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		<title>Macedonia Plants 5 Million New Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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The tiny Balkan country greets spring – and safeguards the environment – with a massive reforestation initiative.
By Chris Deliso
SKOPJE, Macedonia – Campaign season has arrived in Macedonia, with presidential and municipal elections next Sunday. Nevertheless, the locals made time for the third installment of the “Day of the Tree” initiative that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Karen Kawawada
 RECORD STAFF
WATERLOO
Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.
After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Offshore Wind Decision Hailed As Big Step Forward For Clean Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephcolin</dc:creator>
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by WIND DAILY
In the wake of the Earth Day action by President Barack Obama and Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar on new guidelines clearing the way for major offshore wind projects, the following statement was issued by Clean Power Now and TheClean.org.
The nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute think tank is a convener of TheClean.org.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch how 50000 people cleaned up Estonia</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2009/05/watch-how-50000-people-cleaned-up-estonia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 16:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May 2008 a massive country-wide clean-up day took place, bringing together more than 50 000 volunteers to clean-up illegal waste from all over the Estonian countryside. This extraordinary project helped to change the waste department system as well as public perspectives on the environment and the possibilities for civic action.
Last year, 650 active people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damaged Barrier Reef coral makes &#8217;spectacular&#8217; recovery</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2009/04/damaged-barrier-reef-coral-makes-spectacular-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephcolin</dc:creator>
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Lucky combination of circumstances means corals have unexpectedly grown back within a year.
By Jessica Aldred, guardian.co.uk
Sections of coral reef in Australia&#8217;s Great Barrier Reef have made a &#8220;spectacular&#8221; recovery from a devastating bleaching event three years ago, marine scientists say.
In 2006, high sea temperatures caused severe coral bleaching in the Keppell Islands, in the southern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Swede Saves Sharks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six year old Marcus Marcus, who lives in Sweden, was outraged when he heard about sharks having their fins cut off to make soup. Immediately, he decided to take action and start his very own &#8220;Save the Shark Campaign&#8221;. &#8220;Well, you must do something&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. You must do something!&#8221;
When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedal People Put the Cycling in Recycling</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2009/04/pedal-people-put-the-cycling-in-recycling/</link>
		<comments>http://woohooreport.com/2009/04/pedal-people-put-the-cycling-in-recycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephcolin</dc:creator>
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by Laura Kaliebe
Alex Jarrett, 33, has never owned a car. Around town, he gets almost everywhere he needs to go by the power of his own two feet—walking or biking. So it seems only natural that Jarrett’s business, which he started with Ruthy Woodring in 2002, is bicycle-based.
Jarrett and Woodring are the founders of Pedal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can &#8216;biochar&#8217; save the planet?</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2009/04/can-biochar-save-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephcolin</dc:creator>
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By Azadeh Ansari
CNN
ATHENS, Georgia (CNN) &#8212; Over the railroad tracks, near Agriculture Drive on the University of Georgia campus, sits a unique machine that may hold one of the solutions to big environmental problems like energy, food production and even global climate change.
&#8220;This machine right here is our baby,&#8221; said UGA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Agriculture: A will and a way for Allen</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2009/03/urban-agriculture-a-will-and-a-way-for-allen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephcolin</dc:creator>
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MacArthur grant aids urban farmer’s quest to bring fresh food to inner city
By KAREN HERZOG and LEE BERGQUIST
Will Allen was cutting heads of lettuce in a farm field when his cell phone rang.
The caller told him to put down his knife. He had good news:
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Space Agency hopes to clean up space junk</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2009/03/european-space-agency-hopes-to-clean-up-space-junk/</link>
		<comments>http://woohooreport.com/2009/03/european-space-agency-hopes-to-clean-up-space-junk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephcolin</dc:creator>
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By MELISSA EDDY 
Associated Press Writer
DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) &#8212; Wary of the multitude of satellites in earth&#8217;s orbit, the European Space Agency has begun a program to monitor space debris and set up uniform standards to prevent future collisions far above the planet, an official said Monday.
The euro50 million ($64 million) program &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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