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		<title>Endangered Species Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Endangered Species Day. President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Several years ago the United States Senate designated the third Friday in May as Endangered Species Day to bring awareness to the plight of various species of wildlife and their habitat due to human development. &#8220;Only after the last tree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ladymin.com&amp;blog=2499452&amp;post=2990&amp;subd=ladymin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arbor Day was founded in Nebraska in 1872 when J. Sterling Morton, then President of the Agricultural Board, proposed the planting of trees to attract more people to the state. Today all 50 states plus other countries around the globe celebrate Arbor day. We celebrate on the last Friday in April here in Illinois. Other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ladymin.com&amp;blog=2499452&amp;post=2931&amp;subd=ladymin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day Celebrates 40 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do something nice for the planet.  It&#8217;s the only one we have so treat it with care. After 40 years of earth days we should all be aware of our environment and what we can do to protect it no matter how insignificant one small act seems. So, plant a flower, recycle something, pick up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ladymin.com&amp;blog=2499452&amp;post=2902&amp;subd=ladymin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Hour 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie (LadyMin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Hour will take place on Saturday, March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time. Turn off the lights, light the fireplace, grab the candles or go outside and look up at the night sky. I know it&#8217;s just for one hour, but it does bring a lot of people together for a global cause and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ladymin.com&amp;blog=2499452&amp;post=2799&amp;subd=ladymin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bzzzzzzzzzzz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie (LadyMin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bumble Bees were out in force yesterday. There haven&#8217;t been as many this year. Maybe the sunny afternoon brought them to my yard. This one is happily sipping on a marigold flower. Posted in Environment, Wildlife Tagged: Environment, insects, Wildlife<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ladymin.com&amp;blog=2499452&amp;post=1676&amp;subd=ladymin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Send GrrlScientist to Antarctica</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grrlscientist has entered a competition to be the official blogger For Quark Expeditions on their month long visit to Antarctica. Vote for her and help send her on a dream trip. It&#8217;s really easy, all you need to do is give them your name and email address and then vote. Antarctica is much too cold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ladymin.com&amp;blog=2499452&amp;post=1585&amp;subd=ladymin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every Day is Earth Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day is earth day for me. Gardening definitely brings one more in touch with nature and the planet, but you don&#8217;t have to be a gardener to want to do a few simple things to help the earth. Use that canvas grocery bag that always gets forgotten, pick up a wayward piece of litter, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ladymin.com&amp;blog=2499452&amp;post=915&amp;subd=ladymin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Project Budburst</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie (LadyMin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I signed up for Project Budburst and will be gathering environmental and climate change information in my own backyard. Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for citizen scientists designed to engage the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers. That&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ladymin.com&amp;blog=2499452&amp;post=811&amp;subd=ladymin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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