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		<title>Slate Magazine - The Green Lantern</title>
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		<description>Illuminating answers to environmental questions.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:57:33 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Should we bother cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  I keep reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, that floating island of trash between California and Hawaii. Can we ever clean it up? And should we even bother?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2243538/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<category>the green lantern</category>
			<author>Nina Shen Rastogi</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:57:33 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Are kosher and halal meats safer or more environmentally friendly than regular meat?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  I usually buy organic, sustainably raised meats, but sometimes when I can't find them, I get kosher meat instead. Does that make environmental sense, or is the stuff approved by rabbis just as bad as anything else?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2242295/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<category>the green lantern</category>
			<author>Nina Shen Rastogi</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:23:34 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>What the Jan. 12 earthquake means for Haiti's ecosystem.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  The human toll of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti has been devastating, with the government reporting more than 150,000 dead in the Port-au-Prince area alone. What, if anything, does the disaster mean for the environment?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2242560/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<category>the green lantern</category>
			<author>Nina Shen Rastogi</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:33:46 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>What to do when you forget whether something can be recycled.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  I wonder about this one when I'm sorting kitchen waste: If you don't know whether something is recyclable, what's the best approach? Is it better to put the inscrutable item in the blue recycling bin, or should you just throw it in the trash?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2241073/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6486" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6486" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<category>the green lantern</category>
			<author>Nina Shen Rastogi</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:43:20 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Are glasses better for the planet than contact lenses?</title>
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			<category>the green lantern</category>
			<author>Nina Shen Rastogi</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:29:48 EST</pubDate>
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