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		<title>Want to be a green scientist?  With this site you can!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you've always secretly dreamed of helping save the natural world?  Now you can skip the scientific degrees and get busy helping out on these citizen science projects around the world~<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=507&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solutions From the Land Initiative</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Solutions From the Land initiative is a newly announced coalition of world government, universities and various NGOs which will be funded by The United Nations Foundation, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and Farm Foundation.  Formally launched about two weeks ago, the initiative is tasked with creating integrative land use systems which reduce hunger, improve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=503&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Far Without a Car</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/how-to-get-far-without-a-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you readers may recall when I made a pledge to sell my car in order to green my travel around the city.  It&#8217;s been more than three years now, and I&#8217;m happy to report that I haven&#8217;t died from lack of access to basic goods yet, so clearly, it IS possible to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=490&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Big Solar Projects for 2011</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/two-big-solar-projects-for-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here&#8217;s a rundown of a couple big solar projects announced this year.  The first has actually been in the works for several years now.  Arizona-based First Solar has teamed up with China to build what will be the world&#8217;s largest solar farm (2 Gigawatts!) in a remote area of Inner Mongolia. Though the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=486&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turning a landfill into an energy hill</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/turning-a-landfill-into-an-energy-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been chatter recently among members of the environmental movement that it makes little sense to create enormous solar farms on pristine desert land in the American Southwest when there are so many structures and other urban locations for installing solar power.  Well, here&#8217;s one community in Georgia that&#8217;s giving their local landfill the ultimate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=480&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solarious, the Sequel</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/solarious-the-sequel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it's essential that as people in the greater public come with questions about being green, what they see is a message of sustainability, one that respects nature and our place within, one that doesn't gloss over the issues at hand in order not to scare away potential advocates, and one being delivered by people who live whole, happy lives that just don't happen to hurt the planet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=476&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting that Green</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/getting-that-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This site has a really nice state by state listing of the certifications you can get. National Programs are listed too, and there&#8217;s a nice resources page behind the scenes too. I&#8217;m getting ready to publish a spreadsheet to the Solarious site which contains the contact information for photovoltaic training sites around the US. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=474&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes Yes Yes!</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/yes-yes-yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The age of truly renewable energy is arriving. And scientists and dreamers are taking the technologies far beyond things that generate power under certain conditions to envision ways that we can integrate power generation into our existing life patterns. Check out these five emerging technologies, outlined in H+ Magazine, that show promise to change the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=473&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another interesting thin-film CIGS application</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/another-interesting-thin-film-cigs-application/</link>
		<comments>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/another-interesting-thin-film-cigs-application/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heliovolt is another company tackling the task of bringing thin-film solar technologies, which have traditionally been to expensive for mass deployment in to the reach of the general public. Their patented FASST technology looks very promising. If you are a developer or engineer, they are currently seeking people to partner with on photovoltaic integrated design [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=472&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Very cool: Konarka Power Plastic</title>
		<link>http://solarious.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/very-cool-konarka-power-plastic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDF below for a really nice look into the future at Konarka, which manufactures thin film flexible solar panels. I especially like their solar Power Thread technology, which promises to make solar power generation available in the actual thread structure of woven garments and cloth items such as Sunbrellas. They still have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solarious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064320&amp;post=471&amp;subd=solarious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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