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        <title><![CDATA[Todd Woody - Freelance Reporter]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Install a Greywater System to Lower Utility Bills and Save Water]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Greywater is household water collected from sinks, washing machines, and showers that can be reused for landscape irrigation. Here’s what to consider before converting your plumbing.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Build Super Energy-Efficient Houses]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Passive homes adhere to a set of design principles that can slash energy consumption by 75%]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate-Proofing Your Home: Upgrades to Weather a Drought]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Maximizing efficiency and minimizing waste are essential to improving your home’s resilience. Here are ways that help decrease your water consumption.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meet the New Climate Refugee in Town: Coyotes]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[As droughts and fires worsen, wild animals are migrating into cities. In Berkeley, California, some residents have had enough.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[One of California’s Wealthiest Counties Could Run Out of Water Next Summer]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[To increase supply during the severe drought, Marin County is considering buying water from agricultural areas and piping it across the San Francisco Bay.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A cracked lake bed at Nicasio Reservoir during a drought in Nicasio, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Residents failed to significantly cut back their water consumption in July, California state officials announced, foreshadowing some difficult decisions for Governor Newsom’s administration as an historic drought lingers into the fall.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Mining Startup’s Rush for Underwater Metals Comes With Deep Risks]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[DeepGreen built a nearly $3 billion valuation on the dream of gently excavating the ocean floor. Now environmentalists want to block its plans to go public.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 03:33:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>In an extraordinary display of DeepGreen’s influence, the Pacific island nation Nauru broke UN protocol in February 2019 by ceding its seat to the company’s chief executive, Gerard Barron, at a meeting of the International Seabed Authority Council.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists Are Breeding Sea Stars in a Lab to Rehabilitate Warming Oceans]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Climate change helped to kill most of the world’s sunflower sea stars. Resurrecting them could revive carbon dioxide-sequestering kelp forests.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2021 10:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Researchers at University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories are working to repopulate the ocean with captive-bred sunflower sea stars after a disease magnified by a warming ocean killed nearly 91% of the global population that stretched from Mexico to Alaska.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Run a Virtual Power Plant From Your Luxury Apartment]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Some new complexes include high-tech energy amenities, including lithium batteries the size of a fridge that can store solar electricity and supply it to the grid when needed.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Your Water Heater Can Be a Secret Weapon in the Climate Change Fight]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[California wants to replace millions of gas water heaters with high-tech electric ones to serve as “thermal batteries” for storing solar and wind energy.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate-Proofing Your Home: Improving Your Backup Power Supply]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Blizzards, hurricanes, and wildfire risks can all be reasons you might lose power. Here are some alternatives to buying a highly polluting generator.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/swapping-your-backup-generator-for-a-cleaner-energy-option</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:00:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate-Proofing Your Home: How to Electrify]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Replacing your gas furnace, water heater, stove, and clothes dryer promises to lock in long-term environmental and economic benefits—but beware of surprise costs.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Replace a Fossil Fuel Furnace to Lower Emissions—and Your Bills]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[What you need to know about buying a heat pump.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-24/how-a-heat-pump-can-help-lower-your-home-s-emissions-and-utility-bills</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate-Proofing Your Home: Upgrades to Protect Against Wildfires]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Pruning vegetation, installing a fire-safe roof and replacing window frames can help to protect your house from a blaze.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/how-to-make-your-home-more-fire-resistant</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:00:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Using Drones to Rescue Wildlife From Climate Disasters]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Douglas Thron travels to fire-ravaged forests and towns struck by hurricanes to save animals among the rubble.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 04:01:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Policy and Investment Failures Doomed the Biofuel Revolution]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[To reignite the industry, biofuels need the type of government incentives that allowed solar and wind companies to flourish, analysts say.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:00:37 GMT</pubDate>
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