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	<description>For a Big World you need a Big Picture</description>
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		<title>Electrolux designs for the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Electrolux Design Lab has some really interesting ideas for different technology for use in the home.&#160; These include a sheep vacuum cleaner (in the shape of, not for cleaning sheep),
 
 inflower clothes cleaner 
 
and the Bio Robot refrigerator.

 
For more of the designs look here: http://www.electroluxdesignlab.com/2010/06/electrolux-design-lab-2010-semi-finalists/
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		<title>Petition to rename the stretch of road, HIGHWAY OF HEROES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting petition on the 10 Downing Street site to rename the stretch of road (B3102) between RAF Lyneham and Wootton Basset, HIGHWAY OF HEROES.
For anyone in the UK you can sign the petition by going here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/HOMAGE/
For anyone who doesn’t know the significance of this stretch of road, it is used by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And you thought that petrol was expensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an article by Paul MacKenzie-Cummins of transitiontowns.org he makes an interesting point about the cost of fuel.
..so next time you fill up the car and bemoan the fact that the price of petrol has risen, again, think about how much the same amount of fuel is going to cost you in the next five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Cleaning Products</title>
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A report released in conjunction with the Ideal Home Show range suggests Britain is a nation of eco-cynics, with 75% of us using regular, chemical detergents. 
With spring just around the corner, it&#8217;s time to freshen up your house (and your health) and lose the headrush from overusing the bleach. Clear away your heaving winter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Turbine catches a little too much wind</title>
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Due&#160; to some sort of failure of the brakes or the blade angulation system, this particular wind turbine caught a bit too much air.&#160; The turbine was in Hornslet, Denmark.
Normally in high winds the brake system cuts in and slows the turbine down, or the shuts it down completely and turns the blades to reduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigpictureblog.com/wind-turbine-catches-a-little-too-much-wind.html</link>
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		<title>Rubbish in the sea &#8211; worse than thought</title>
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The Guardian reports that:

&#160;When the crew of the Greenpeace ship Esperanza last year pulled in its 1-metre-net from the surface of the Atlantic about 200 miles south-east of the Azores, it was surprised only by the quantity of what it found. 

Washing around in the net were nearly 700 minuscule and unidentifiable fragments of plastic; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigpictureblog.com/rubbish-in-the-sea-worse-than-thought.html</link>
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		<title>Return to &quot;Sailing&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A German company Sky Sails is helping shipping companies power their ships with the aid of a huge kite.&#160; The large towing kite resembles a paraglider and is shaped like an aircraft wing, to enable it to take advantage of different wind directions.&#160; It operates at 100-300m above surface level &#8211; much higher than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The little green book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley (of whom I am an alumni) have put together &#8220;the little green book&#8221; &#8211; 50 tips on how to make your life greener and help tackle climate change.&#160; The guide shows how simple things can be done to enable us to take action and make a difference.
The guide starts with ways of measuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We won&#8217;t be doing much business on a dead planet</title>
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There is a really interesting piece by Christophe Poizat&#160;the founder of the International Network of Social Entrepreneurs, who, using the social web and guerrilla marketing tactics, has single-handedly created the word’s largest Web 2.0 network of social entrepreneurs.
We Won’t Be Doing Much Business On A Dead Planet
It is a sad but true fact: we won’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigpictureblog.com/we-wont-be-doing-much-business-on-a-dead-planet.html</link>
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		<title>Google Earth Shows Global Warming results</title>
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&#160;
Mark O&#8217;Neill reporst on Google Tutor on this interesting view of Global Warming 

As Al Gore would probably confirm, there seems to be a lot of people in denial about global warming. So I was interested to read about a Google Earth animation which shows the rate of the Arctic ice melting.

The National Snow and [...]]]></description>
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