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		<title>The importance of buildings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Only 4 Percent of U.S. Adults Know That Buildings are Leading Source of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions&#8221; according to a recent survey. The press release is here, but not the full report. I&#8217;m a little hesitant about posting this &#8211; a press release isn&#8217;t verified data &#8211; but the topic is so relevant to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Freecycle.org &#8212; and a little about human nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long meant to try Freecycle, a forum set up to facilitate people&#8217;s giving things away rather than discarding them. Great idea, and as I move offices and change rooms at home I finally signed up for the western Mass group. Our old slow but working computers are far more popular than I ever dreamed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=162</link>
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		<title>The ecological beauty of human hair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to pick up a copy of Audubon magazine over the weekend. I admit that I&#8217;d thought of it as rather dull, a publication for retirees with too many pets and obsessed about animal protection above all other environmental concerns. But I was wrong. It was full of beautifully written articles about a wide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Simmons soaps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been big on product recommendations, not because I don&#8217;t like some products a lot but because I know I&#8217;m no expert on organic baby food or toilet paper. I tend more towards broad principles, because they&#8217;re easier to remember. Choose small things. Choose light things (concentrated products without much water, for example). But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=158</link>
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		<title>Green cleaning fudged again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I have read this statement, about &#8220;How to Clean Windows with Vinegar&#8221;: &#8220;If cleaning with vinegar left streaks on your windows, it wasn&#8217;t the fault of the vinegar, it was a residue left from commercial products.&#8221; I may even have made this statement in one of my own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=159</link>
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		<title>Sweet solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honey isn&#8217;t just an alternative spermicide (see &#8220;honey cap&#8221; post) but is being experimented with as a way to deal with superbugs in hospitals, according to &#8220;Sticky solution: Honey may help in the battle against superbugs,&#8221; an article that appeared in the Economist last year:
Research in Australia and New Zealand suggests that honey heals because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Straw bale gardening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I use straw bales for insulation against the back of my house and then mulch with the damp, dark straw in the spring, but in a quest for mesclun seed, which I think I can still plant, I found an amazing account of gardening in and on straw bales&#8211;two seasons of vegetables on a very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=156</link>
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		<title>McMansions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no right to be holier than thou and have never claimed to be a perfect when it comes to household matters, but I was a bit shocked by this story comparing Al Gore&#8217;s home to George W. Bush&#8217;s house in Texas. The excellent Urban Legends site, Scopes.com, says it&#8217;s true: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp.
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		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Food for body and soul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was doing a little weeding today and under the cauliflowers found a lot of reddish plants that I realized were young amaranth plants, small because they&#8217;re shaded by the cauli leaves. I count on the amaranth to reseed itself every year. It grows to six feet and has strange dangling furry red flowers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=151</link>
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		<title>Enough and no more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend told me not long ago that she wanted me to help her give her apartment an eco-makeover and especially, first thing, to advise her on what kind of cleaning products she should be buying. I felt like I punctured her enthusiasm a little when I said it didn’t matter all that much, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.armchairenvironmentalist.com/blog/?p=148</link>
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