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		<title>Oxfam Makes a Difference in Supporting International Food Aid &#8211; Leading the Way to a More Sustainable Food Sytem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Written by Oxfam For many people, buying local makes sense. Whether the goal is reducing your carbon footprint, eating fresher food, or simply supporting the local economy, buying local can be a powerfully cost-efficient way to make an impact. Congress should apply the same logic to saving lives by buying international food aid locally. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Clothing Drive at the Chicago Green Festival this weekend to benefit New Moms, Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Good Karma Clothing for Kids will be accepting donations of gently used baby clothing at its booth inside the Green Kids’ Zone at the Chicago Green Festival at Navy Pier, Saturday and Sunday, May 5th and 6th. All donations will benefit New Moms, Inc. Chicago, IL &#8211; April 30, 2012 Do you have a closet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Annual Green Metropolis Fair Celebrates Earth Month April 14 at Chicago’s New Green Exchange Building!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Chicago (Feb. 14, 2012) Once again, Chicago’s Green Metropolis Fair will bring the local conscious community together on April 14 to officially celebrate Earth Month. This year, the Fair will be held at the Green Exchange Building, 2545 W. Diversey, Chicago’s premier sustainable business community. “The vision for Green Exchange has always been about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HandCrafting Justice to Feature Recycled Phonebook Handbag at NYC Green Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet April 11, 2012 - In recognition of the Earth Day celebration at this year’s New York City Green Festival, HandCrafting Justice will be displaying their one-of-a-kind recycled phonebook handbags crafted by Filipino women artisans from the Alay Kapwa community in Manila. These bags transform old telephone directories into a practical, everyday accessory. Through innovative thinking, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shorty Award in the #Green category goes to @jerryjamesstone! Green Festival to plant a tree for every vote&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Green Festival guerrilla sponsored the 2012 Social Media Shorty Awards in the category of green by vowing to plant a tree for every vote the #green winner received. We nominated Jerry James Stone &#8211; and he won! At a ceremony in New York City, the Shorty Awards announced @JerryJamesStone is the winner of Twitter&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York City Proposing Adding Greenhouses to Rooftops</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet It might be hard to think of a place like New York City as farmland, but rooftops all across one of the most populated metropolitan areas in the world could soon become fields of green, if an environmental proposal gets a  thumbs up. The proposed zoning changes would allow more greenhouses to be built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swap, Don’t Shop: Making Green in the Sharing Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet The Sustainable Business Committee of the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York invites you to&#8230; MAKING GREEN FROM GREEN Swap, Don’t Shop: Making Green in the Sharing Economy From Stephen Colbert’s Toasterster to Peer-to-Peer banking, collaborative consumption is changing the way we think about ownership and opportunity. Join us as a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DotGreen and EarthShare Partner to Advance Global Green Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet .green domain name sales to help fund the green movement. GREENBRAE, California (PRWEB) April 11, 2012 EarthShare, a non-profit federation that raises and distributes funds to environmental initiatives, and The DotGreen Community, Inc., the registry applicant for the .green top-level domain (TLD), will collaborate to distribute grants from sales of registrations in the .green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Green Festival After Party to be at GreenHouse in SoHo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet On Saturday night April 21 7-11pm everyone’s invited to Green Festivals’ Official After Party at GREENHOUSE New York City’s first eco-friendly nightlife destination. Co-produced by NYC artist Squala Orphan and Asheville’s twingravity.com &#38; lush life productions - The GREENHOUSE celebrates Green Festivals’s first foray into NYC as an official Partner of the oldest and most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing UAGC and GreenHomeNYC’s Energy Efficient Building Operator Classes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet GreenHomeNYC and the Urban Assembly for Green Careers Want to Cut Your Building’s Energy and Water Bills by up to 40%. If you are a building owner, manager, coop/condo member, super, bookkeeper/comptroller, or just want to learn how multifamily buildings use and waste energy and water, you need to take the Energy Efficient Building [...]]]></description>
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