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        <title><![CDATA[Black carbon casts doubt on space tourism]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Will black carbon cause the death of space tourism before it has taken off?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-16T17:49:45Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Consumer confidence slipping in solar, wind]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The bloom is sliding off the rose of renewables. Electric and hybrid vehicles losing favor too. What about nuclear?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-16T11:51:03Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[What if we could eat wood?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Would we then be able to feed the whole world? Maybe. Scientists have found a way to turn indigestible cellulose into starch.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-19T00:23:56Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Less luggage lost saved airlines billions last year]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[$2.1 billion -- the figure that care, attention and innovation saved airlines last year.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-09T16:46:04Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Gretchen Daily, ecologist, on quantifying nature's value]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As people push against the limits of what nature freely offers us in terms of fresh water, climate stability and more, how can we use our resources to achieve the greatest return for society?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Shin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-01T10:00:05Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Caffeine-addicted bacteria to eat up pollutants]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do you decaffeinate water that's polluted by our widespread use of caffeine? Engineer some bacteria who literally live off caffeine. They'll eat it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-28T17:51:10Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Biofuel blues: Mascoma ends IPO plans]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Just when it looked like the biofuels industry was starting to make some progress, one of its own has withdrawn its IPO due to difficult market conditions.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-25T22:24:31Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Designer invents packaging that 'disappears']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Disappearing Package&quot; shows how with a simple re-design, much of a product's leftover rubbish can be eliminated completely.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tuan C. Nguyen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-25T11:23:42Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Oil majors are whistling past the graveyard]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/take/oil-majors-are-whistling-past-the-graveyard/584]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[The latest outlooks from BP and ExxonMobil project a rosy future for oil, while bottom-up forecasts see world oil production declining before 2020. Who you gonna believe?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Nelder]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-20T08:43:54Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[A small step for plant waste-based fuels]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[KiOR, the advanced biofuels company that makes fuel from pine wood chips, has made its first commercial shipment of cellulosic diesel.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirsten Korosec]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-20T00:04:25Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Can snail teeth improve battery tech, solar cells?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can biominerals sourced from snails improve lithium-ion batteries and solar cell concentration?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-17T07:00:59Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[17-year-old girl exploring algae as biofuel wins Intel science competition]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The nation's most prestigious science competition for high school students awarded $1.25 million in 2013.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Shin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-14T03:25:54Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[And the DOE energy innovation award goes to ... a new type of nuclear power]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Transatomic's founders look more Twitterati than Nuclearati. But their &quot;molten salt reactor&quot; trumps great ideas from across all energy areas at this week's investor/entrepreneur summit.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-01T13:31:00Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The next big thing: 4D printing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An MIT professor recently unveiled an advanced 3D printing process that allows objects to assemble themselves.]]></description>
        <guid><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/the-next-big-thing-4d-printing/13898]]></guid>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tuan C. Nguyen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-01T11:47:42Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Study: When private companies go public, innovation suffers]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/study-when-private-companies-go-public-innovation-suffers/12795]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[While an IPO puts firms in a better position to innovate, other priorities take hold.]]></description>
        <guid><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/study-when-private-companies-go-public-innovation-suffers/12795]]></guid>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tuan C. Nguyen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-02-14T12:23:52Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The home of biofuel firms? California]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[According to a new study, California is the preferred home for companies focusing on biofuel production.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-02-07T13:15:28Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The Morning Briefing: A question of biofuels]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Morning Briefing&quot; is SmaertPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about biofuel research and opinion.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-02-07T08:58:20Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Filabot helps turn a plastic bottle into a 3D printed prototype]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An unassuming invention may be a gamechanger for designers and manufacturers.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tuan C. Nguyen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-02-05T12:05:20Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Wanted: Half a million electric car charge points for Europe]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/wanted-half-a-million-electric-car-charge-points-for-europe/11720]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you build the infrastructure they will come. That's what E.U. lawmakers hope as they try to spark up slow sales of EVs.]]></description>
        <guid><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/wanted-half-a-million-electric-car-charge-points-for-europe/11720]]></guid>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-01-31T12:09:20Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[For business, food waste a ripe opportunity for savings]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/big-story/for-business-food-waste-a-ripe-opportunity-for-savings/224]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Minimizing waste along the food chain: it's good for the environment, but even better for the bottom line. The &quot;mega-movement&quot; is just beginning.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Gray]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-01-15T09:33:35Z</pubDate>
                                
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