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		<title>The Eco Modder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Eco Modder.  This usually means that a car owner has changed the efficiency of a car in some way to make it better.
The eco-mod that stands out is what was discovered by Darin Cosgrove.
Here is Dan learning about  Pulse and Glide Fuel Economy &#8211; no modifications required:

By adding a boat tail to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Energy Outlook 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World Energy Outlook 2008 this years annual independent report (adobe .pdf file), (which is yearly done by the influential International Energy Agency (IEA)), on the state of global energy needs and affects for both government and other organizations was published publicly today November 12, 2008 at the IEA world head quarters in London.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/world-energy-outlook-2008/</link>
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		<title>Investing in Carbon Capture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are not looking into the health issues humans from mining coal to begin with. Investing in carbon capture is currently the only clean coal reality being presented as an option to American investors.  American investors who are just tired of dealing with dirty energy as a whole.
Green Peace is not for clean coal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/investing-in-carbon-capture/</link>
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		<title>New Alternatives Mutual Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many investment firms forming a net to catch the newly re-greened dollar. One of them is the New Alternatives Fund. This mutual fund only invests in renewable energy sources.  A moral stance that is quickly becoming the norm with many mainstream green investment companies and funds.
New Alternatives Fund1 focuses on alternative energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/new-alternatives-mutual-fund/</link>
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		<title>Green-Collar Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green-Collar Jobs give every member of society&#8217;s socioeconomic strata, a valuable stake in reversing and preventing global warming.
This concept centers around two crucial concerns.  These concerns directly affect our survival.
These concerns are the environment, and sustaining a gainful living.  In a green collar job a person makes a living protecting the environment in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/green-collar-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Water Light Bulbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most practical invention for lighting dark unlit rooms comes from inventor mechanic Mr. Alfredo Moser with his water light bulbs.
He notices that two clear two-liter bottles refract the sun very brightly when the bottles are filled with water.
So he decided to save on his electric bill.  Mr. Moser cut holes in the ceiling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/water-light-bulbs/</link>
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		<title>Renewable Energy Options Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Renewable Energy Options Systems are a part of Oregon&#8217;s push the become and energy independent state two community colleges are offering courses in to help empower the work force that will staff the new infra structure.  This expansion of existing electronics degrees available to students is called Renewable Energy Options Systems. 
This program focuses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/renewable-energy-options-systems/</link>
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		<title>The First Electric Cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first electric car was in the running as a power source for cars very early in the history of the auto mobile.
The first car ever built ran on steam, credit for this is a toss up between Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot and Ferdinand Verbiest.  These designs were put in play around 1765.  Cugnots Design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/the-first-electric-cars/</link>
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		<title>Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008 Passes.
Late in Tuesday morning voting on the Renewable Energy and Jobs Creation Act of 2008 (Adobe pdf) was held up by necessary debate.
Senators Baucus &#038; Grassley asked for an offset in exchange for the energy tax extension to be written into the bill. 
This call for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/renewable-energy-and-job-creation-act/</link>
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		<title>Pickens Plan Sustainability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pickens Plan is a wind/solar power and LNG (liquid natural gas) based plan to reduce our dependence on foreign oil over the next ten to fifteen years by three hundred billion a year; building a bridge in search of national sustainability.
The goal of this plan is to be a transitional bridge, to an even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/pickens-plan-sustainability/</link>
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		<title>Bioplastics from plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bioplastics are plants as plastic; such as starch-based plants like potatoes into plastic in addition to casserole, or hashbrowns.  That is the new world of bioplastics.
Bioplastics came about due to a need to find less pollutive ways to create plastics.
It is possible due to the strength of plant fibers at the microscopic level.
DuPont, Toyota [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/bioplastics-from-plants/</link>
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		<title>EcoVillages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ecological and socially sustainable living is the main theme for living in an Ecovillage.  The social component to Ecovillages is modern living.
Modern living with regard to life-style comfort.  This comfort is centrally caused by the use of environmentally friendly technology.
A progressive advent of the tradition of communal living, the ecovillage focuses on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/ecovillages/</link>
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		<title>3M Door and Window Warmer Kits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3M door and window warmer kits are easy-to-install frame insulation kits, used to increase the thermal dynamics of the home by sealing the cracks between the frame and the edges of doors or windows around the house, keeping drafts and cold air from getting through.
As we move into an era of higher grades of sustainability, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/3m-door-and-window-warmer-kits/</link>
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		<title>Clustered LED Light Bulb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A clustered LED light bulb like the CC VIVID Plus LED is an energy efficient, long lasting multi-directional light bulb that actually costs less than CFLs in the long run, while providing healthier lighting right now.
The CC VIVID Plus LED light bulb has a standard cork screw socket, but with a ten year lifespan and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/clustered-led-light-bulb/</link>
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		<title>Strategies for Sustainable Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strategies for Sustainable Architecture shows how sustainability can be incorporated into practical designs that work, showing one hundred designs that are working, throughout Europe, North America and Australia.
When we look at the future that is coming tomorrow, and we realize that something must be done, when our hearts are screaming for change, we look to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/strategies-for-sustainable-architecture/</link>
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		<title>Home Power Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Home Power Magazine has been around since 1987, was developed by Richard and Karen Perez with the mission to change the way people generate and use energy in their homes.
Mini hydro-electric, wind, solar, rechargeable electric automotives, on-grid, off-grid, suburban or urban; Home Power Magazine is about reaching the maximum of renewable efficiency for each and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/home-power-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Green Builder Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green Builder Magazine is the main publication of Green Builder Media and is dedicated specifically to residential sustainable development.
For the residential sustainable developer, Green Builder Magazine is an authoritative voice with recommendations on design, products and practices, while complete with news, updates, legislative issues and legal issues.
Profiles of other green builders as well as reviews [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/green-builder-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Acres USA Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acres U.S.A. Magazine is the best publication about sustainable farming available, with more than 35 years of continuous publication, filled with articles and information written by real people that make eco-agriculture part of their lives, while only advertising for the real farm suppliers.
There is a lot of theory out there, but for those who actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/acres-usa-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Sustainability of concrete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In todays world of sustainability, we need to watch every last use of our concrete; it is a limited resource, one that takes millions and millions of years to develop in nature.
Harvested with great cost, usually at the sacrifice of underground caves, some of natures most precious environments.
That gray powder that acts as the buildings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainability-of-concrete/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Living Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Living is a book for home, neighborhood and community, showing the most essential information in this area, information that most people are looking for, but have a hard time finding; here is fifteen years of sustainable living knowledge, packed into one place.
Living sustainably is not just about being self-reliant, its about all the factors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-living-book/</link>
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		<title>Green Building Products</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green Building Products is a greenspec guide to residential building materials, both for those who actually build homes as well as the conscious homeowner looking to remodel their home with a little consideration for the environmental impacts that traditional materials can have.
Long-term value, health, safety, efficiency, beauty, durability, energy costs, allergies or even concern for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/green-building-products/</link>
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		<title>Heating Cooling and Lighting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the area of sustainability grows, so does the range of books for growing professionals in this diverse area; Heating, Cooling, Lighting is a book of design methods for architects that breaks the possibilities down into an organized array of concepts.
The energy flow of a building can be cut down to three important factors, heating, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/heating-cooling-and-lighting/</link>
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		<title>Living the Good Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living the Good Life, and Continuing the Good Life by Scott and Helen Nearing is the original book on the 60s homesteading movement, and shows us what it takes to get out of the city and back to the land, with little money or knowledge.
All of us know what it would mean to get away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/living-the-good-life/</link>
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		<title>Micro Eco-Farming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Micro Eco-Farming is a book about how to prosper with an organic mini-farm the size of the backyard to the size of a small acreage, for living a more sustainable way of life, today.
Life is an enigmatic question, but everyone agrees that it should be lived to its fullest, but not at the expense of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/micro-eco-farming/</link>
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		<title>Straw Bale House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Straw Bale House is a guide to inexpensive home building with this unique and eloquent technique that is clean, lightweight, energy efficient, cheap and even earth-quake resistant.
While many sustainable books just mention straw bale, it is sometimes enough to spark the human imagination into the far more elaborate, artistic opportunities that this distinct building [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/straw-bale-house/</link>
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		<title>RechargeIT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RechargeIT is a Google.Org initiative with plug-in hybrid electric cars or V2G vehicle to grid cars, with the objective of showing how much cheaper and efficient electricity can be as an alternative domestic fuel source when compared to gasoline.
V2G, also known as plug-in hybrids really are an ideal option for commuter cars, due to recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/rechargeit/</link>
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		<title>Global Green USA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt is using his celebrity status together with Global Green USA to help promote a green tendency in reconstruction through the wake of hurricane Katrina.
Already, they have chosen six finalists, for their project, and each project shows something special in the area of sustainability that makes them unique, while complying to their goals of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/global-green-usa/</link>
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		<title>RE&lt;C</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal goal announced on November 27, 2007 abbreviated RE&#60;C is Googles attempt at creating a new renewable energy revolution.
Initially, Google will need to hire experts that can help them produce one gigawatt of electrical power that is actually more cost-effective than the production of coal, then spend hundreds of millions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/rec/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Sites seeks to set standards for sustainable landscaping, through guidelines to site development that will greatly reduce the environmental impact of landscapes, much in the same way that standards already exist for sustainable green buildings.
Climate regulation, clean air, clean water and an improved quality of life; these qualities look to supplement already existing green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-sites/</link>
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		<title>The Economics of Sustainable Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development by Herman E. Daly is a way of looking at growth and sustainability from different angles.  This book accounts for new ways of thinking about economy through wealth of nature, the necessity of morality and value of community.
Challenging traditional thinking about what really is sustainable development and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/the-economics-of-sustainable-development/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Design Philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philosophy of Sustainable Design outlines the most important issues and ideas emerging in the movement toward  sustainable architecture and design, over the last thirty years.
This is a starting point for those involved in the building industry and looking for a more responsible method of building.  This is the practical how-to knowledge that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-design-philosophy/</link>
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		<title>UWAFT Alternative Fuels Team and The Challenge X Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Waterloos Alternative Fuels Team breaking through the common thinking about Hydrogen fuel cells by making the very first successful model by a University for the Challenge X Competition.

When students start making their own models of advanced technologies like hydrogen cars that have only really been taken seriously for about a decade or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/uwaft-alternative-fuels-team-and-the-challenge-x-competition/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Living has 25 international examples of both high and low-tech homes across five different continents, through lavish photographs both in color and black and white, showing historical neighborhoods to rustic settings, with some of the most surprising materials from straw bales to sandbags, inspiring green design in every little detail of all the major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-living/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Planet is a product of the Center for a New American Dream (CNAD), and shows how we, as American citizens, can improve our quality of life by changing the way we consume, promoting social justice and protecting the environment for a more self-reliant tomorrow, starting right now in our own lives.
Are Americans too fat? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-planet/</link>
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		<title>Green Circles by Chuck Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green Circles: A Sustainable Journey from the Cradle to the Grave by Chuck Hall is a way of observing every aspect and phase of the human lifecycle as an integral part of nature and the environment through a clear perspective of sustainable living.
Green Circles is a 176 page paperback first published by Booklocker.com in May [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/green-circles-by-chuck-hall/</link>
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		<title>Greensulate Insulation from Mushrooms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Could mushroom spores replace conventional foam insulations?
A renewable source of sustainable insulation from mushrooms that also acts as a firewall (and could even be grown into a whole house) was invented at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is planned to be commercialized under the label Greensulate by Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre as soon as they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/greensulate-insulation-from-mushrooms/</link>
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		<title>Climate Savers Initiative 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Climate Savers Computing Initiative was announced on the 12th of June, 2007 by more than thirty different high-tech companies such as Intel and Google in order to drive energy-efficient computing; saving 5.5 billion U$ in energy costs and reduce CO2 emissions by 54 million tons per year.
Everybody knows that since 1998, Google has come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/climate-savers-initiative-2007/</link>
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		<title>The UK goes ZEH efficient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK is ordering new sustainability standards on their modern built ZEH homes for the year 2016, and a showcase was released on the 13th of June, 2007, Kingspan OffSite, featuring six lighthouse-class homes that have no carbon footprint whatsoever.
Two bedrooms, sixty percent more insulation, southern facing windows, 93,3 square meters, two and half story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/the-uk-goes-zeh-efficient/</link>
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		<title>Coca-Cola Pledges to Replace the Water it uses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 5th of June, 2007 at the World Water Foundation (WWF) convention in Beijing, Coca-Cola officially pledges to replace the water it uses.
Three factors; REDUCE, RECYCLE and REPLENISH:

Reducing the water used to produce its beverages
Recycling water used for beverage manufacturing processes
Replenishing water in communities and nature.

Launching a multi-year partnership with the WWF to conserve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/coca-cola-pledges-to-replace-the-water-it-uses/</link>
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		<title>Balance Point Homestead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Balance Point Homestead is a passive solar energy off grid home in the Mohawk Valley, upstate New York.
David and Sarah&#8217;s self sufficient passive solar home is totally off the grid, is not a part of the buy back program and was never intended to be.
It was always meant to be an example of how renewable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/balance-point-homestead/</link>
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		<title>Hybrid Hydrogen-Carbon Process H2CAR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H2CAR or Hybrid Hydrogen-Carbonis a proposed process for a more sustainable biofuel that virtually eliminates CO2 emissions in biodiesel, multiplying biomass efficiency to a point where our nations current demand for oil would be completely met and eliminating the need to sequester the current overdose of CO2 in our atmosphere.
H2CAR is a new way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/hybrid-hydrogen-carbon-process-h2car/</link>
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		<title>School Garden in Santa Maria is supported by OSH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Orchard Supply Hardware based in San José California is supporting the efforts of Miller School in Santa Maria, with over 1,000 U$ in gardening supplies and cooperation to build a state-of-the-art school garden.
Volunteers, teachers andelementary students working together in the garden is traditionally what school gardens have always been about and Miller School is doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/school-garden-in-santa-maria-is-supported-by-osh/</link>
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		<title>Bio-Bubbles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excel-Aire makes Bio-Bubble; a 100% degradable bubble packaging that turns to water, CO2 and harmless biomass through the d2w (degrades to water) oxo-biodegradable additive process.
Bio-Bubble is oxo-biodegradable, has been comprehensively tested, is environmentally safe with no compromise to product features or performance and is completely recyclable either as a plastic or an organic.
Excel-Aire knows that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/bio-bubbles/</link>
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		<title>Chevrolet Volt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chevrolet Volt by GM (General Motors) just may be the car that will revolutionize the way Americans commute, this hybrid sports car has a sleek and aggressive style that plays caddy to what todays working class needs, wants and most of all, what the near future is certain to demand, sustainability!
Chevrolet Volt is different from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/chevrolet-volt/</link>
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		<title>Green Construction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green construction faces obstacles but is on it&#8217;s way to become a more &#8220;known&#8221; industry.
Buildings That Breathe &#8211; Green Construction is Coming of Age by Sally Deneen and Brian Howard
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		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/green-construction/</link>
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		<title>Google Philanthropy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a for-profit organization, Google Philanthropy will spend three million in Google stocks on sustainability projects for developing nations such as Ghana in Africa.
Offering possibilities for venture capitalists and start up companies in the area of sustainability is only the tip of the iceberg, Google Philanthropy intends to reach out into the areas of disease [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/google-philanthropy/</link>
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		<title>Tesla Electric Roadster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tesla Electric Roadster of Tesla Motors gets its name from the famous Nicola Tesla; a man who knew electricity should belong to the world, a man who knew its potential.  Are you thinking of using a car that is completely self-sufficient and sustainable for the modern age?  How about going 100% electric?
Tesla [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/tesla-electric-roadster/</link>
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		<title>Remote Military Renewables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remote military bases in Western Iraq migrate to renewable energy sources as cheaper in the short term.
As of August 11th 2006, the US Military in charge of western Iraq has made the firm decision to migrate to renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar.
The decision was made due to the ongoing threat of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/remote-military-renewables/</link>
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		<title>Pataki Energy Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor George Pataki (New York) calls for fuel efficient cars, tax credits and development of alternative fuels as an energy plan. He offered this 10 year plan on the same day an Alaskan pipeline was shut down for repairs which could enhance his possible presidential run.
Patakis Remarks @ a National Press Club Luncheon, Washington DC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/pataki-energy-plan/</link>
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		<title>Coca-Cola in Thailand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Established in 2005, the Thailand Institute of Packaging Management for Sustainable Environment (TIPMSE), is a non-for-profit organization sponsored by Coca-Cola, that fights for a more sustainable future in Thailand.
TIPSMEs most recent conquest has been a MoU or Memorandum of Understanding for the development of waste segregation, collection and recycling models at two well-known Thailand Universities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/coca-cola-in-thailand/</link>
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		<title>Sustainability in New Orleans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina gives birth to Sustainability Projects in New Orleans
With a 3 Million US dollars investment from Ameriquest Mortgage Company and associates and the genius of young university architecture students from Tulane, the rebirth of a sustainable New Orleans will receive its first example.
With the reconstruction of the historical New Orleans Rescue Mission into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainability-in-new-orleans/</link>
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		<title>Green Roofs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green Roofs in Urban Landscapes
It has been some 50 years since Germany began to pioneer a trend in urban development known as the green roof.  MSNBC posted on the April 27, 2006:
The planted rooftop of the American Society of Landscape Architects building in downtown Washington is a model of the techniques used increasingly to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/green-roofs/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Forestry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Forestry &#8211; Strategies for replenishment
Sustainable forestry is about protecting the future of our biosphere, making sure we have air to breath, and clean water to drink. But it is also about making a global economy sustain its needs for wood in the present as well as the future by adopting strategies that promote replenishment, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-forestry/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Fisheries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Fisheries &#8211; Enhancement and wise use.
Sustainable fisheries look to secure protection, enhancement and wise use of fisheries resources for our current needs globally and the needs of our future generations to come. Sustainable fisheries are those that look to develop a more sustainable natural use of our ocean&#8217;s fish, thereby securing food, economy and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-fisheries/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Development &#8211; Environmental sensitivity
A good definition of sustainable development is easily stated by the UN:
&#8220;Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.&#8221;
And within this area there are three basic points of reference for international organizations such as the UN. Sustainable energy development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-development/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Business &#8211; The result of crisis

Sustainable business exists as the direct result of crisis. Every time we suffer an energy crisis, we stimulate creative solutions. Those solutions don&#8217;t always come from within any specific field such as the oil industry, but more often than not those people who are directly affected by the crisis, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-business/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Agriculture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Agriculture &#8211; Basic principles.
The concept of sustainable agriculture revolves around three basic principles, environmental health, economic profitability and social as well as economic equity. Sustainability has a founding precept that we must meet our own needs here in the present without compromising the ability for future generations to meet their own needs. Environmental health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-agriculture/</link>
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		<title>Sustainable Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable Architecture &#8211; Concepts of energy conservation.
Sustainable architecture is based on the concept of energy conservation.  Sustainable architecture design is focused on &#8220;all points are zero&#8221;, as are sustainable architecture schools.  Depending on who&#8217;s theory of thermal dynamics a person is studying, the focus in sustainable architecture may vary, but there are six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sustainable.rain-barrel.net/sustainable-architecture/</link>
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