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		<title>California&#8217;s Attempt to Ban Plastic Bags Statewide Fails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The law failed by a vote of 14-21 Despite the tweaks, the Virginia-based American Chemistry Council spent millions in lobbying fees, radio ads and a prime-time TV ad attacking the measure, reports the Associated Press. The group, which represents plastic bag makers including Dow Chemical Co. and ExxonMobil Corp, helped sink Seattle&#8217;s effort last year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=203</link>
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		<title>Is the air you breathe inside your house polluted too?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to our friends at NASA, our homes can have more polluted air than outside. VOCs, off-gassing plastics and carpet, cleaning supplies, dirty air handlers and other items can make it harder to breathe inside than out! But there&#8217;s an all natural way to clean the air you and your family breathe without using sprays [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=197</link>
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		<title>Public transport means a healthier, longer life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study suggests that people who live closer to public transportation live longer, healthier lives than those who do not. How does this fit in with Clean Fairfax&#8217;s mission? Well, if there are fewer cars on the road, the air is probably cleaner and there are fewer people throwing junk out their car windows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=192</link>
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		<title>How does your garden grow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this heat we&#8217;ve been having, how are you watering your garden? I&#8217;ve let my lawn go. It will come back in the fall. But I have been keeping the garden going by using a rain barrel, and my version of &#8216;grey&#8217; water&#8211;the water that my dehumidifier pulls out of the air (and we know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=187</link>
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		<title>Have you ever wondered about where chopsticks come from?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or where they go? I have to say that I haven&#8217;t. Until today when this little newstory popped up in my email from our friends at Greenopolis: An estimated 25 billion (BILLION!) &#8220;disposable&#8221; chopsticks are thrown out every year, which means that approximately 25 million trees and bamboo are harvested to make this little disposable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Stormwater Management Has A Message For You and Your Best Friends!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember, if you drop it, pick it up. That goes for what your dog drops too.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=178</link>
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		<title>What happens to Plastic Bags that roam in the wild?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at Fairfax County Stormwater Management have a message for you folks who still use plastic bags. You can make a difference by pledging to not use plastic bags, and use reusable grocery bags instead. If you HAVE to use plastic bags, make sure they don&#8217;t escape. You can recycle your plastic bags at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=173</link>
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		<title>Making New Parklands in Urban Areas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many studies suggest that more greenspace in urban areas actually helps with economic development, property values, traffic calming, crime prevention, early childhood learning, combating domestic violence and more.    That&#8217;s probably why the city of Indianapolis just set aside over 50 acres in the middle of its city as a park and nature reserve. &#8220;It&#8217;s safe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=169</link>
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		<title>The PepsiCo. Dream Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in April Pepsi Co., in partnership with Waste Management, debuted the PepsiCo. Dream Machine. So what makes this machine so…dreamy? The Dream Machine is a new, interactive, device that offers incentives for on-site recycling, by offering point rewards for each can, or bottle recycled. It works by pressing a touch screen to begin recycling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=160</link>
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		<title>AccuStrata, Inc. Awarded EPA Grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[College Park, Maryland small business AccuStrata, Inc. has received a  $70,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the EPA to continue their work on improving the efficiency of solar panels during the manufacturing process. AccuStrata has been working on an optical system that analyzes the thin-film solar paneling while they are being manufactured, which enables [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleanfairfax.org/blog/?p=152</link>
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