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	<title>The Alternative Consumer &#187; Humor</title>
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		<title>6 misguided DIY projects</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/11/05/6-misguided-diy-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
We&#8217;re having a little DIY fun here&#8230;

You got the ingredients mix wrong on that DIY shampoo and now sport a hairstyle that&#8217;s been kindly described as early &#8220;Telly Savalas&#8221;.
The t-shirt quilt you&#8217;re creating chronicles your pathetic journey from Black Sabbath worshiper to Bon Jovi fanatic (it also contains 17 threadbare Bruce Springsteen tees).
The DIY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>top 10 frighteningly green halloween movies</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/10/28/top-10-frighteningly-green-halloween-movies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/10/28/top-10-frighteningly-green-halloween-movies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rd</dc:creator>
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Given our focus &#8216;all things green&#8217; we thought we&#8217;d throw together a fun list of ghoulishly green scary movies.  Here&#8217;s our top ten.  Don&#8217;t hesitate to add your own:
10.   Let&#8217;s get it out the way right off the top.  The thought of having to sit through Al Gore&#8217;s &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221; is a terrifying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Reasons NOT to Go Green</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/10/12/10-reasons-not-to-go-green-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/10/12/10-reasons-not-to-go-green-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re just trying to have some fun here&#8230;


You&#8217;ve been working for ten long years to complete a 30&#8242; tall sculpture of Queen Elizabeth out of 20,000 recycled Ballantine Ale cans and your kidneys are about shot.
Putting your Hummer in neutral going down hills has saved you only .008 gallons of black gold per mile.
You tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 signs you&#8217;re an energy hog</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/10/08/9-signs-youre-an-energy-hog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/10/08/9-signs-youre-an-energy-hog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eco humor]]></category>

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a plasma screen in every room is this year&#8217;s home improvement goal
you think &#8220;Energy Star&#8221; is an award for burning more electricity
your electric bill is delivered by hand-truck
your home draws so much power it has a nice, warm glow on Google Maps
when you get home and turn on the lights theres a &#8216;hit&#8217; on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 signs you may be a victim of climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/09/28/6-signs-youre-a-victim-of-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/09/28/6-signs-youre-a-victim-of-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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We&#8217;re not doing a serious scientific analysis here, just having some fun.

The 4 seasons in your area consist of:  very warm, hot, very hot and &#8216;I&#8217;ve gotta get the hell out of here!&#8217;
That SPF 50 isn&#8217;t working anymore &#8211; if you connect all the sunspots on your face they&#8217;d resemble a detailed street map of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 signs you&#8217;ve really gone green</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/08/13/9-signs-youve-really-gone-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/08/13/9-signs-youve-really-gone-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Tips]]></category>
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You dumped your last two girlfriends because they couldn&#8217;t spell &#8217;sustainability&#8217;.
You actually enjoy eating quinoa.
The only &#8216;hemp&#8217; in your underwear draw&#8230;is, well&#8230;.underwear.
You spend so much time shopping at your local Whole Foods that your mother thinks you work there.
You check the recycled number on yogurt containers before you look at the flavor.
You traded in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 ways June Cleaver was retro green</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/07/27/5-ways-june-cleaver-was-retro-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/07/27/5-ways-june-cleaver-was-retro-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr. happy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all you youngsters out there, June Cleaver was Beaver Cleaver&#8217;s mom on &#8216;Leave it to Beaver.&#8217;  The quintessential American mom, June kept the Cleaver ship floating safely over life&#8217;s frothy seas without any major catastrophes. Here are just a few of the ways June kept it retro-green.  Any fans of June should feel free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 signs Jesus was a treehugger</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/07/17/10-signs-jesus-was-a-treehugger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/07/17/10-signs-jesus-was-a-treehugger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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 The man was a freeballing sandal wearer.
He walked everywhere &#8211; or rode a low emissions donkey.
He shopped only at local bazaars and farm stands.
Consumed only organic food &#8211; nothing containing man-made fertilizers or pesticides.
Slept on an all-natural eco-mattress &#8211; hay.
The man could stretch his food dollar. Once turned 5 loaves of bread and 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Green Your 4th of July (sort of)</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/07/03/5-ways-to-green-your-4th-of-july-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/07/03/5-ways-to-green-your-4th-of-july-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rd</dc:creator>
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Use a solar cooker to roast all your barbecued goodies.  Check the weather forecast and start cooking on July 3rd.
Invite Al Gore over for a barbecue &#8211; make sure you have plenty of potato salad and corn relish.  Al&#8217;s such a big eater you may want to invest in carbon offsets to counter-balance his food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>is twitter destroying our social fabric?</title>
		<link>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/06/03/is-twitter-destroying-our-social-fabric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2009/06/03/is-twitter-destroying-our-social-fabric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mr. happy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Space, Facebook and the current crown prince of social media, Twitter, are sucking up bandwidth left and right.  Between blogging, texting, tweeting and emailing I&#8217;ve developed a serious vitamin D deficiency.  Is Twitter bringing us all together?

Is the 140 character tweet a cultural step forward, the next mile marker in the transmutation of our [...]]]></description>
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