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		<title>A Trip to the Farmer&#8217;s Market with Smelly Scraps in Tow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago (oh my how time flies!!) as I approached my 46th birthday I wrote all about how I was going to get a composter and start composting at home.&#160; Well as it turned out, I never got that composter.&#160; Not sure if it was the price or space needed in my kitchen or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EcoPlum Salutes Green Moms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost Mother&#8217;s Day!  Yay!  One of my favorite days of the year!  I recently attended an event about food waste, moderated by Ron Gonen, the Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation and co-founder of Recyclebank.  Ron mentioned that the composting pilot, started by a few of my close friends in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gift Giving Returns with the Spring &#8211; Make it Eco Friendly!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think you are out of the woods with gift giving, the spring season returns with all kinds of consumer driven holidays: Easter, Mother&#8217;s and Father&#8217;s Day, Graduations, and all those spring birthdays! For us treehuggers, it would be nice if we could just give the gift of love or a hug and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecoplum.com/blog/gift-giving-returns-with-the-spring-make-it-eco-friendly/</link>
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		<title>Gia&#8217;s Tips on Safe Cosmetics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like this vlogging thing. It&#8217;s much easier than writing. I&#8217;ll continue to use the excuse that I have a broken finger as long as I can to make these videos instead of writing a post. This month I touch upon the subject of hazardous chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products and give a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Five Reasons 2012 Made Us Pay Attention to Climate Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year when we look back and reflect on the past year and make silly lists.  Well this list is far from silly &#8211; it is quite sobering news for many of us to accept.  In 2012, climate change came to the forefront.  Here are 5 reasons why: 5) 2012 was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecoplum.com/blog/top-ten-reasons-2012-made-us-pay-attention-to-climate-change/</link>
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		<title>Eco Friendly Gift Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY HOLIDAYS!  If you could take 6 1/2 minutes to watch this video of me showcasing some of my favorite eco friendly gift selections from EcoPlum &#8211; I would greatly appreciate it!  The self produced video is completely amateurish and quite unprofessionally edited, but try to look past the rough transitions, enjoy, and have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sound of Silence &#8211; In the Wake of Another Extreme Weather Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how the absence of something can have such a profound impact.  The absence of noise.  Not ALL noise is gone (this IS New York City after all), but one particular type of noise is missing.  That earth rattling, ground shaking, sky filling, all encompassing sound of jet engines accelerating during take-off.  With three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecoplum.com/blog/the-sound-of-silence-in-the-wake-of-another-extreme-weather-event/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s 9/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the post I wrote last year on the 10th anniversary of 9/11: Ten years later by Gia on September 10, 2011 Ten years.  Ten years since the most terrifying day of my life.  A day that filled me with fear and shock and horror and unbelievable sadness.  A day that brought loss and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecoplum.com/blog/its-911/</link>
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		<title>The Itsy Bitsy Spider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a blogger and publisher of a green media site I get a lot of emails from people sharing their thoughts and asking for my advice (for whatever it&#8217;s worth).  One email I got recently from somebody I&#8217;ll call &#8220;Jane&#8221; had me a little at a loss for a proper response.  Jane wrote: &#8220;Hi! I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecoplum.com/blog/the-itsy-bitsy-spider/</link>
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		<title>Power to the People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to speak about my career along with some other sustainability professionals at a 7th grade sustainability class at Columbia Secondary School in NYC.  First, let&#8217;s take a step back: Isn&#8217;t it amazing that there even IS a 7th grade sustainability class?  When I was in 7th grade, [...]]]></description>
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