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	<title>Healthy and Green Living &#187; Green Chi</title>
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		<title>What Should I Do About My Oil Bill? Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, dear readers, for all the suggestions on how to lower my oil bill. You have opened my mind to many options. This is exciting, because even though I read a lot and am quite well educated on issues of sustainability, there were suggested techniques I didn&#8217;t know about.
Equipped with new ideas and insights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annie Asks You: What Should I Do About My Oil Bill?</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/annie-asks-you-what-to-do-about-my-oil-bill.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Reduce, Recycle &amp; Reuse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[heating]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[prices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kill me now. My oil company estimates that my heating bill this winter will be $5,000! Yes, there are three zero&#8217;s at the end. You may be thinking that I live in a mansion, but no. My two-story house is 2,500 square feet with three bedrooms. Six years ago the bill was around $1,200 a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green: The Way of Conscious Harmlessness</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/green-the-way-of-conscious-harmlessness.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Chi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reduce, Recycle &amp; Reuse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter Lily  wrote in one of  her The Adventures of Green Girl blogs on Care2 that &#8220;Growing up &#8216;green,&#8217; I was not only non-toxic physically, but I was also mentally non-toxic, if you will. Meaning, I had learned ways of freeing poisonous thoughts and feelings from my mind and from my emotions.&#8221;
Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Chi: Prophecies and a Shifting Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/green-chi-prophecies-and-a-shifting-earth.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Green Chi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[2012 prophecy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Beyond 2012]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Drunvalo Melchizedek]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Serpent of Light]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took me 14 hours to get to the Chicago Green Festival. I am nothing if not intrepid. I missed a flight connection in Philadelphia because of the weather and found myself mired in the challenges written about in Thomas Friedman&#8217;s The World is Flat. While trying to reschedule my flight via phone, I encountered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Chi:  The Human Gift to the Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/green-chi-the-human-gift-to-the-earth.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/green-chi-the-human-gift-to-the-earth.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Green Chi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reduce, Recycle &amp; Reuse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There must have been a Dance of the Turkeys on my driveway last night. While out walking this morning, I saw at least 40 turkey footprints, and there were some very big ones indeed,  with a middle toe of about 5 inches! A few deer hoofs were tracked into the mud, too, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Chi:  In Favor of an (Organic) Cutting Garden</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/green-chi-in-favor-of-an-organic-cutting-garden.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 22:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Green Chi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Home Decor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nature Activities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bring nature indoors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cut flowers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cutting garden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My English professor father was a remarkable gardener. There were perennials all over our land, and as I grew up, one of my pleasures was picking flowers and putting them into just the right vase in just the right place in the house. My mother loved to do this, too. She would always place cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Chi:  Fabrics With a Good Hand</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/fabrics-with-a-good-hand.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/fabrics-with-a-good-hand.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Chi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Home Decor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bamboo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eco-fashion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environmental health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[green fashion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[natural fiber]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wool]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I shop for clothes my hand reaches out as soon as my eyes spot a color and texture that  appeals to me, to feel if the fabric has a “good hand.”  The fabric hand connects me immediately to my senses, my body, to how the clothing feels, to its sensuality, to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lesson in Being Present</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-lesson-in-being-present.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-lesson-in-being-present.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lila is an elderly woman with silver hair who I met recently at a Tibetan Buddhist center in my area. A tall, willowy woman, she has piercing, but kind, blue eyes. Despite her age, she is very upright and spry, while her husband, Greg, is doubled over with arthritis. He, too, has very kind eyes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Chi:  Set the Tone with Cloth Napkins</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/set-the-tone-cloth-napkins.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/set-the-tone-cloth-napkins.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[home]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[napkins]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recycing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a quiet pleasure to go to the cabinet and take out cloth napkins for a weeknight supper at my fiancé Len’s house. I’d given the napkins to him as a gift a few months ago. I bought him an everyday set, as well as a set for festive occasions. I am sure that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Green Chi</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/introducing-green-chi.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/introducing-green-chi.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie B. Bond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I could make baby booties, I thought. Or weave tablecloths. Loving fabrics, yarns and weaving the way I did, I figured that maybe I could make an income doing a crafty cottage industry from home. This was 19 years ago, and I was wracking my brain for ways that I could work from home after [...]]]></description>
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