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         <title>It&apos;s About Greening All Jobs, Not Green Jobs&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Carl Pope, former executive director and chairman of Sierra Club, shares his point of view in Huffington Post.

This year's most pitch-perfect political speech may have just been given, not by President Obama, or Mitt Romney, but by John Dingell, the dean of the House of Representatives, but razor sharp at 85. Speaking to the Blue-Green Alliance's Detroit "Good Jobs-Green Jobs" Conference, Dingell sounded a simple theme.

Read <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/greening-jobs_b_1511253.html?ref=green">the article</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Rethinking Some Old Habits, One of Them Close to Home&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Readers who give up print newspapers and switch to digital devices will gain a benefit many have probably not thought about: they will be slashing the carbon emissions associated with their news habit.

That is the conclusion of a new report from the RAND Corporation that uses news-reading habits as an example to make a larger point. Efforts to reduce energy consumption often focus too narrowly on improving existing practices, the authors found, rather than on rethinking old habits from the ground up.

Read <a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/rethinking-some-old-habits-one-of-them-close-to-home/#more-138646">The New York Times article</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Southeast Asia Leads in Willingness to Pay More for Ethical Products&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Conscience shopping across Southeast Asia remains strong with a number of countries leading the region in purchasing products that are environmentally friendly and observe fair trade principles, according to the latest MasterCard survey on ethical spending.

For further information, please visit the <a href="http://www.masterintelligence.com/ethical%20shopping.jsp">MasterCard Worldwide web site</a>.
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         <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>$9 Million Available for Small Green Businesses&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Department of Energy (DOE) is making available $9 million  to help about 50 small businesses advance innovative energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. 

The funds are for outside-the-box approaches that improve manufacturing processes, boost the efficiency of buildings, reduce reliance on oil, and generate electricity from renewable sources to bring new clean energy solutions to market faster.

<a href="http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/23593">Read more</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranking results&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranking results were released by Yale University and Colombia University. Please visit <a href="http://epi.yale.edu/epi2012/rankings">2012 EPI: Rankings</a> for more information.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>(less than) One hundred days to the future we want&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The ability to innovate and create ways of operating that are sustainable is, increasingly, one of business's strengths. Making an impact requires the right policy frameworks, which will be up for discussion in Rio. It also requires scalability. This is an area Business Action for Sustainable Development (BASD) 2012, the official UN Business & Industry Major Group, is focusing on. Its actions will cumulate in the official BASD 2012 Business Day on 19 June 2012, a high-profile platform for interaction between business leaders and policy-makers to identify key actions and catalysts to drive scale, as a final input to the Rio+20 Conference.

Read more on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/basd-business-day-sustainable-development?newsfeed=true">the Guardian article</a>.
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Green Party leader calls for thriving green economy&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Green Party leader Caroline Lucas says the government has misread the public mood by trying to sideline green issues.

Ms Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion, says the decision to allow more building in the countryside and Chancellor George Osborne's claim that it is not important to meet carbon reduction targets are "tragic" and a "travesty of truth".

"The government has completely misread the public mood on this," she said. "Look at the outcry over the attempt to sell off the forests which forced an embarrassing U-turn and look at the fiasco over the new planning regulations. People are worried about what will happen to their countryside."

"Austerity isn't working. Investing in green measures and green technology is actually good for the economy because a green economy is an incredibly labour intensive economy," she said.

Read more on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17557284">the BBC News article</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Skinny genes – how GM food may help you stave off obesity&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Fond of a full English breakfast? Perhaps you should have a glass of blood orange juice on the side – it might help to reduce the harm from all the fat you are ingesting, and make you less likely to become obese.

But as blood oranges are among the least favoured fruits for consumers, scientists in the UK are hoping to find ways to genetically modify standard oranges to incorporate the beneficial effects of their less popular cousins.

Read <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/13/gm-food-genetically-modified-obesity">the article</a> on Guardian UK]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Structural institutional change needed for a successful green economy&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The green economy and international institutional framework for sustainable development should become mutually reinforcing, as there is a need for structural change in institutions.

Improving institutions and their ability to enable the right frameworks is critical so that all actors can deliver on their shared responsibility and ensure better coordination and policy implementation. The Business Alliance for Sustainable Development (BASD) believes that the following key points should be considered in the Rio+20 compilation document.

Read more on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/green-economy-institutional-change?newsfeed=true">The Guardian UK</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Skywriting With an Airliner&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Boeing 787 uses advanced materials and high-tech engines to fly more quietly, with lower emissions of nitrogen oxides and less fuel than previous models, all significant environmental benefits. But sometimes, the engineers who designed have tried to have a bit of fun.

Flying 9,000 nautical miles, a Boeing 787 spelled out its model number and the company logo.

Read more on<a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/skywriting-with-an-airliner/#more-132963"> The New York Times</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Women are earning, spending, and influencing spending at a greater rate than ever before.&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[According to <a href="http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/01/24/the-top-30-stats-you-need-to-know-when-marketing-to-women/">Social Media</a>, women are earning, spending, and influencing spending at a greater rate than ever before. In fact, women account for $7 trillion in consumer and business spending in the United States, and over the next decade, they will control two thirds of consumer wealth.

Women make or influence 85% of all purchasing decisions, and purchase over 50% of traditional male products, including automobiles, home improvement products and consumer electronics.

For further information, please visit <a href="http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/01/24/the-top-30-stats-you-need-to-know-when-marketing-to-women/">Social Media</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Featured iPhone App: Taptu Guardian Environment&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Guardian teamed up with a social news reader Taptu to release <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taptu-guardian-environment/id487650170?ls=1&mt=8">Taptu Guardian Environment</a>. Although its user interface needs some improvement for a better reading experience, it is worth downloading.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Unlocking Seaweed’s Next-Gen Crude: Sugar&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Seaweed often brings to mind thoughts of surf and sushi, not fuel. But that could change if a biotechnology start-up called <a href="http://www.ba-lab.com/">Bio Architecture Lab</a> succeeds in building a new kind of energy company from designer bacteria and a low-cost process for harvesting seaweed.

The key is a genetically modified strain of Escherichia coli bacterium, which can break down the sugars in brown seaweed, or macro-algae, to produce ethanol, according to <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066/308.abstract">new research</a> published in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

Read <a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/unlocking-seaweeds-next-gen-crude-sugar/">The New York Times article</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Green Gifts for Every Occasion&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Daily Green's gift guide features the season's best <a href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/green-gifts">green gifts</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Economic fallacies: is it time to work more, or less?&nbsp;&nbsp;[News]</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Juliet Schor explains the economic logic of a shorter working week.

"31% of college-educated American men work more than 50 hours a week while 15.1% of all Americans live in poverty."

"Economists are fond of pointing out fallacies in economic logic, and unorthodox economists are especially fond of the sport. Adam Smith's famous maxim that the self-interested behavior of individuals produces the common good is one widely-held fallacy. It was spectacularly debunked by the selfish behavior of the 1% who crashed the world economy in 2008."

Read <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/economy-employee-working-hours">The Guardian article</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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