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		<title>Green Ethanol and Green Hyrdogen</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/10/13/green-ethanol-and-green-hyrdogen/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to make ethanol: 1: Use diesel and gasoline powered farm equipment to grow and harvest a sugar-rich crop. 2: Use fossil fuel supplied heat and electricity to operate a cooker, which turns the plants you grew into cattle feed and ethanol. How to make hydrogen: 1: Obtain methane from fracking or some other fossil &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/10/13/green-ethanol-and-green-hyrdogen/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Green Ethanol and Green Hyrdogen</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Minnesota Environmental Issues, Politics, Geology and All</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/11/19/minnesota-environmental-issues-politics-geology-and-all/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 01:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first two in a series of Ikonokast podcasts: Episode 30 – Protecting the Watershed with Megan Bond Megan Bond has a BS in Public Administration with a Minor in Health Care Adminstration, a J.D. and an M.A. in Public Policy and Leadership from the University of St. Thomas. She began working in water conservation &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/11/19/minnesota-environmental-issues-politics-geology-and-all/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Minnesota Environmental Issues, Politics, Geology and All</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Turns out you can buy less misery</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/08/21/turns-out-you-can-buy-less-misery/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 01:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2022 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last year and a half, the Democratic White House and Congress carried out an amazingly successful experiment in small scale personal guaranteed income, with the expanded Child Tax Credit and similar programs. Democratic Governor Walz in Minnesota has been trying to do something similar. Minnesota Extremist Republicans have not only fought tooth and &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/08/21/turns-out-you-can-buy-less-misery/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Turns out you can buy less misery</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Moving The Dial Towards A Survivable Future</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/07/08/moving-the-dial-towards-a-survivable-future/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Electric Cars are catching on. Survey says, 14% would by an eV right now if they are going to buy any car at all. See: Americans are coming around on electric cars. An additional 22% say they would seriously consider an eV. That adds up to a lot. Deadline August 19th!!!!: President Biden&#8217;s Bipartisan Infrastructure &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/07/08/moving-the-dial-towards-a-survivable-future/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Moving The Dial Towards A Survivable Future</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heat Kills.  More Heat Kills More</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/22/heat-kills-more-heat-kills-more/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years, the Atlantic Ocean and other parts of the world smashed their weathery fists into the faces of climate change deniers again and again until the denial of climate change fell to the mat, bleeding, and forever silent. I wish. It wasn&#8217;t quite that extreme, but nearly so. In certain social &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/22/heat-kills-more-heat-kills-more/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Heat Kills.  More Heat Kills More</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>This is the decade when electric cars replace gas cars</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/05/10/this-is-the-decade-when-electric-cars-replace-gas-cars/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 14:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Electric cars will be cheaper to produce than internal combustion engine cars by 2027, according to a study commissioned by Transport &#38; Environment in Brussels. Electric car sales have been booming in Europe. Meanwhile, in North America, Uper and Lyft are acting like electric cars are a futuristic idea that may or may not work &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/05/10/this-is-the-decade-when-electric-cars-replace-gas-cars/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">This is the decade when electric cars replace gas cars</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Complex Problem of Microplastic Particle Pollution</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/02/19/the-complex-problem-of-microplastic-particle-pollution/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[microplastic particles]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The importance of microplastic particles in the ecosystem, both as they might effect ecological systems and human health, is the subject of great deal of new research, and is one of more rapidly developing areas of of knowledge related to environmental concern. Once thought of as mainly a problem in the oceans (related to the &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/02/19/the-complex-problem-of-microplastic-particle-pollution/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Complex Problem of Microplastic Particle Pollution</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to save the world one gas station at a time.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/28/how-to-save-the-world-one-gas-station-at-a-time/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Look at a map of your city or suburb. Search for the gas stations, you know, those places where you can buy cigarettes and petroleum products? Now imagine going to each and every one of those locations and tearing it down. We don&#8217;t need them any more anyway, because we&#8217;ve electrified transportation and nobody smokes. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/10/28/how-to-save-the-world-one-gas-station-at-a-time/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How to save the world one gas station at a time.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>No, Michael Moore did not make a documentary called &#8220;Planet of the Humans&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/04/27/no-michael-moore-did-not-make-a-documentary-called-planet-of-the-humans/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Siegel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planet of the Humans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Moore]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[That was some other guy. The recently released documentary &#8220;Planet of the Humas&#8221; was written by Jeff Gibbs and Directed by Jeff Gibbs. See? No mention of Michael Moore there. This is a Jeff Gibbs documentary. Michael Moore does have a lot to do with this production, though. He is the executive producer, and he &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/04/27/no-michael-moore-did-not-make-a-documentary-called-planet-of-the-humans/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">No, Michael Moore did not make a documentary called &#8220;Planet of the Humans&#8221;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Resolutions&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/22/our-resolutions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 02:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2020 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the committee that creates proposed resolutions for grassroots activists to bring to their Minnesota DFL caucuses (DFL is code for &#8220;Democratic Party&#8221; here). Here are the resolutions we just finished, in case you are interested. Maybe some of them will apply to your particular politico-activist context!]]></description>
		
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