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		<title>Deep Sea News, Oil Spill Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the latest report from Deep Sea News, a blog written by several scientists about deep sea and ocean news. If you go to the Deep Sea News oil spill update page, you will see a a satellite radar image of where the oil slick is now, as of July 12, 2010. There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=1055&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Escaping the Heat Wave, Vermont Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermonters are experiencing the annual heat wave, with temperatures in the 90&#8242;s. I for one am not a fan of hot weather: it usually doesn&#8217;t last very long here, but the heat can be brutal. As my energy level plummeted yesterday I decided to take a hike up Mount Mansfield, hoping for a cool breeze [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=1020&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont and the Gulf Oil Spill, Information and Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When the people lead, the leaders will follow.&#8221; &#8220;Understanding, Vision, Action&#8221; “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” &#8220;No one industry should be able to put an entire coastal economy and marine and coastal environment at risk.&#8221; __________________________________________________ // [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=922&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area Wildlife Day</title>
		<link>http://greenvermont.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/dead-creek-wildlife-management-area-wildlife-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canada geese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasive plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salamanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snakes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Nature Conservancy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vermont Amphibian Atlas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area today for their Wildlife Day. The celebration included many workshops such as a bird banding demonstration, soap carving for kids, turkey hunting techniques, working retrievers, nature walks, bluebird box building and snow goose viewing. Although the sky was overcast it was a great day to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=905&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorting through the energy information glut</title>
		<link>http://greenvermont.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/sorting-through-the-energy-information-glut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a member of my town&#8217;s energy committee, I have the opportunity to discuss energy-related issues with committee members that may impact our community in positive ways. A recently completed project entailed reviewing the 2006 Essex town plan and adding language that reflects the contributions the energy committee will make in coming years. It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=881&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of a Good Person</title>
		<link>http://greenvermont.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-nature-of-a-good-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been posting regularly to my blog or Twitter account because of an event that I am still trying to comprehend: the death of my mother. She passed away suddenly on June 17 surrounded by several of my siblings and other relatives, but I missed her last living moments while driving my car, racing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=862&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cows, Kids and More at Strolling of the Heifers</title>
		<link>http://greenvermont.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/cows-kids-and-more-at-strolling-of-the-heifers/</link>
		<comments>http://greenvermont.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/cows-kids-and-more-at-strolling-of-the-heifers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, June 6 was the seventh year for the Strolling of the Heifers parade in Brattleboro. Rated as one of the top 10 summer events in Vermont by the state chamber of commerce, this event, which runs from Friday through Sunday, is a gathering of farm animals, farm equipment, farmers, food producers, schools, children, arts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=812&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Legislature Passes Bills to Manage Our State&#8217;s Energy Future</title>
		<link>http://greenvermont.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/vermont-legislature-passes-bills-to-manage-states-energy-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 27, 2009 the Vermont Legislature passed H. 446: An Act Relating to Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. It is setting the standard for how states can manage and regulate the development of renewable energy within their borders. For Vermont it is an important step forward in managing the state&#8217;s energy future after Vermont [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=815&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Sky Day on Camel&#8217;s Hump Mountain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camel&#8217;s Hump It was hard to resist the call to hike this past Thursday because of the perfect convergence of sunny skies, temperatures in the 60&#8242;s and a light breeze that kept the black flies at bay. The Monroe Trail on the Duxbury side of Camel&#8217;s Hump mountain was my destination for a quick hike [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=783&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to Isle La Motte and the Alburg Sand Dunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I drove to the Champlain Islands to visit the Alburg Dunes State Park and the Fisk Quarry Preserve, an old limestone quarry on Isle La Motte that is part of the &#8220;oldest known biologically diverse reef in the world&#8221;; oldest meaning the reef formed 480 to 450 million years ago. Isle La Motte [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenvermont.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7119040&amp;post=739&amp;subd=greenvermont&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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