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		<title>Do it in the dark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[.. or rather, use less electricity at least.
 Do it in the Dark is the campaign slogan for the Campus Environmental Center&#8217;s  Energy Challenge Month at the University of Texas.  The campaign will take place during the entire month of November and is asking students around campus to do their part to cut down on their electricity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=121&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/do-it-in-the-dark/</link>
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		<title>Do you believe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study known as the American Climate Values Survey and published by ecoAmerica says that 18 percent of Americans strongly believe that climate change is real, human-caused and harmful.
According to the survey, published at the beginning of October, most people (73 percent) do believe in climate change, but don&#8217;t attribute the full impact to humans.  Interestingly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=119&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/do-you-believe/</link>
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		<title>PowerVote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Al Gore will be webcasting live to a student organization known as Power
Vote at campuses around the country Wednesday night, congratulating them on their efforts to get the student vote out. 
 
Power Vote is a group of students campaigning to make green living a real issue in legislatures across the country.  They ask that students sign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=114&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/powervote/</link>
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		<title>Man with a Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billionaire T. Boone Pickens has a proposition for America, and he&#8217;s looking for public support to back his Pickens Plan to decrease our dependency on foreign oil.   The man wants American private industries to invest a trillion dollars in establishing wind turbines around the country to use for power generation in our homes and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=109&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/man-with-a-plan/</link>
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		<title>Water you doing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been told we need to watch our carbon footprint in order to save the world, right?  How many of us have considered our water footprint?  
Your water footprint is basically the amount of water it took to produce the items or goods you consume per year.  This includes each drop of water it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=105&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/water-you-doing/</link>
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		<title>Raise the roof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As people are becoming more aware of the urban heat effect on climate change, creating green roofs by adding plants to the top of your building is one solution that&#8217;s gaining popularity. 
According to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, a green roof is essentially a &#8220;vegetated roof cover with growing media and plants to take the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=99&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/raise-the-roof/</link>
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		<title>Upcycling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to take a look at a few possible ways to upgrade your old recyclables.  It&#8217;s a fun reminder of the old adage &#8220;one woman&#8217;s trash is another woman&#8217;s treasure,&#8221; proving that your own creativity is the only limit to what you can do with your home recyclables. 
The site offers 16 different ways you can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=96&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/upcycling/</link>
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		<title>Bailout Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few weeks since Congress passed the $700 billion bailout plan, but it wasn&#8217;t until I heard author, journalist and filmmaker Naomi Klein voice her criticisms last night that the number really sank in. 
$700,000,000 is a lot of money &#8211; enough money in fact, says Klein, to fund basic healthcare to every child [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=92&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/bailout-blues/</link>
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		<title>The dirty truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Our oil dependency may be what fuels our cars, but it&#8217;s coal that provides half of U.S. electricity on a daily basis.  Per unit of energy, coal blows oil away by emitting 29 percent more carbon emissions into the air.  We know this.  That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re starting to use clean coal, right?
For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=80&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/the-dirty-truth/</link>
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		<title>Virtual crossover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Second Life signifies a virtual world where avatars can fly and anything can be created with the click of a mouse.  It represents a platform, a virtual space, where like-minded people can gather to share ideas.  Dr. Leslie Jarmon of UT&#8217;s Division of Instructional Innovation Assessment says that the co-presence of an avatar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mothere.wordpress.com&blog=4886950&post=73&subd=mothere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mothere.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/virtual-crossover/</link>
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