green Up Your Vacations</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/07/02/step-forward-green-up-your-vacations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.&#8221; &#8212; Miriam Beard
There are various shades of green travel. To find yours, start by taking your growing environmental consciousness along on your trip. Apply the same effort to preserve and protect the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash for Clunkers: Boon for the Environment or the Auto Industry?</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/06/22/cash-for-clunkers-boon-for-the-environment-or-the-auto-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated 3/23: See below.

These days, thereâ€™s green, and then thereâ€™s green. In a time of both economic and environmental challenges, one would hope that the two might go hand-in-hand, but as weâ€™ve seen in the past when push comes to shove, pocketbook green often carries the day.
So it seems with the Cash-for-Clunkers bill now circulating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Forward &#124; Dump the Pump: Today, June 18</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/06/18/step-forward-dump-the-pump/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/06/18/step-forward-dump-the-pump/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the summertime more people take to the roads for vacations and other summer activities. This means more automobile emissions, making summer the perfect time to think about public transportation.

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and transit systems across the country will celebrate the fourth annual National Dump the Pump day today, Thursday, June 18, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to Introduce Higher Fuel Efficiency, Lower Emission Standards for US Autos</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/05/19/obama-to-introduce-higher-fuel-efficiency-lower-emission-standards-for-us-autos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama is expected to introduce new, national standards for reducing automobile emissions and improving fuel efficiency today, thanks to a milestone agreement that has broad support among environmentalists, the auto industry and consumers.
Under the new rules, passenger car efficiency will reportedly increase from the current 27.5 miles per gallon (mpg) to 42 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Cars May See Sky Time in the Near Future</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/01/13/flying-cars-may-see-sky-time/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/01/13/flying-cars-may-see-sky-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science, Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We ran across this article from the business blog of a new website for new businesses called LaunchLab (LaunchLab.co.uk).Â  It&#8217;s about flying cars and the concept has been around for several decades.Â Â The technology is well advanced and flying cars can, indeed, happen!
Cars Might Fly, by Dan Mathews
Sometimes an invention comes along that is so valuable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMW Plug-in Mini-Coopers To Be Available</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/11/12/bmw-plug-in-mini-coopers-to-be-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Steinman</dc:creator>
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Green Patriot car guy Paul Scott reports that BMW is making its Mini-Cooper plug-ins available in select areas of the country.
The web was buzzing last week with stories about BMW&#8217;s Mini E. To recap, BMW will be leasing 500 Mini Es from dealers in New York, New Jersey and Southern California starting some time early [...]]]></description>
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