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	<title>Transition Island Blog</title>
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	<description>We Need To Plan For Oil Price Rises and Climate Change … ASAP !!!</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>GOOD NEWS IS EMERGING.</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/07/21/good-news-is-emerging/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/07/21/good-news-is-emerging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is so much bad news that it is all too easy to become a gloom-merchant.
But some dedicated searching can lead to progress and a real potential to change the environment. Here&#8217;s a few possibilities&#8230;
Solar cooling system
A Spanish research team has produced an air-conditioning system that uses green energy sources.
Powered by using solar and residual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energetic moves?</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/23/energetic-moves/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/23/energetic-moves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Good and bad news came in around the UK energy situation. 
Problems in the area are not going to go away. Here we have a selection: political, economic, local opinion and habitat impact.
uncompetitive supplies
Allan Asher, the chief executive of Energywatch, has told MPs that power companies have it too easy. There is next to no market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New water recycling scheme</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/22/new-water-recycling-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/22/new-water-recycling-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Island]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[About one million litres of water will soon be saved by Southern Water on the Island every day.
The County Press says this is enough to fill 10,000 baths.
A £7 million investment in new state-of-the-art recycling equipment, which takes water out of sludge, will improve supplies in the south of the Island.
The project at the Sandown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island walk breaks records</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/21/island-walk-breaks-records/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/21/island-walk-breaks-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eco-News]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transitioniow.org/?p=474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around 10,000 people took part in the recent Walk the Wight in aid of Newport&#8217;s Earl Mountbatten Hospice.
The full walk across the Island is 26.5 miles between Bembridge and Alum Bay. There is a newly-introduced eight-mile Flat Walk along the cycle path from Sandown to Newport, approximately half the distance. (Photo from County Press)
Walk the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty secrets in recycling</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/20/dirty-secrets-in-recycling/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/20/dirty-secrets-in-recycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eco-News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eco-scandal]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Camden residents&#8217; conscientiously sorted doorstep recycling boxes are simply rebundled and sent abroad.
Every item of paper placed in Camden&#8217;s recycling bins is sent to Malaysia, Indonesia, India or China. All of the borough&#8217;s waste plastic goes to China.
This is according to figures released to the New Journal this week under Freedom of Information rules. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biodiesel clog dance continues</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/18/biodiesel-clog-dance-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/18/biodiesel-clog-dance-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 08:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eco-News]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transitioniow.org/?p=466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Biofuels have had many warnings.
One of the original problems with biodiesel was clogging up filters. This was because it cleans the residue left behind by the mineral diesel out of the fuel lines, which then collects in the filter. Which is why all fuel lines have filters - to stop unwanted solids going into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No free home energy monitors</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/17/no-free-home-energy-monitors/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/17/no-free-home-energy-monitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 08:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eco-News]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transitioniow.org/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
As predicted, the Government U-turn on Real Time Displays.
Jonathon Porritt, Chair of the Sustainable Development Commision, gives his views on the recent decision by BERR (Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) not to give the go-ahead to a plan which would have seen power companies providing every home with a free device able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s wildlife already suffering</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/16/worlds-wildlife-already-suffering/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/16/worlds-wildlife-already-suffering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eco-News]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent.
According to an unprecedented study published in the high-credibility journal Nature, climate change is already affecting the world&#8217;s ecosystems to a large extent.
This comes from a team of experts, including members of the UN&#8217;s intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) from America, Europe, Australia and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change opportunities</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/15/climate-change-opportunities/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/15/climate-change-opportunities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eco-News]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transitioniow.org/?p=460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SWOT Analysis - usually a business tool - is showing the economy could turn on new jobs created in the renewable energy and efficiency sectors.
Scotland is on the brink of a green jobs revolution with 50,000 posts expected to be created in the next decade, careers experts claim.
Wind analysts, turbine technicians and heat-pump installers will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil wars starting?</title>
		<link>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/14/oil-wars-starting/</link>
		<comments>http://transitioniow.org/2008/05/14/oil-wars-starting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eco-News]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transitioniow.org/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia has threatened to halt oil exports to Taiwan over Taipei&#8217;s reluctance to invest in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s power and water desalination plant, a report said Monday.
Saudi Arabia feels cheated by Taiwan&#8217;s delay to invest in the Independent Water &#38; Power Provider project and has threatened to suspend oil exports to Taiwan, the United Daily [...]]]></description>
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