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	<title>Blue Planet Green Living &#187; Profiles</title>
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		<title>My 5: Richard Heap, Filmmaker</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/11/27/my-5-richard-heap-filmmaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British filmmaker Richard Heap (Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast) recently responded to the two questions we most often ask those we interview. We found his responses insightful. See what you think. — Julia Wasson, Publisher]]></description>
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		<title>Sailors for the Sea Encourages Ocean Conservation</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/15/sailors-for-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the official sustainability partner with America’s Cup, Sailors for the Sea is reaching their largest audience to date.

Sailors for the Sea educates sailors and boaters about protecting the oceans. Their partnership with America’s Cup, a race between two yachts that is the oldest trophy in international sport, allows them to reach sailors from countries around the world.

“Now, we are moving to an international level,” explains Dan Pingaro, CEO. “[Sailors] can make a positive difference on the ocean,” he says.

Pingaro says involving sailors is imperative because of the problems facing our oceans today, including a changing pH balance and plastics floating in the water. The changing pH balance has an impact on shellfish, coral fish, and feeder fish for larger ocean dwellers. And plastic trash is the major component of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, among other polluted areas....]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Planet: A Play in Two Acts</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/01/moving-planet-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby Seixas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, climate advocates and activists in more than 180 countries performed in over 2000 showings of what may very well have been the world’s largest production to date: Moving Planet. Billed as “A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels” and built on the backs of tens of thousands of impassioned participants, “energy” was both the central theme and the real star of this show. The production—massive in size and yet purposefully carbon-light—focused on moving our world from dirty energy to clean energy while showcasing the human energy powering the movement....]]></description>
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		<title>Ryan Gourley, Contributing Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/01/ryan-gourley-contributing-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby Seixas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Gourley is an organizer for Moving Planet and the Iowa City Climate Advocates, a local division of the Iowa Climate Advocates.

A native Iowan, Ryan received his Bachelor's degrees from The University of Iowa, where he studied psychology, communication, and theatre. He combines this background with his interest in healthcare as a research specialist for the Iowa City VA Health Care System and a communication instructor for The University of Iowa Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy....]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneers for the Planet: The High Wind Story</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/09/16/high-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam Kashia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a windswept acreage overlooking a lush valley in mid-eastern Wisconsin, a small group of committed visionaries sowed a seed for change called High Wind, an “intentional community” that grew and blossomed in the late 1970s and 1980s. Although its life as an intentional community formally ended in 1992, the ecovillage legacy of High Wind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tab for a Cause — An Easy Way to Raise Funds for Charity</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/08/28/tab-for-a-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?

My answer to this question is always the same: Pay my tuition. Most college students don’t have money to spare, and if you manage to earn a few bucks, it goes towards books or school supplies. So, when someone asks you to donate to charity, it’s hard to contribute.

Four college students – Kevin Jennison, Alex Groth, Joel Detweiler, and Sam Ward-Packard tackled this problem. On August 4th they launched Tab for a Cause (TFAC), a browser extension that allows the user to donate to charity simply by opening a new tab....]]></description>
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		<title>VeeV Greens the Liquor Industry with Sustainable Spirits Made from Acai</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/08/20/veev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When brothers Courtney and Carter Reum decided to launch a spirits company, they were open to different possibilities—but one element of the concept was a certainty. “We knew it would include a sustainability component,” Courtney Reum says. “Nobody was doing anything sustainable in alcohol. There was a lack of innovation. So we realized we had a chance to do something really unique.”


The brothers resigned their positions as investment bankers with Goldman Sachs and set out to “green” the liquor industry.

That was four years and more than 500,000 bottles ago. Since the first 7,500-bottle batch of VeeV Acai Spirit™ came off the line at Rigby, Idaho-based Distilled Resources Inc., this duo has racked up some pretty compelling eco-cred....]]></description>
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		<title>Graphic Designer Combines Art and Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/07/29/designarchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes courage to look at your profession and say, “We are part of the problem.” But Tania Kac, a freelance graphic designer who offers eco-friendly design solutions, does just that.

“We’re generating ideas that end up in the trash,” says Kac. “I’m passionate about design, but I also see how it impacts the environment. We create billions and billions of pieces of trash every year.” ...]]></description>
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		<title>Summer of Solutions Offers Opportunities to Youth Leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/07/08/summer-of-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most students use their summer vacations to sleep in, catch up on TV, and relax. For Summer of Solutions project leaders like Jennifer Roach, summer is just another opportunity to create solutions for the problems in their communities.

Roach, along with co-leaders Claudine Constant and Pablo Baeza, is leading a project to start gardens in Hartford, Connecticut’s Frog Hollow neighborhood, one of 15 Summer of Solutions (SoS) projects across the country....]]></description>
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		<title>Alenka Figa, Summer 2011 Intern</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/07/01/alenka-figa-intern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/?p=15745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alenka Figa is an English major at Grinnell College, and currently faces the terrifying prospect of being a Senior. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her degree, although writing of some sort sounds nice.

Alenka has always been interested in environmentalism, but despite being from Iowa, she didn't set foot on a farm until college. An alternative spring break trip to an organic farm recently strengthened her belief that to better our world, we must invest in sustainability. She also developed a love for sifting dirt, and learned that cows do not have teeth on their upper jaw....]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa City Summer of the Arts Goes Green</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/07/01/iowa-city-summer-of-the-arts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get a sense of the strong community living in Iowa City, attend one of its summer festivals. This weekend, the annual Iowa City Jazz Festival will take over the downtown area and provide residents with delicious food, music, and the opportunity to learn about the environment.

Environmental education may not be what you expect to see at a festival. But, Iowa City’s summer events attract thousands of people, and that generates a lot of trash. To reduce the waste that Iowa City's festivals send to the landfill, Summer of the Arts (SotA), the organization behind Iowa City’s festivals, has begun a program called Green Initiatives (GI)....]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Virginia: We Share Responsibilty for Activists&#8217; Deaths and Rainforest Destruction</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/05/31/we-share-responsibilty-for-the-deaths-of-environmental-activists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/05/31/we-share-responsibilty-for-the-deaths-of-environmental-activists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elias Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Reader,

Today I read an article on the Huffington Post called Adelino Ramos Killed: Third Environmental Activist Murdered This Week In Brazil. In case you didn't know, as I didn't, there's conflict in Brazil. Loggers, farmers, and ranchers are illegally laying claim to the rainforest. The most terrifying aspect is that environmental activists, 1150 recorded to date, are being killed by hit men hired by the companies that profit from the destruction of the rainforest.

It's hard to think of a better reason to act on principles. I'm writing to get us started on thinking of how we can make a difference for those struggling to sustain the most vital piece of our planet's environment, our life sources, and biological diversity. The enemy is obvious, and his power is too: money. What's less obvious is how American consumers are responsible for the conflict....]]></description>
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		<title>The Healthy Home, by Dr. Myron Wentz &amp; Dave Wentz, with Donna K. Wallace</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/05/21/the-healthy-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 17:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Is it even possible to make a big enough difference in the world to redirect the current trends? Or will we be battling a new revolutionary challenge of man-made toxins, in which degenerative diseases like cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's are the norm?" asks Dave Wentz, co-author of The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers.

It's not a rhetorical question. Wentz really wants to know the answer. He has a young son and, like other conscientious parents of a newborn, he's concerned about his child's health and the world he will inherit....]]></description>
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		<title>Little Princes by Conor Grennan</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/05/09/little-princes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 03:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, Conor Grennan began an around-the-world journey with a two-month stint volunteering in Little Princes, a Nepalese orphanage near Kathmandu. He took on the work less as a humanitarian effort than as a way to justify spending the next ten months indulging his urge to travel, he says. He had no intention of making the orphanage or the children of Nepal his life's work. "Volunteering in an orphanage was a one-off," Grennan writes in Little Princes, "an experience that you would never forget and never repeat." He wasn't callous, just uninvolved.

But what he could not know then was how deeply these children would affect him, compelling him to return again and again to do all that he could to help them. What he also did not learn at first was that most of the children were not orphans, but victims of child trafficking....]]></description>
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		<title>Eating for Health &#8211; Wahls Diet Fights Multiple Sclerosis</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/04/26/eating-for-health-wahls-diet-fights-multiple-sclerosis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2000, her doctor diagnosed Terry Wahls with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that was steadily robbing her of the independence she treasured. A former Tae Kwondo instructor and marathon runner, the loss of mobility was devastating. For four years, she required a tilt-recline wheelchair to conduct the affairs of her daily life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Rowley, Contributing Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A native of Iowa, David Rowley is getting ready for his impending exit from the state. He’s not sure what awaits him next – grad school or the real world – though David is sure he will be traversing new roads....]]></description>
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		<title>The Green Side of Art &#8211; Making New Beauty from Old Objects</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rowley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever looked at a beer bottle and thought, That would make a good candle? Like many people switching to a more environmentally friendly – “green” – lifestyle, artists are finding new ways to show their creativity while recycling material that otherwise would be tossed in the garbage.

Tom Brown has found an outlet for his creativity by participating in the Iowa City Public Library’s Altered Book Sale and Exhibit.

For the past few years, people of all ages have been encouraged to participate in creating fun works of art using old books as the focal material of the work. Those who participate have the option of using their own library for material or picking up an old book from the Iowa City Public Library (ICPL).

Using recycled material such as books and copper, Brown went to work creating his piece for the exhibit: a lamp. Brown made the body from copper tubing and the shade from the pages of a medical encyclopedia.

“It was covered in skulls and kidneys and other body parts,” says Brown....]]></description>
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		<title>International Women’s Day Event to Celebrate Ugandan Hero</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/02/23/international-women%e2%80%99s-day-event-to-celebrate-ugandan-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an early celebration of International Women’s Day, Blue Planet Green Living is partnering with A GEM of An Idea to host a live and interactive, online forum featuring the subject of this post, Agnes Nyamayarwo, founder of Mulago Positive Women’s Network.

We're focusing on Agnes — both here and in the online forum — to celebrate her singular accomplishments as a woman of initiative, courage, and strength.

We invite you to join us February 26, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. EST to speak with Agnes Nyamayarwo live from Uganda via the Internet. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jason Bradley, Contributing Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jason Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jason Bradley practices naturopathic and chiropractic medicine in Iowa City, IA. After finishing his undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and English Literature, he attended Palmer University in Davenport, Iowa, where he attained his Doctor of Chiropractic, graduating summa cum laude.

Early in practice, he realized that his patients were coming to him with complex questions about metabolic and nutritional medicine and that naturopathy school was calling him. He attended Trinity College in Warsaw, Indiana, where he earned his Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, again graduating summa cum laude.

A lifelong learner, Jason recently completed a Master's Degree in Journalism at the prestigious Adler School at the University of Iowa. While continuing to see patients, he is currently completing a Doctor of Nursing Practice at Frontier School of Medicine in Hyden, Kentucky and will sit for the Board Certification exam in Anti-Aging Medicine in April of 2011.

In his practice, Jason specializes in treating complex metabolic disorders, weight loss, fatigue, thyroid and adrenal imbalances and bio-identical hormone replacement therapies....]]></description>
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		<title>Kara Bennett, Contributing Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/12/11/kara-bennett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kara Bennett is a University of Iowa senior, majoring in Journalism and Mass Communication and English.

Raised in eastern Iowa, the Mississippi river was only a few feet from her front door, inspiring a childhood rich with outdoor activity and a reverence for wildlife.]]></description>
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