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	<description>a journal on low-impact, low-stress living in the modern age</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lollapalooza goes green</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/08/13/lollapalooza-goes-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The one and only time I went to the every-20-something-must-go-once Lollapalooza rock festival, in Corpus Christi late 1997, it was to see Tool with a few friends who only wanted to smoke out once they got inside the gates. I was there to hear some music and avoid the mosh pit fights that went on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Olympics: One, errr&#8230;Two Worlds, One Dream?</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/08/11/the-olympics-one-errrtwo-worlds-one-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The motto for the Beijing Olympics is &#8216;One World One Dream&#8217;, but the Chinese officials in charge of cleaning up Beijing for the eyes of the world clearly didn&#8217;t want some things to be part of the &#8216;One World&#8217; plan. With homes demolished to make way for a cleaner image and ten-foot high walls erected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Funniest Green &#8216;Viral&#8217; Videos</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/08/08/the-ten-funniest-green-viral-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just sharing a post from the Daily Green website, they&#8217;ve collected what they think are the ten funniest viral (made popular by word-of-mouth) videos with a &#8216;green&#8217; them. I&#8217;ve already seen most of these, and they&#8217;re quite good! I&#8217;m queueing up the 2 or 3 I haven&#8217;t seen already&#8230;give them a shot if you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First wind-powered town in the USA is on the grid</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/08/04/first-wind-powered-town-in-the-usa-is-on-the-grid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/08/04/first-wind-powered-town-in-the-usa-is-on-the-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was away for a week or so, but I&#8217;ve been keeping my ear to the ground, sort of, and catching stories online that are worth talking about.
Rock Port, Missouri is the first town in the United States to be powered completely by wind!
From the article:
The U.S. Department of Energy wants to make wind energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning about rain gardens</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/24/learning-about-rain-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wannabehippy.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about this new era of eco-awareness is that many things that save energy, money or materials are being &#8216;discovered&#8217; - or rediscovered is probably the more correct term. Even more correct: people who knew about these techniques and habits long ago are sharing them now with people who are more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because of rising food prices, rice is now as profitable as cocaine</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/23/because-of-rising-food-prices-rice-is-now-as-profitable-as-cocaine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/23/because-of-rising-food-prices-rice-is-now-as-profitable-as-cocaine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow!
This is pretty interesting. The International Herald Tribune reports that &#8220;soaring food prices may yet achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with crops other than coca, cocaine&#8217;s raw ingredient.&#8221;
The IHT article goes into the details of the United States farm subsidies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Three Biggest Myths the Bush Administration Wants You to Believe About Offshore Drilling</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/22/the-three-biggest-myths-the-bush-administration-wants-you-to-believe-about-offshore-drilling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/22/the-three-biggest-myths-the-bush-administration-wants-you-to-believe-about-offshore-drilling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alternet has a good post totally debunking the reasons why the GOP want off-shore oil drilling:
1. Newt Gingrich, for some reason, is running a 527 organization, American Solutions, is promoting a &#8220;Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less&#8221; campaign, collecting signatures to present to Congress&#8230;however, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has explained, &#8220;access to the Pacific, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwashing - how susceptible are you?</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/21/greenwashing-how-susceptible-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/21/greenwashing-how-susceptible-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia defines &#8220;greenwashing&#8221; as &#8220;a term that is used to describe the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.&#8221;
Also, companies that attempt to portray an aura of environmentalism and concern for green issues without actually changing business practices are saddled with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New milk jugs save tons of fuel, space and money</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/18/new-milk-jugs-save-tons-of-fuel-space-and-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/18/new-milk-jugs-save-tons-of-fuel-space-and-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I didn&#8217;t even know about these new jugs, and I&#8217;ve just recently been back to the States for a visit. I found out about these from EcoGeek, where they lamented that customers are finding the new shape difficult to pour fro:

 EcoGeek says:

Yes, they’re shaped kind of weird and you have to pour a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Earth&#8217;s 6th great Mass Extinction happening right now?</title>
		<link>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/17/the-earths-6th-great-mass-extinction-happening-right-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wannabehippy.com/2008/07/17/the-earths-6th-great-mass-extinction-happening-right-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Galaxy website has an interesting article about past and present extinctions of species across the Earth, which makes for really in-depth reading.
Here&#8217;s just a sample of what&#8217;s in the article, which argues that humans are the main direct cause for the latest range of extinction:
 Biocide is occurring at an alarming rate. Experts [...]]]></description>
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