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The company also reaffirmed its commitment to reducing its energy use by 20 percent per square foot in the next five years. If you&apos;ve never been to one of their stores, they are massive shells filled with a variety of home improvement products. I can&apos;t even begin to imagine how much energy these stores use so I applaud The Home Depot for working to improve energy efficiency across the board.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-09T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4738">      <title>Smokestash Industry: ARPA-E Seeks Breakthroughs in Carbon Capture Technology</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4738</link>      <description><![CDATA[Every second, our bodies capture carbon dioxide in our tissues, transport it via the blood, and dump it in the lungs from where it is exhaled. This unconscious process is yet another way humans contribute to the accumulation of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere--albeit in a miniscule volume compared with burning fossil fuels. The key to this metabolic process is an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase and it&apos;s efficiency at capturing and releasing CO2 is what human engineers want to mimic at the power plant scale.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-09T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4735">      <title>100% Bio-Plastic Water Bottles Trickle Into Marketplace</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4735</link>      <description><![CDATA[A new trend emerging in the bottled water market is bio-plastic bottles made 100 percent from plants, as opposed to the mixed composition bottles that came out in recent years. The latest eco-bottles come from Green Planet Bottling and Keystone Water Company.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4734">      <title>BP, Shell Lead Oil/Gas Sustainability Ranking</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4734</link>      <description><![CDATA[In a ranking of environmental, sustainability and social impacts from major oil and gas companies, BP comes out on top, with a 59 percent Tomorrow&apos;s Value score, according to the Tomorrow&apos;s Value ranking.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4736">      <title>Energy efficient scoreboard takes the field</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4736</link>      <description><![CDATA[Safeco Field&apos;s 10-year-old scoreboard in left field was comprised of incandescent bulbs, required a cooling system that was in operation 24-hours a day, and used 1.2 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity annually. In February, Safeco Field began deconstructingit to replace it with a more energy efficient scoreboard.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4732">      <title>Learning from Nature: Scientists Break Down Carbon Dioxide Into Carbon Monoxide Using Visible Light</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4732</link>      <description><![CDATA[A recent discovery in understanding how to chemically break down the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful form opens the doors for scientists to wonder what organism is out there -- or could be created -- to accomplish the task.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4733">      <title>LED Streetlights Best Buy for Cities, Researchers Report</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4733</link>      <description><![CDATA[University of Pittsburgh researchers have conducted the first cradle-to-grave assessment of light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights and determined that the increasingly popular lamps strike the best balance between brightness, affordability, and energy and environmental conservation when their life span-from production to disposal-is considered. LEDs consist of clusters of tiny, high-intensity bulbs and are extolled for their power efficiency and clear luminosity.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4731">      <title>&apos;Awful&apos; legal threat turns small boatyard upside down</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4731</link>      <description><![CDATA[Sitting in her office in an old converted house on a recent afternoon, Patti Segulja-Lau looks tired.

She&apos;s slept little over the past month and has lost 10 pounds. The general manager of Dunato&apos;s Marine Service in Seattle, Segulja-Lau describes the events of the past few weeks in a single word: surreal.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-05T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4729">      <title>Bright Automotive Pilots with Postal Service, Pushes Back Production Plan</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4729</link>      <description><![CDATA[Bright Automotive, a spinoff from the not-for-profit think tank and consulting firm Rocky Mountain Institute that&apos;s looking to build a plug-in hybrid car called the IDEA, has linked up with the U.S. Postal Service. The deal is for Bright to retrofit a standard postal service fleet vehicle with its electric drive train and test the vehicle in Washington DC for a year. Yeah, it&apos;s a tiny step, and Bright has other small deals like its partnership with the U.S. Army to test plug-in hybrid vehicle tech in non-combat situations.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-05T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4730">      <title>Interior Department chooses Alaska for climate center</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4730</link>      <description><![CDATA[Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Thursday that Alaska will be the site of the first of the department&apos;s eight planned regional climate science centers.

&quot;With rapidly melting Arctic sea ice and permafrost, and threats to the survival of Native Alaskan coastal communities, Alaska is ground zero for climate change,&quot; Salazar said in a release.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-05T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4726">      <title>3M Shares Tips for Managing Energy Use</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4726</link>      <description><![CDATA[3M reveals its strategies for managing energy usage in the U.S. Department of Energy&apos;s &quot;Energy Matters&quot; newsletter. The centerpiece of 3M&apos;s plan includes establishing a new set of corporate environmental goals every five years and tracking individual plants on a quarterly basis and again annually to evaluate their progress toward meeting energy-reduction goals.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-04T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4727">      <title>How Ocean Bacterium Turns Carbon Into Fuel</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4727</link>      <description><![CDATA[Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. We hear this mantra time and again. When it comes to carbon9the &quot;Most Wanted&quot; element in terms of climate change9nature has got reuse and recycle covered. However, it&apos;s up to us to reduce. Scientists at Harvard Medical School are trying to meet this challenge by learning more about the carbon cycle, that is, the process by which carbon moves from the atmosphere into plants, oceans, soils, the earth&apos;s crust, and back into the atmosphere again.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-04T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4704">      <title>Lunch &amp; Lead: Sustainable Business Solutions Series, &quot;Creating Value Through Sustainable Product/Service Design&quot; 
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