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		<title>How Could Better Public Transit Help Los Angeles?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can get an idea from this Streetsblog Capitol Hill post, which shows what Metro has done for DC. Among other things, please note that transit = economic growth. Photo by thisisbossi via Flickr.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=411&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Drivers Should Want More Cyclists, Not Fewer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look how much more room there is for your car when people bike or ride the bus! Lavish! Image is poster in city of Muenster Planning Office, August 2001. Credit: PressOffice City of Muenster, Germany<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=402&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commuter Express Congestion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that LADOT realizes that they don&#8217;t just need new buses. They need more buses. And, by extension, more drivers. Yesterday there were 16 people standing the entire way from the Encino Park and Ride (and most of those got on a few stops before that point) to the first stop in Westwood. That&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=396&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Years of Public Transit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past five years, I&#8217;ve commuted primarily by public transit. I had a brief flirtation with multimodalism (I used to bike to the bus stop on the home end of my commute), but that ended when the need to take our daughter to day care began. When we lived in our apartment, I took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=386&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuts About Southwest, the blog for Southwest Airlines, has a new post about ways to go green. I&#8217;m not sure why this post is appearing now (it refers to Earth Day, which was in April, and the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, which was last year), but the suggestions are still good&#8211;even if #5 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=381&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Cheers for Method Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I haven&#8217;t had the best luck with Method&#8217;s omops in the past, I do have to credit their customer service. As promised, my replacement mop has arrived. They even sent me a couple of the washable, reusable pads, which is a nice, unexpected touch. Here&#8217;s to clean floors!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=373&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, No, omop!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long been a fan of Method cleaning products. Some work better than others, but one standout is the omop. Washable, reusable pads attach to the mop head, so that you&#8217;re not throwing out paper pads every time you clean the floor. But you&#8217;re also not dealing with a disgusting mop head that&#8217;s hard to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=369&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heat is On</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our continuing effort to cut the temperature in the house and reduce our electricity usage rate, we&#8217;ve added a new tool: the solar screen. The basic concept is similar to the reflective film, in that the idea is to reduce the amount of sunlight and heat that get into the house in the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=366&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Summer Heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July is definitely here&#8211;it&#8217;s 102 in the shade again today. Our house faces west, which means that as the day goes on, our living room gets pretty warm. And our electric bill just arrived, and it&#8217;s pretty high. While we do plan to replace the cheap mini-blinds that cover many of the windows&#8211;we&#8217;ve already done [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=363&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Your Cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since today it hit 102 in the shade at our place, it seemed like a good time to revisit this green LA girl post about staying cool (or at least less hot) without air conditioning. (Full disclosure: we&#8217;ve run ours like crazy since we got home&#8211;it really is 102 in the shade&#8211;but we&#8217;re taking steps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4922590&amp;post=358&amp;subd=howgreenismyvalley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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