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		<title>Where to find Slave-free chocolate for Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;m about to do another fair trade chocolate event for Valentine&#8217;s day and wanted to share with you all an indispensable resource I used last year. It&#8217;s is a table of various chocolate bars/companies that lists whether the chocolates are organic and/or fair trade, and where you can buy them. I used it to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1317&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Flaring in Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crunchy &#38; chic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; If you think the US Gulf Coast disaster was bad, you should check out the Niger delta. The environment and health of the people in that region have been devastated by the petroleum and oil industries, and when residents speak up, they&#8217;re literally silenced by the government—with the support of oil companies like Shell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1278&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Agriculture: A Question of Social Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpted essay from John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri. You can read the full essay and his other works at his faculty page here. The bolding is mine. Adam Smith, the father of contemporary economics, in his landmark book, Wealth of Nations, wrote: “No Society [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1249&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Site Will Blackout Against SOPA and PIPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Site Will Blackout Against SOPA and PIPA: learn how to black out yours, too: via Lorelle on WordPress. Filed under: Political<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1265&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The fierce urgency of Now&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crunchy &#38; chic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In mainstream American minds, Dr. King&#8217;s legacy has been truncated to a sound byte ripped of its context: judging not by the color of one&#8217;s skin, but by the content of one&#8217;s character*—a familiar refrain employed to challenge restorative measures among other things. The &#8220;fierce urgency of Now&#8221; has been conveniently forgotten, the warning against gradualism has been turned upon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1254&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marine Solar Cells Make The Most Of Sun And Waves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crunchy &#38; chic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an unusual hybrid, British industrial designer Phil Pauley created Marine Solar Cells that harness energy from both the sun and water. The web of energy generators capture energy off-shore, using a combination of floating photovoltaics and natural buoyancy displacement. Thanks to the reflective nature of water, the solar component’s efficiency is up to 20% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1236&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Cut in Fuel Subsidies Leads to a Rise in Gas Prices, and Anger and Protests in Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crunchy &#38; chic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only  4 days into the new year and we&#8217;ve already got troubling enviro-political news. This post is from Time&#8217;s &#8220;Ecocentric&#8221; blog: Africa’s most populous country is also a major oil exporter, producing some 2.4 million barrels of crude a day—and sending much of it to the U.S. You’d assume that all that oil would mean cheap [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1214&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ring in the new year with yummy hemp milk</title>
		<link>http://crunchyandchic.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/ring-in-the-new-year-with-yummy-hemp-milk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crunchy &#38; chic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a partly selfish post because it&#8217;s helping me get an entry to win this great prize package from Mountain Rose…but it&#8217;s also a delicious recipe that you can enjoy, so everyone wins! Creamy Cacao Hemp Milk Ingredients 1 cup Hemp Seeds, hulled 2 tsp sugar (or honey to taste) 1.5 tsp Acacia Gum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1209&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s resolutions for the newbie greenie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>crunchy &#38; chic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I was new to sustainable living (hey, you can&#8217;t fault a newborn for ignorance). The internet made finding information wonderfully quick and easy, but it also meant that I had an internet&#8217;s worth of knowledge to sort through—a relatively daunting task for someone in need of guidance. I can appreciate the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1185&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays</title>
		<link>http://crunchyandchic.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/happy-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[12 days of Christmas, 8 nights of Chanukah, Yule, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice…Whatever you celebrate, have a safe, healthy, and fulfilling holiday season. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: holiday<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crunchyandchic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10280971&amp;post=1180&amp;subd=crunchyandchic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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