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		<title>Practical and Ready-to-Use Green Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuff like wearable, data-logging and other nanotechnology clothing or solar celled balloons seem cool and savvy but are hard to support because of their impracticality (so far) and lack of popularity (again, so far), both qualities which make them hard to find to buy in the first place.  Recently, though, Apartment Therapy Marketplace offers up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Green, Ride a Bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you serious about going green and living a more environment-friendly lifestyle? Take that bike out of the basement and start pedaling away. The two-wheeled, human-driven, single-track vehicle is one of today’s most excellent solutions for being able to get around – without harming the environment. There’s also no better place for cyclists than the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/go-green-ride-a-bike/</link>
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		<title>Urban Harvest: Grow Your Own Window Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to grow your own greens but don’t have an outdoor space? The Window Farms Project started in 2009 by Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray for an artists’ residency at NYC’s Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology and has grown from PDF directions of how to build an entire farm yourself to available kits, assembled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/windowfarm/</link>
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		<title>8 Great Tips on Green Kitchen Remodeling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remodeling a kitchen makes perfect sense – particularly if you haven’t yet taken the next step to make this part of your home green and environment-friendly. A conventional kitchen can account for most of a homeowner’s energy use, and – according to the U.S. Department of Energy – kitchen lights, refrigerators, and cooking appliances alone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/8-great-tips-on-green-kitchen-remodeling/</link>
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		<title>Local Efforts: ComEd Smart Meter Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Credit to Greentechmedia.com ComEd, along with many other electrical companies throughout the US such as Southern California Edison, Duke Energy in North Carolina, Pacific Gas and Electric in California, Empowerment Institute in New York, and Oncor Electric Delivery in Texas, among others, has implemented the use of Smart Meter programs.  ComEd’s program offers an online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/smartmeter/</link>
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		<title>LEED and Passive Houses around Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may seem far-fetched for us renters to consider life that doesn’t include some serious winter bills from People’s Gas but there quite a bit of good architecture that is based around LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), an internationally recognized green building certificate system. The LEED for Homes Illinois website, run by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/leedandpassive/</link>
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		<title>Build Your Own AC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since a lot of us city-dwellers are without AC and a lot of those who have it don’t like to pay the expensive bills, here are a few ways you can build your own AC unit that can be placed strategically around our apartments, no window necessary, to help keep us cool while keeping conservative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/buildyourownac/</link>
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		<title>REUSE REPURPOSE: Creative Lighting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether you are moving, redecorating, cleaning, whatever, consider how you can reuse things you already own or where you can purchase or exchange used items.  Think beyond that $3,000 “vintage” coffee table from Anthropologie for a moment. Obviously thrift stores are a great place to start but even your own pantry closet or attic may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/creativelighting/</link>
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		<title>Five Traits of a Green Bathroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t be fooled by its size. A bathroom – often the smallest room in a house – offers plenty of opportunities to go green and make a positive impact on the environment. Be it through water conservation, eco-savvy bathroom systems, environment-friendly building materials, moisture control, or green cleaning and personal care products, you can, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/five-traits-of-a-green-bathroom/</link>
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		<title>Rain Barrels 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a particularly wet day it seemed appropriate to consider how rain can be channeled to do something other than ruin the bottoms of your pants.  There has been a good amount of discussion around rain barrels and how collected water can be used for watering lawns and gardens as well as non-drinking household use.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenwerkspro.com/rainbarrels/</link>
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