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	<title>Environmental Impact</title>
	<link>http://blog.nateleen.com</link>
	<description>It's not easy being green...</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Small change, big difference</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/09/28/small-change-big-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a lot of commercials lately for products that are being touted as environmentally-friendly that don&#8217;t really hit the mark (example: &#8220;Ford F-150, the most fuel-efficient truck in its class&#8221;).  I roll my eyes and hope that the American public doesn&#8217;t fall for the fake sell. With gas prices in flux, I doubt they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorting them out</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/07/14/sorting-them-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/07/14/sorting-them-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who has clicked YES in the past three years to every &#8220;sign this petition&#8221; offer regarding climate change regulation, I&#8217;m a little confused. There are too many groups, alliances, and coalitions to keep straight, and I&#8217;m not sure what they&#8217;re all really doing.  I&#8217;ve signed many an online petition aimed to pressure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring me my throne!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/06/06/bring-me-my-throne/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/06/06/bring-me-my-throne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not many women who&#8217;ve recently turned 30 can brag that their husbands gave them the gift of a toilet for the big day.  I&#8217;m not making fun of Nate; in fact, I asked for a toilet.  I&#8217;ve been thinking lately about upgrading a water-using appliance/utility to use less H20 in light of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powering your home with alternative energy</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/04/20/powering-your-home-with-alternative-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/04/20/powering-your-home-with-alternative-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In recent days I&#8217;ve started reading a book called Earth: The Sequel, which offers an exciting perspective on current efforts, both public and private, to &#8220;reinvent energy.&#8221;  With a renewed sense of hope in mind, I did a little web-surfing this morning and found an article with some exciting news about our regional power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light green?  Dark green?  Faux green?</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/04/09/light-green-dark-green-faux-green/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2008/04/09/light-green-dark-green-faux-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though we&#8217;ve been getting a lot more rain in Atlanta lately, I&#8217;ve clearly been in a blogging drought.  Life has gotten in the way, but hopefully a revised shorter-entry approach will get me back on track.
Lord knows, there is a lot to talk about!  While critical questions about climate change have gotten little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Offsets: Part I</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/12/14/carbon-offsets-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/12/14/carbon-offsets-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon offsets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a few intense weeks of grad school final projects and exams, I am back in action!  There has been so much news regarding climate change in the weeks since I last wrote, but I want to focus these next three entries on an innovative concept that has been around for a while: carbon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of Envirogirl</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/10/30/confessions-of-envirogirl/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/10/30/confessions-of-envirogirl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mutterings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One could say that we&#8217;re living in a fascinating moment in history.  I would also say that it is overwhelming.  In the past two years,  spurred by a horrible natural disaster in Hurricane Katrina and the release of Al Gore&#8217;s An Inconvenient Truth, U.S. media headlines have begun to swim with mention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Topic: Plastic Bags</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/10/07/hot-topic-plastic-bags/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/10/07/hot-topic-plastic-bags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Plastic Bags]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Few Statistics

Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide, with the US alone burning through 100 billion.1
Producing 100 billion plastic bags takes 12 million barrels of oil2
 Worldwide, 1% of all plastic bags are recycled3
Estimates for the amount of time it takes a typical plastic bag to break [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Action: Junkmail</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/09/24/easy-action-junkmail/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/09/24/easy-action-junkmail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Junk Mail Reduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Along with more heavily researched issues, I want to post some concise entries that deal with &#8220;easy actions&#8221; you can take to curb waste and reduce your environmental impact.  Reducing junk mail has never been an issue I thought I had any control over, but an article in the NY Times has me thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water 3: Faucet vs. Bottle</title>
		<link>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/09/09/water-3-faucet-vs-bottle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nateleen.com/2007/09/09/water-3-faucet-vs-bottle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[    Statistics:

24% of the bottled water on the U.S. market, including Pepsi&#8217;s Aquafina and Coke&#8217;s Dasani, is filtered tap water.1
The San Francisco Department of Public Health has determined that their tap water costs the consumer $.03 per gallon, over 300 times less than the same amount of a typical bottled water2
A Brita [...]]]></description>
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