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	<title>Built from Trash!</title>
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	<description>A house made from old tires, newspaper, bottles and more</description>
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		<title>Before the Build</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s mid-August, hot and humid, with record temperatures in the upper 90&#8242;s. We&#8217;ve been terracing the hillside, digging out for the waterfall and filling the retaining wall tires. Hoping to stay a little cooler, today, we decided to take a break from digging and write bit about the house building. We bought this land in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging Out to Dry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I decided to do something to change the world.  I built a solar clothes dryer.  It wasn&#8217;t my first, and it only took about an hour to put it up.  One thing is for certain, it&#8217;ll save money and won&#8217;t foul up the air and water. Here are step-by-step instructions for how you, too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding our Magic Land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 2004: We had just finished our 2nd cross-country bicycle ride (from San Francisco to New York City) in August when the Realtor called to say he found a buyer for our cottage in Fort Erie Canada.  The bad news was that  the buyers wanted to expedite the closing and we were stranded on Stanton [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://builtfromtrash.com/2010/06/28/finding-our-magic-land/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=finding-our-magic-land</link>
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		<title>The Solastalgia Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solastalgia describes the grief felt by those of us who care about human-caused, catastrophic environmental damage. We just created a Facebook Community Page where people suffering from Solastalgia can meet others who want to DO something! Don&#8217;t waste your time arguing with global warming deniers and waiting for politicians to pass clean and renewable energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://builtfromtrash.com/2010/06/27/the-solastalgia-project/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-solastalgia-project</link>
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		<title>Human Powered Lawn-mower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ted Wojcik of Ted Wojcik Custom Bicycles designed and built this pedal-powered lawn mower with a fixed gear in it so it can go forward and backward &#8212; which is essential when using a push-mower.  When you stop pedaling, it stops moving so it doesn’t require brakes.    I doubt if it would be a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Area Rug Made from Bicycle Inner-Tubes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Danish designer Annemette Beck creates textiles from recycled materials such as rubber, paper and metal.  Her line of woven products include rugs, upholstery, fabrics, runners, blinds and even room dividers. Beck’s experimental textiles showcase materials that can be salvaged and re-used.  The photos show area rugs made by weaving recycled bicycle inner-tubes and tires. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here are a few simple things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few small things each of us can do to reduce our carbon footprint]]></description>
		<link>http://builtfromtrash.com/2010/05/24/reduce-your-carbon-footprint/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=reduce-your-carbon-footprint</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Just Gripe, Do Something!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[// As I am writing this post, oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico (resulting from the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig) at a rate never before seen.  The environmental consequences from this one disaster are probably too vast to comprehend. At the same time, coal continues to be extracted miles beneath [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://builtfromtrash.com/2010/05/23/do-something/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=do-something</link>
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		<title>Our Papercrete Recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[// When we were researching papercrete, we found many different recipes and mixer-types.  After trying various recipies and because we have a clay-based soil on our land, we settled on the following papercrete recipe: 5 parts drained paper mulch 5 parts sifted clay 1 part Portland Cement 1 shake of Borax Soak newspaper and magazines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to get a permit for your alternative building construction.]]></description>
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