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		<title>&#8220;Is There Asbestos in My Home?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara O&#39;Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short answer to the question, “Is there asbestos in my home?” is “Yes, probably.” How much, where, and whether you should worry, depends mostly on when your home was built and what condition it is in.]]></description>
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		<title>The Weight of Fresh Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Jenkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water is a pretty weighty commodity. A gallon of the stuff weights 8.3 pounds, yet, the real weight of water is in how necessary it is to life. We drink it, cook in it, and bathe in it. Our plants need it to grow. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
 &#8220;Up to 60 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike to Work Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 05:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Jenkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the League of American Bicyclists, half of all Americans live within five miles of their workplace. I&#8217;m willing to wager that at least half, if not over half, of all working Americans drive to work no matter how far away they live.

My daughter&#8217;s first job, after high school was in the Twin Cities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Earth Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Jenkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite pieces of poetry is the last verse of Robert Frost&#8217;s Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening: 

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.


Although the snow is finally gone, this poem seems right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Incentives For Making Your House More Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Moyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 1,588 pages, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is quite an undertaking to read. Most people probably wouldn’t take the time to read the whole thing, but there are some tax credits they might be missing out on. The economic stimulus package lengthens the Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives first enacted in 2005 [...]]]></description>
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