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	<title>My Green Australia &#187; carbon footprint</title>
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		<title>Be a true Environ-RENTAList &#8211; how to rent and be green!</title>
		<link>http://www.mygreenaustralia.com/2010/07/be-a-true-environ-rentalist-how-to-rent-and-be-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		There is a huge property boom in Australia at the moment and with the cost of houses versus the cost of renting, the choice for some is pretty clear for some people. But renting doesn&#8217;t mean you have to stop being green!You may feel as if you have no control over certain things in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition for Fire Awareness stimulates thinking about bushfire prevention.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		I just thought this needed to be posted!  We should all be thinking about fires now while it is still cool.  Get out with the scythe, tractor, mower, whipper snipper etc. etc. and clean up the areas around buildings.  The results of this competition may save lives!Entries for the 2010 Fire Awareness Awards are now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Green’ Fireworks – can you really launch heavy metals into the air safely?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		Fireworks are used at every major celebration all around the world and it’s probably a bit of a downer to start analyzing just how bad they can be for the environment.  Along with other fun stuff (helium balloons and confetti, the paint from paintball and shotgun pellets) they have a dark side.  Remember, what goes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dyeing to renovate your wardrobe.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		It’s hard to look at tie-dyed clothes without taking a trip back in time &#8211; But fear not! There are other ways to dye and be fabulous too!
The sharpest ‘dye’ effect for these days is the graduated colour or Ombré Dyeing look which has subtle graduations of colour moving up the garment.  It can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fund a forest, save the world.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		In simple terms, old-growth forests and clean oceans, through their absorption of massive quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere, are our greatest army to fight climate change.  They are the lungs through which the world breathes, filtering out all kinds of pollutants.  Governments know this.  They plant buffers of quick growing, high respirating trees, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethanol: The Fuel of the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.mygreenaustralia.com/2010/06/ethanol-the-fuel-of-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		Jennifer Tomkinson at The Green Times has a great article on the use of ethanol as a replacement for regular petrol. 
Ethanol is most  commonly made from the bi-products of sugar and wheat production, and  does not need to use food crops. In fact, the Victorian Government is  part of a consortium, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15 Ways to Break Bad Habits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		It seems to me that the horrors man has wreaked on the environment are, largely, rooted in ‘bad habits’.  I ask around here, ‘Why do people drop trash and chewing gum in the streets?’.  The answer is always ‘People have always done that.’  Yet I see pristine beaches where ‘someone else’ has taken charge, posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much power does your house suck up?</title>
		<link>http://www.mygreenaustralia.com/2010/06/how-much-power-does-your-house-suck-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		I just found a terrific site that shows you how to calculate the power usage of all your appliances.  I was wondering whether our TV is a guzzler as often I tune it to its radio stations and listen to that.  Of course it is double power usage as it needs the tuner plus the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Trust Us” Is Getting Old</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		When British Petroleum (BP) applied for a permit to build the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico and begin drilling, it claimed to have the technology and know-how to handle any oil spill.
But in the face of an actual spill, BP is much less confident. “This scares everybody: the fact that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoe poverty is relative.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		One of the good things about traveling is that it alerts you to the ways of life of  others. It CAN (provided you keep your eyes and ears open) stop you pining for that new pair of  Stuart Weitzman’s Ruby Slippers and make you realize that all you need is a few pairs of Spalding [...]]]></description>
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