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		<title>Take a Tour of Solarious</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/solarioustour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 17:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, you will be seeing a lot of action at the Solarious website, as I update and expand the back pages with new information for you.  Why don&#8217;t you stop through and take a tour?
First, check out the food additives page, &#8220;In My Food&#8221;, where you can find out more about the ingredients that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ILoveMiceElf.com - Treat your senses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of falling away from the grid involves rethinking your purchasing power. Instead of supporting Walmart, which imports a staggering 30% of all goods that enter through US ports, aim to create local relationships and to buy products that eliminate or minimize the &#8220;distance to table&#8221; effect which governs not only food but all your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s First Wind Powered City</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/americas-first-wind-powered-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official: at least one city in the United States has finally ponied up for a wind powered station that will meet the entire city&#8217;s needs.  Meet Rock Port, Missouri, poised to take that trophy home for America.  Fortunately situated near a bluff and with a windy enough climate to sustain a projected 16 gigawatt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ride the BioTour</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/ride-the-biotour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 22:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Information on joining the BioTour here

If you&#8217;ve been looking for an inexpensive way to spend a week of vacation while still contributing to a great cause, how about taking part in BioTour&#8217;s journey across America?  Biotour is a big school bus, converted to run on WVO (biodiesel) and solar energy.  A rotating cast of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK REVIEW: Peak Oil Survival</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/book-review-peak-oil-survival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Grid-Crash

Just the name alone drew me to the book.  Of course I want to know how to live after the bottom inevitably drops out from under us.  The book was really a quick read.  It looked much more dense textually than it turned out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the King Corn Challenge</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/take-the-king-corn-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 16:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Corn Challenge

It&#8217;s always nice to have someone to commiserate with when making even slightly painful lifestyle changes be they in the name of good.  It&#8217;s great motivation.  (For some reason, introducing the bad stuff always comes easily, especially with company!)  Here&#8217;s an interesting look at two filmmakers and the challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quickie - Food Politics</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/quickie-food-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 16:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to a good article about what&#8217;s happening to our global food supplies, and why it&#8217;s translating to more at the register.
Read the full story here

As we deepen into our self-created oil and energy crisis, we can only expect more articles like this, and more future costs, not fewer.  Consider planting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COMMITMENT: Community Service</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/commitment-community-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 18:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just finished doing a few days of community service around Los Angeles.  Out here, you can end up doing community service for almost anything.  Jaywalk?  Community service.  Broken headlight?  Community service.  Forget your seatbelt&#8230;?  You guessed it.  Specifically, I was in Macarthur Park, made nationally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Menu?  Egg Jello</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/todays-menu-egg-jello/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahhhh.  I&#8217;m finally back on my laptop, after three weeks of it acting like a teenager going through puberty.  First, the wireless card broke after a week of intermittently kicking me off.  So, I freecycled for another (if you don&#8217;t Freecycle, read my previous post) and received two.  I tell you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget the $10 Solar Cooker!</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/forget-the-10-solar-cooker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How about $3.50 instead? As often as I tweaked my previously profiled windshield solar cooker, there remained a real wind problem (as it was constantly falling over in the unpredictable gusts that are SoCal&#8217;s weather), and it never seemed to get QUITE hot enough for me to trust cooking something like meat or eggs within. [...]]]></description>
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