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		<title>Choose Your Own Bike Commute Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2009/09/choose-your-own-bike-commute-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September means Bike Commute Challenge month in Portland – a month in which the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and the city promote bike commuting by encouraging friendly competition between individuals at local businesses to see who can bike the most in the month. It&#8217;s a great idea, especially for larger companies that draw a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs an SUV when you can have a Prius?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/10/who-needs-an-suv-when-you-can-have-a-prius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often have you heard someone say &#8220;Well, I need room to haul stuff&#8230;&#8221; when contemplating a new car purchase? This mythical &#8220;stuff&#8221; becomes the rationalization for buying an SUV or station wagon with enough room to haul around large objects. People poo-poo the Prius or similar sized cars as not having enough room for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwashing, Energy, and the Rhetoric of Disingenuity</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/07/greenwashing-energy-and-the-rhetoric-of-disingenuity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas & Theories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I think of coal used for energy, I think of China, filthy air, dire situations, under-developed nations, the iron-grip of Communism. Coal is the fuel of Tolstoy and World War I and the Eastern Block, a phantom from the early 20th century, a black spot on our environmental history. Coal is up there with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-evaluating True Cost of Ownership</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/07/re-evaluating-true-cost-of-ownership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting around]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas, as we know, is becoming ridiculously expensive. Add that to what we now know about global warming and we see many people clamoring to ditch their old cars to buy new hybids. I know I sure did it, trading my Mazda 3 hatchback in for a Prius last year when my Mazda lease ran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refueling a nation?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/06/refueling-a-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/06/refueling-a-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are trying times. The economy is in a downturn, the war in Iraq lingers on, gas costs over $4 a gallon, and large businesses in America are losing money. At times like this, I think back to WWII and the efforts of the government and businesses to bolster the economy, how they encouraged thrift, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bike Drive Walk: Getting from there to here</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/04/bike-drive-walk-getting-from-there-to-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/04/bike-drive-walk-getting-from-there-to-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 03:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last week I&#8217;ve driven my car 53 miles, ridden my bike 31 miles, and walked roughly 10 miles. I drove to work once, to Lake Oswego for a meeting, to Powell Butte for a hike, and to Hillsboro for softball games. That&#8217;s a lot more driving than I usually do, so I&#8217;ll have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Earth Day confession</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/04/an-earth-day-confession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/04/an-earth-day-confession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Saving the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it might be hard to believe, but for about a year or so back in 1999 I stopped believing in global warming. I caught myself saying things like, “How do we know the Ice Age is really done? Maybe the warming is totally natural.”
Woah. How could I go from living with Earth First!ers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The wheels on my bike go &#039;round and &#039;round</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/04/the-wheels-on-my-bike-go-round-and-round/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/04/the-wheels-on-my-bike-go-round-and-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting around]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saving the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bike commuting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to be a bus commuter. It was better than trying to drive to work in bumper-to-bumper traffic then have to pay for parking, and at least I could read while I sat (or stood) in a cramped bus. Depending on where I worked at the time, my commute took from 30 – 60 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A community of doers</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/04/a-community-of-doers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building a community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland is a small small town in some ways. Working in the interactive industry only seems to exaggerate the smallness, since everyone has worked with everyone somewhere along the line. If I had a nickel for every time I met a prospective client who turned out to be best friends with a friend, friends with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#039;s your head at?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/03/wheres-your-head-at/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsanddeeds.com/2008/03/wheres-your-head-at/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just reading and article on the BTA Blog about updating your old, tired out helmet, which reminded me that I should change out my own helmet even though it&#8217;s barely more than a year old.
I bought a new helmet last winter because my previous one reached the three year mark, the age at [...]]]></description>
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