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	<title><![CDATA[America, the Saudi Arabia of natural gas]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[The United States produced 600 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2009, likely surpassing Russia as the world's largest producer. Our economy...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t be a drip: Technology for conserving water gets some props]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Web-based application gets top honors for improving grape vineyard yields with a minimum of waste.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Heather Clancy</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Find out how your corporate sustainability programs map into your compliance responsibilities]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Figure out what's next in sustainability compliance with this auditor's guidebook.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Heather Clancy</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Kids can sure give us an education about energy behavior]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A New York school turned a push to cut energy consumption into a hands-on learning project.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Heather Clancy</dc:creator>
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	<title><![CDATA[Let there be less light: Start-up applies smart grid concepts to saving energy in warehouses]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, being in the dark is a good thing.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Heather Clancy</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:54:21 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[How to cool the simmering caldron of anti-IT sentiment]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[One commentator explains why 'decades if business-IT acrimony' came to a head during the recent economic slowdown.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Joe McKendrick</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:51:59 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Forget venture capital; business schools need to teach more bootstrapping]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Tech entrepreneur and author Sramana Mitra says schools need to be more realistic about where most startup funds come from.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Joe McKendrick</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:33:54 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[It runs in tubes: the first high-speed rail, circa 1870]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[More than 140 years ago, promises of passengers quietly whisked between stations on pressurized air.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Joe McKendrick</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:22:24 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Grow your packaging, and why sustainability is behind Steelcase&#8217;s big IT overhaul]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Integrating disparate enterprise applications will be core to a central understanding of progress.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Heather Clancy</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:01:58 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[How to get smarter about your IT investments: Think fusion, not alignment]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[With thanks to IT services firm Atrion Networking, here's a fresh way to consider your technology strategy.]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Heather Clancy</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:18:34 PST</pubDate>
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