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		<title>Find Bargains Fast with GarageSalesTracker.com</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/07/28/garagesalestracker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been to a garage sale yet this summer? It’s not too late to catch bargains in your own neighborhood or even at a distance, if you know where to look. Drive around your town most any weekend, and you’re likely to see garage sale signs posted on several residential corners. But there’s an easier way (and one that takes less gas) than cruising the neighborhood to look for bargains: GarageSalesTracker.com.

Blue Planet Green Living spoke today with GarageSalesTracker.com's head of marketing, Rich Ruddie, who assists founder Franz Longsworth with everything from "answering emails to contacting people about working together, to taking phone calls like this, to customer support, and everything in between." — Julia Wasson, Publisher

BPGL: How did the site get started?

RUDDIE: It came about when Franz was driving around and saw a garage sale sign. He wondered if anyone had ever thought to advertise their garage sales on line instead of always just putting out signs. He looked into it, and didn't find much of use. He decided to make a site that was easy to use, specifically with the bargain hunter in mind for garage sales, flea markets, and estate sales. He added the Google map feature, which allows the user, when you sign up, to get turn-by-turn directions from your home address to the garage sale. That way, people don't have to waste money on gas trying to find the address....]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteering Made Easy &#8211; Action Now + Network</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/07/13/action-now-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're like pretty much everyone else I know, you want to do "something" to help causes that are important to you. But your time is limited, and your demands are already huge. How do you find out what organizations support the issues that concern you and where you should expend your limited energy? Action Now + Network is a resource that will help you sort through the options available and choose one (or more) that is right for you.

Launched just two months ago, Action Now + Network is a new website that focuses on organizations that are doing real good for the world. Here's how founder Sheila Wasserman described Action Now + Network to Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) in an interview from her California office....

WASSERMAN: In this age of  Facebook, Twitter, and instant RSS feeds, it’s really impossible to claim ignorance of the world around us. We are all constantly bombarded at warp speed with information on the life-threatening issues we face every day — perilous geopolitical tensions, global warming, and the destruction of our environment, flagrant and egregious acts of cruelty inflicted by humans upon both humans and animals, not to mention hunger, poverty, homelessness, absent or woefully inadequate health care — it’s hard to know where to stop. For most of us, it is mind-numbing to think of what needs to be done to make even a small impact, let alone to solve the overwhelming problems of the world....]]></description>
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		<title>Children on MiniMonos Show Adults How Sustainability Is Done</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/06/18/minimonos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felicity Tepper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first met Melissa Clark-Reynolds, the CEO of MiniMonos, online. We connected through a shared love of the environment and children, as we followed one another’s “tweets”. Dedicated and deeply generous, Melissa has poured her love and values into developing the children’s website MiniMonos, a place where she hopes that children will learn and share ideas about sustainability, generosity, and caring for one another, all while having fun together.

An eco-friendly children’s virtual world, MiniMonos is underpinned by the values of sustainability, friendship, and generosity. The children assume monkey avatars and play on a virtual island, where caring for their environment forms an intrinsic part of the experience. Their in-world living treehouses require nourishment and care, including recycling to keep their treehouse tidy, and capturing clouds to power their tree’s wind turbine. The appealing games across MiniMonos Island carry underlying cooperative and eco-themes, rewarding the children for such activities as cleaning up a lagoon, using strategy, and sorting recyclables accurately....]]></description>
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		<title>Fairfield Green Food Guide &#8211; A Resource for Local Foods</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/04/21/fairfield-green-food-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fairfield Green Food Guide started out as a service to Fairfield County residents. But people all over the state are now watching the blog's founder, Analiese Paik, on New Channel 8's Good Morning Connecticut. Paik, who is dedicated to offering her services for free just to spread the word about local foods, is becoming a household name and a helpful resource for locavores across the state.

Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) spoke with Paik about the passion that drives her and what she hopes to accomplish with her website. Paik's 18-hour days take her all over the county, partnering with nonprofit organizations and sharing the news about healthy, organic, and local foods.

But, what if you're not from Connecticut, let alone Fairfield County? If you're a fan of sustainable agriculture, Paik offers resources and ideas that you will surely find intriguing....]]></description>
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		<title>My Wedding Workbook Simplifies Wedding Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/03/02/my-wedding-workbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Steve Feingertz's fiancée was planning their wedding, she wanted to find something besides a big paper binder to help her keep organized. But, she couldn’t find anything online.

So Feingertz and his business partner, Jeff Kear, set about creating My Wedding Workbook, an online site to help couples plan their weddings. The two men had been building websites together for about ten years, but they didn’t realize how much of an undertaking it would be, Kear says. The site now boasts 15,000 users since launching last year.

Kear and his intern, Rosanna Harding, both think of My Wedding Workbook as the “next-generation wedding planner.” The site is easy to use and helps D.I.Y. brides stay organized — often eliminating the need for a wedding planner and saving tons of money....]]></description>
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		<title>Green Living Means Leaving the Rat Race Behind</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/02/26/green-living-means-leaving-the-rat-race-behind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google "green living," and you'll get something like 64,000,000 hits (as of this post). There's more advice on the Internet about environmentalism than any single person could possibly read in a lifetime. And it's growing exponentially. At Blue Planet Green Living, we do our best to add value to the proposition of living a green lifestyle. Sometimes that means we point the way to another website that that has a unique perspective on the topic.

As I was reviewing comments for approval the other day, I came across a lengthy one from Patty Zevallos, who challenges readers to rethink the rat race and engage in true "Green Living" — which is, not surprisingly, the name of her blog. I was intrigued by what I read in her comment, and followed the link to Zevallos's website....]]></description>
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		<title>What Are You Waiting For? So Act, Already!</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/02/11/what-are-you-waiting-for-so-act-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Stella and Greg Halpern say, “We’re on a mission to build a better world,” they have the credentials to prove it. As the founders of So Act, a new social action network that’s connecting people around the globe, the Halperns are putting their goals into action.

We wanted to know what motivated the couple to create this ambitious network. So Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) spoke with the Halperns while they were traveling in California with their daughters, three talented musicians who go by the name Truth on Earth...]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind of World Do You Want?</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/12/28/what-kind-of-world-do-you-want/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/12/28/what-kind-of-world-do-you-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, as we say goodbye to 2009 and greet 2010, Blue Planet Green Living asks you the question posed by Five For Fighting in their song of the same name, &#8220;What Kind of World Do You Want?&#8221; Singer John Ondrasik of Five For Fighting invites all of us to create a video response to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search the Web and Plant a Tree with Swagbucks.com</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/08/24/search-the-web-and-plant-a-tree-with-swagbucks-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often do you use Google to search on line? If you’re a regular Web user, you might go there several times a day — maybe even a dozen or more. It’s convenient. It’s easy. But it’s an opportunity missed.

Swagbucks.com is a rewards-based search destination that provides users with the very same results you can get from Google and Ask. Give it a try. Go ahead, right now, if you like. Click on this link to Swagbucks.com and enter a search word or term, such as “Blue Planet Green Living." (But don’t sign up till you read this full article; there's a special offer below.) Then come back here to find out why you’ll want to use Swagbucks.com as your everyday search engine...]]></description>
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		<title>TED Challenges Old Thinking with Inspired Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/05/15/ted-challenges-old-thinking-with-inspired-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 04:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard of TED, I thought (admit it, some of you did, too) that TED was a person. I soon learned that the word is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. If you're not yet familiar with TED, you're missing out on a phenomenal resource for ideas worth hearing. The site hosts lectures, called TED Talks, by some of "the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes)." While I've viewed only a fraction of the 400+ TED Talks posted on the website, I've never been disappointed by the quality of the speaker or the importance of the information shared.

But, in my estimation, as brilliant as any speaker is the idea of TED itself...]]></description>
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