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	<title>Onward Oregon Blog &#187; Livability</title>
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	<description>Here are snippets from the three most-recent postings. Click an article title below to read more.</description>
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		<title>The Story of Stuff</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/the-story-of-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ray</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Must see: in just a few minutes of Flash video, Annie Leonard breaks down our consumer society into its various parts. She makes it all fun and easy to follow, while at the same time creating a powerful indictment of the modern American lifestyle.
Watch it and tell your friends and family:
www.StoryofStuff.com
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		<title>Governor open to liquefied natural gas plants</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/governor-open-to-liquefied-natural-gas-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/governor-open-to-liquefied-natural-gas-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Ray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take Action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the AP reported on our Gov&#8217;s status regarding LNG terminals, storage facilities and pipelines (see below). To learn more about this item, please see our action alert.
Governor open to liquefied natural gas plants
Kulongoski says Oregon could benefit from them
The Associated Press
November 30, 2007
ASTORIA &#8212; Gov. Ted Kulongoski is open to the idea of liquefied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less is best</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/less-is-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Livability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coming to Portland recently was the easiest move I&#8217;ve made in a&#8230;well, let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s been my easiest move ever. It&#8217;s a friendly big city, which is rare. People reach out and encourage new ideas, helping out with advice when asked, jump at the chance to collaborate over coffee.
 Also, I&#8217;m finding that Portland lives up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worthy Lane County sustainability event, 11/13, 6:30 p.m.</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/worthy-lane-county-sustainability-event-1113-630-pm/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/worthy-lane-county-sustainability-event-1113-630-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Zako of OTRAN sends this important announcement:
How is ODOT addressing climate change?
a presentation by
Damon Fordham
ODOT Sustainability Manager
Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 pm
Lawrence Hall, Room 206
University of Oregon campus, Eugene
This event is being sponsored by “Live Move,” the Transportation and Livability Student Group at the UO:  http://www.uoregon.edu/~livemove/
Additional support is being provided by  the Oregon Transportation Research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ed policy with a future</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/an-ed-policy-with-a-future/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/an-ed-policy-with-a-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So the Salem Statesman-Journal (a Gannett paper) runs this editorial in its on-line forum:
Going to college more crucial now than ever
Families must find a way to support youths&#8217; educations
November 6, 2007
If you&#8217;re the parent of a young student and you can&#8217;t imagine how you&#8217;ll afford college for him or her, please stop that thought at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why biofuels matter so much</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/why-biofuels-matter-so-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short answer:  because biofuels are about taking money from people who are going to be extremely hard-pressed and giving it to corporations in the guise of a futile attempt to preserve the fantasy that we can maintain an auto-based life.   There&#8217;s the direct problem with the policy, but even more that that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Lifestyles</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/green-lifestyles/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/green-lifestyles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.D. Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equal/Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you may be aware, the green lifestyle encompasses many different forms and philosophies, to the extent that the movement has become somewhat fragmented. What it loses in focus it makes up for in the diversity of the approaches that are evolving to heal our environment. In this blog I’ve attempted to gather this information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green housing in Portland</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/green-housing-in-portland/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/green-housing-in-portland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ranjit Bhaskar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you look around the area at many homes under construction, you&#8217;ll note that builders are abandoning plans for upscale amenities and instead simply focusing on getting a house to market as quickly and cheaply as possible.  Some of these compromises are impacting builders of eco-friendly housing as the market now prioritizes price over energy efficiency. 
Against this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An energy policy Oregon _really_ needs: the right to dry</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/an-energy-policy-oregon-_really_-needs-the-right-to-dry/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/an-energy-policy-oregon-_really_-needs-the-right-to-dry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Seldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The right to dry.  On a clothesline. 


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The Right to Dry:
A Green Movement Is Roiling America
Clothesline Has Neighbors
Bent Out of Shape in Bend;
An Illegal Solar Device?
By ANNE MARIE CHAKER
September 18, 2007; Page A1

BEND, Ore. &#8212; It was a sunny, 70-degree day here in Awbrey Butte, an exclusive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentrification revisited</title>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/gentrification-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ranjit Bhaskar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Livability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, the local grassroots &#8220;Bus Project&#8221; organization held another in a series of debates about issues relevant to our community.  The topic du jour happened to be the impact of gentrification on the city of Portland.  Use of the term, gentrification, is itself contentious, having evolved to absorb hints of racism mixed into [...]]]></description>
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