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		<title>Sustainability is a State of Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louise Schlatter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No. I am not asking you to read my mind. I am not denigrating nor supporting global climate change. I am suggesting to you the things you do and how you think make a difference. The culture you live in depends on you to embrace it for it to continue, to make it sustainable. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greening the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Accardo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 13 year old daughter’s Christmas list this year started out with gift cards &#8230; only gift cards. Until she realized &#8230; we weren’t going to buy them. Each year as the kids get older it gets harder to shop for them. The $10 gift requests are long gone when Barbie was the gift of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2012 International Energy Code</title>
		<link>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/the-2012-international-energy-code/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-2012-international-energy-code</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/the-2012-international-energy-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Krager, NCARB, LEED AP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goal:  Net Zero Buildings by 2030. This is the track of government required green design. The 2012 version of the International Energy Code code is about 30% more stringent than the 2006 version. High efficiency HVAC, more efficient lighting systems, and onsite renewables are options for complying with the code. An energy cost analysis will be required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Will Be a Make-or-Break Year for Alternative Energy Technologies</title>
		<link>http://blog.ssoe.com/alternative-energy/2012-will-be-a-make-or-break-year-for-alternative-energy-technologies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=2012-will-be-a-make-or-break-year-for-alternative-energy-technologies</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ssoe.com/alternative-energy/2012-will-be-a-make-or-break-year-for-alternative-energy-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Carter, LEED AP</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year will prove pivotal for alternative energy technologies. If you consider the economy, the political climate, the state of the technologies, and recent events, developing a reliable forecast for how things will look a year from now is impossible. Let’s look a little deeper into each of these areas to see what has happened, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Paperless Makes a Difference!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/going-paperless-makes-a-difference/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=going-paperless-makes-a-difference</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wilson, PE, LEED AP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going paperless does make a difference for the environment in many ways (saves forests from being harvested for paper production and reduces the use of oil and energy in the harvesting, manufacturing, and shipping of paper from cradle to grave. In the construction industry considerable paper is used in “shop drawing” submittals for equipment, materials, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Gas Stations: Fad or Future?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/green-gas-stations-fad-or-future/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=green-gas-stations-fad-or-future</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Klein, LEED AP</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, they really exist. Since around 2001, a handful of “green” gas stations have started springing up, boasting one degree or another of environmental consciousness. Opinion seems to be equally divided on whether these pioneering efforts are cynical attempts at “greenwashing”, the beginnings of a genuine trend to make filling stations cleaner, or some kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEED® in a Weight Watchers© World</title>
		<link>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/leed-in-a-weight-watchers-world/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=leed-in-a-weight-watchers-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Siebenaller, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We need LEED® like we need Weight Watchers©. Insert a serious or sarcastic inflection to meet your own point of view, but its true! Weight Watchers© isn’t about losing weight, it’s about stopping one nutritional life style and starting another. To participate requires setting goals, tracking points, attending support meetings (and paying for that support), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable Energy Sources: How Do They Work?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/renewable-energy-sources-how-do-they-work/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=renewable-energy-sources-how-do-they-work</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/renewable-energy-sources-how-do-they-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Corey Zachel, PE, LEED AP BD+C</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LEED certification is becoming more appealing to facility owners across numerous industries. One credit to help obtain this certification is On Site Renewable Energy. This credit is obtained by installing equipment that harvests regionally prevalent renewable energy sources to produce electricity and shed municipal power consumption within the boundary of a facility. This system is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes a Community to Be Sustainable</title>
		<link>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/it-takes-a-community-to-be-sustainable/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=it-takes-a-community-to-be-sustainable</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/it-takes-a-community-to-be-sustainable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Platsis, CEM, LEED AP</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They say it takes a village to raise a child. Or, in other words, children are not solely brought up by their parents, but by the communities they live in as well. According to this proverb, everyone is responsible and plays a role. I think this principle is also very fitting when it comes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Junk Mail</title>
		<link>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/stop-junk-mail/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=stop-junk-mail</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ssoe.com/sustainability/stop-junk-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 12:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Orlich, AIA, LEED AP</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you get irritated with all the unwanted catalogs you keep getting in the mail like I do?  There&#8217;s an easy way to make sure you never get those unwanted catalogs again. Catalog Choice is a non-profit service that will contact catalog companies and make sure they don&#8217;t sell your information or send you anymore catalogs.  You may join [...]]]></description>
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