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		<title>Compost: The Breakdown and Renewal of our Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Askaripour</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love composting. Started about a year ago in my backyard. And this summer, I actually built a little compost pen. What’s composting? It’s basically a way of recycling vegetables, fruits, egg shells, and any sort of raw, organic matter. And when this organic matter is placed in a heap or in a container, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing away with paper towels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an admission to make. I actually have a roll of paper towels in my place. Granted, they are the 100% recycled kind, but I am still guilty of something I do not really believe in. My roll is almost ½ way gone, and truth be told, I believe I purchased them in early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Internal Combustion Engine, As We Know it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Li-Ion batteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil is not infinite]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The internal combustion engine has been with us in a practical form since about the late 1800’s, or thereabouts. After that, almost our entire industrial culture has been built around it in some form or another, most recognizable as a means of transportation for the supply of goods, as a personal way to travel, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Finish what the Woodstock Generation Started?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DDT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 40th anniversary of Woodstock has come and gone, and the 50th anniversary is 10 years down the road. Peace, love music and drugs were the mainstay of the original music festival in 1969, but something else came out of that, something that was about as cosmic as the festival was itself, and it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is going nuclear so bad?</title>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/nuclear-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That’s a question for the ages, isn’t it? All this talk now about nuclear power being great and then again, nuclear power being not so great. Is it a green technology or a spawn of Satan? Is it a world beating new age way to make friendly power, or a dangerous source of energy production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GaGas Fracking, health and safety need not apply</title>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/gas-fracking/</link>
		<comments>http://mindpetals.com/gas-fracking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Something insidious is happening just below ground, affecting potentially millions of people in the United States. Reported health problems, polluted drinking water and other safety hazards, have been documented using a process called gas fracking (or fracing as the actual patent for this technique is spelled), and it appears to be an accepted technique for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going green from top to bottom</title>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/going-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 22:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are lucky to live in this age of enlightenment. Where visionaries can see the future, and instead of waiting around for it to show up, they take matters into their own hands and try to change it for the better. The biggest case in point with all of this is the new White House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic bags, can we get rid of them please?</title>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/plastic-bags-kill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 22:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Plastic is here and here to stay, I’m afraid, and so we will have to deal with it. As much of a scourge it is to the environment, it has many good and positive uses, particularly in the medical industry where using plastics have no doubt stopped the spread of disease and have saved countless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bio Fuels vs The Environment &#8211; Here’s the story</title>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/biofuels-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://mindpetals.com/biofuels-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about a firestorm brewing, one of the mainstays of the environmental movement, which are bio fuels, are now under attack by…these same environmentalists who advocated its use in the first place! What? How can this be? Aren’t bio fuels supposed to be one of the answers for getting rid of pollution and CO2 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Cells and what’s out there, here’s the skinny</title>
		<link>http://mindpetals.com/solar-cells/</link>
		<comments>http://mindpetals.com/solar-cells/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dale Y the Green Guy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you listen closely, you can almost here the music and a famous announcer saying, Da da da da, Solar Cells, Ready for Prime Time! And with it being the year 2009, right now might be the time to turn those dreams of solar cells into reality. First of all, even in this recession that [...]]]></description>
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