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PPRC&apos;s mission is to promote the implementation of pollution prevention to both business and state and local agencies in the Northwest. ]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3307">      <title>Seattle City Council to Hold Hearing on Proposed Styrofoam Ban and 20-cent Fee for Paper or Plastic Bags</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3307</link>      <description><![CDATA[To reduce waste in Seattle, the City Council will hold a public hearing today to discuss a 20-cent fee on paper and plastic bags and a foam-container ban at restaurants.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3300">      <title>Biofuels Blamed for Food Price Crisis - Report</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3300</link>      <description><![CDATA[Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 percent -- far more than previously estimated -- according to a confidential World Bank report published in a British newspaper on Friday.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-07T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3299">      <title>Cars, Toilets Go Green at Eco-Friendly Summit</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3299</link>      <description><![CDATA[Toilets that take on a life of their own, eco-cars coming sooner than you might think and security on Segways have cast this year&apos;s G8 summit in a decidedly green hue.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-07T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3294">      <title>Conserve and You Can Save, PUD Says</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3294</link>      <description><![CDATA[One day Washingtonians could see clean energy harnessed from the state&apos;s tides and volcanoes, supplementing already abundant hydroelectricity. In the meantime, Snohomish County PUD and other electricity providers are expanding efforts to conserve existing power resources.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-07T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3295">      <title>Energy Efficiency Can Pay for Itself</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3295</link>      <description><![CDATA[Alaskans who improve their homes eligible for share of $300 million.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-07T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3291">      <title>How China&apos;s Thirst For Oil Can Save The Planet</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3291</link>      <description><![CDATA[The pioneers of green energy report a &apos;gold rush&apos; mentality as soaring oil prices speed up the search for alternatives.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-06T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3302">      <title>Hospitals Struggle To Get Green-Friendly</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3302</link>      <description><![CDATA[With an unprecedented boom in California hospital construction, it makes sense that many health care organizations are trying to build greener, more environmentally conscious medical centers. But many of the energy-saving techniques used in standard commercial buildings could violate the &quot;do no harm&quot; credo of health care. ]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-05T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3292">      <title>Manure Magic</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3292</link>      <description><![CDATA[Dealing with large amounts of manure on industrial livestock farms has never been easy, environmentally sustainable, or profitable, but that&apos;s starting to change.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-04T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3298">      <title>US Lifts Freeze on Solar Applications in West</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3298</link>      <description><![CDATA[The US Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday said it reversed an earlier decision freezing solar project applications in six Western states and would accept new applications.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-04T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3293">      <title>Climate Risk From Flat-Screen TVs</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3293</link>      <description><![CDATA[The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater impact on global warming than the world&apos;s largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-03T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3288">      <title>Maker&apos;s Mark Fuels Operations with Bourbon Waste</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3288</link>      <description><![CDATA[Marker&apos;s Mark has turned on a new treatment system at its Loretto, Ky., distillery, turning waste into energy for the facility. The anaerobic digestion facility installed by waste management provider Ecovation will process stillage - the water, grain and yeast waste leftover from making bourbon - and produce a methane and carbon dioxide biogas for use in the distillery&apos;s boilers.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-03T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3287">      <title>UN Reports Big Jump in `Green Energy&apos; Investment</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3287</link>      <description><![CDATA[Global investors plowed $148 billion into new wind, solar and other alternative energy assets last year, in what the United Nations describes as a &quot;green energy gold rush&quot; gaining speed the last several years.]]></description>     <dc:date>2008-07-03T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3285">      <title>Engineering Design and Innovation</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=3285</link>      <description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation requests proposals for Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) Grants.  EDI funds advances in basic design theory, tools and software to implement design theory, and new design methods that span multiple domains, such as design for the environment and for manufacturability.  Responses due 10/1/08. For more info, contact Judy Vance at jmvance@nsf.gov or visit the website. Refer to Sol# PD-08-1464.(Grants.gov 6/16/08)
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