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	<title>The Off Grid Home.com &#187; designing green</title>
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		<title>Does Your City Have Green Roofs?</title>
		<link>http://theoffgridhome.com/2008/04/30/does-your-city-have-green-roofs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Mead</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[green building]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having a green roof is becoming the thing to do in urban environments and Green Roofs for Healthy CIties is an organization all about that.  They have also a list of top ten cities with green roofs in North America.  They are:

Chicago, Il
Wilmington, DE
Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn, NY 
Virgina Beach, VA
Royersford, PA 
Tronto, On 
Calgary, AB 
Washington D.C. 
Philadelphia, PA 

Last year there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REGREEN when you ReModel</title>
		<link>http://theoffgridhome.com/2008/04/11/regreen-when-you-remodel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Mead</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting in March 2008 those of us who wish to remodel, rehab, or gut either part or our entire existing homes now have a program and guidelines to help us make them as green as possible.  New construction has the LEED program to help guide and find products needed to make them green.  Now the U.S. Green Building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Your Landscaping Green</title>
		<link>http://theoffgridhome.com/2008/03/10/make-your-landscaping-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Mead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Composting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Green or natural landscaping ,also known as native gardening , is when you use indigenous plants in your residential or commercial landscaped gardens.  These plants can include local ones such as grasses, ground-cover, wildflowers, shrubs, and trees, as well as using boulders, rocks and locally found material to border theses plantings.  Making the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Not Traditional Lanscaping</title>
		<link>http://theoffgridhome.com/2008/03/05/why-not-traditional-lanscaping/</link>
		<comments>http://theoffgridhome.com/2008/03/05/why-not-traditional-lanscaping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Mead</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some  problems with traditional lanscaping are water pollution, air pollution, noisew pollution, consumption of our natural resources, produces solid waste, harmful to health and safety, declining biodeiversity, flooding, and to top it off it&#8217;s labor and cost intensive.
Homeowners over-apply pesticides and fertilizers often more than that of farmers. Additionaly people dump excess pesticides on the ground, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Choices Grow with Energy Star Qualified Buildings</title>
		<link>http://theoffgridhome.com/2008/02/25/green-choices-grow-with-energy-star-qualified-buildings/</link>
		<comments>http://theoffgridhome.com/2008/02/25/green-choices-grow-with-energy-star-qualified-buildings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Mead</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Home Construction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Washington, D.C. - Feb. 12, 2008) Finding energy efficient schools, supermarkets, offices, and other facilities throughout the country has become even easier for Americans interested in being green. Now they can find the Energy Star not only where they live but where they work, shop, play and learn. The number of commercial buildings and manufacturing [...]]]></description>
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