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	<title>What it's like</title>
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	<description>experience--customers, culture, environment, politics...it's all interconnected.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Plastic bottles: dumb stuff we do</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/plastic-bottles-dumb-stuff-we-do/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/plastic-bottles-dumb-stuff-we-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[local environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[5K run]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Greg Nickels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plastic water bottles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recycle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[talking rain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Last Sunday I ran a 5K (Fred Hutch Shore Run) down along Lake Washington Blvd to Madison Park&#8211;gorgeous run, beautiful hot morning, a real summer event.  That area is one of the prettiest in Seattle, lots of character and lazy summer lakefront vistas.
Once over the finish line, I was directed to the predictable tables of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upsides and Downsides of a Remote Workforce</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/upsides-and-downsides-of-a-remote-workforce/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/upsides-and-downsides-of-a-remote-workforce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carbon footprint]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[distributed workforce]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gas savings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[remote workforce]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[telecommuter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[telecommuting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teleworker]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a good side and a bad side to telecommuting.  Right now: it's a photo finish for me.]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">seacat</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">telecommuniting from an espresso joint</media:title>
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		<title>Message to Ralph Nader</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/370/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/370/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nader]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[third party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/370/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are your laurels.  Lie down and take a nap on them.


This is good, it&#8217;s funny, and it&#8217;s freaking true.  Dear God, please: not again.
       ]]></description>
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		<title>Not on my watch!  A working meditation story about recycling.</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/not-on-my-watch-a-working-meditation-story-about-recycling/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/not-on-my-watch-a-working-meditation-story-about-recycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[local environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[composting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plastic bag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[silent retreat]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[spirit rock meditation center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vipassana]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[work meditation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief experiment in the full cycle of garbage, recycling and composting the refuse of a small community.]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">seacat</media:title>
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		<title>plastic: the dawning realization</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/plastic-the-dawning-realization/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/plastic-the-dawning-realization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[composting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[green lifestyle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plastic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plastic bags]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plastic packaging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, what I&#8217;ve figured out over the past two weeks:  not using my car is like a walk in the park compared to managing plastic.  You can clean and save all the bags and re-use them week after week at the grocery store until you are blue in the face and it will [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">recyclable plastic containers</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/plastic-bags.thumbnail.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">plastic bags</media:title>
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		<title>Plastic: the beginning.</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/plastic-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/plastic-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[food storage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[landfills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plastic bag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plastic bags]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[re-use plastic bags]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wax paper]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My grandmother had what seemed from to me, a funny habit with plastic bags.  But first, let’s back up.

When I was a little kid, we had wax paper.  We had wax paper for sandwiches and wax paper for covering bowls in the fridge, wax paper for all the uses where plastic is used now.  Plastic [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">seacat</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/ct1-31_waxpaper.thumbnail.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">ct1-31_waxpaper.jpg</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/product-collage1.thumbnail.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">plastic bags</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/bag_dryer1.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">plastic bag dryer</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/landfill_w350h263.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Plastic bad landfill</media:title>
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		<title>Days 360-365: MLwC hits the Year End Mark</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/days-360-365-mlwc-hits-the-year-end-mark/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/days-360-365-mlwc-hits-the-year-end-mark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Cause]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hybrid-electric bus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alternate transportation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bike]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bike envy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[breaking up with my car]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[built-in obsolescence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cadillac desert]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[calm clear mind]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[car addiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[carbon based]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[connections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ditch your car]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy grid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environmental activism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[global climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[green lifestyle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[local environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mass production]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mass retailer goes green]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[personal action]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[planned obsolescence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[population growth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[car]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ So, I thought in honor of the project that has changed the way I think about driving&#8211;this grew-up-in-Southern-California-you&#8217;ll -take-my-car-from-my-cold-dead-hands girl&#8211;I thought I&#8217;d review some of the high points along the way.



First, recollection of the project&#8217;s goal as I&#8217;ve stated it on the blog:
MLwC stands for My Life w Car, a year long project to think [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">seacat</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/bianchi-bicycle-photo21.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">bianchi bike</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/sr520.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">sr520.jpg</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/seattle071.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">seattle071.jpg</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/1969-ford-aurora-ii-country-squire-concept-station-wagon-interior-r3q-bw.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">station wagon promo pic</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/urbanforest.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">urbanforest.jpg</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/crowd-roars.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The crowd roars</media:title>
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		<title>Hillary speaks for me.</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/hillary-speaks-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/hillary-speaks-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like Obama.  If he gets the nomination, I will work for him because what I&#8217;m passionate about is taking back our country.
But I remain steadfast in believing that Hillary is talking about things that matter to me.  I really believe she is the stronger candidate.
But besides all that, here&#8217;s a vid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 353-359: MLwC and Just Days Away From My One Year End Date!</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/day-353-359-mlwc-and-just-days-away-from-my-one-year-end-date/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/day-353-359-mlwc-and-just-days-away-from-my-one-year-end-date/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[alternate transportation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[calm clear mind]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[car addiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[connections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freeways suck]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[car usage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[driving addiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[year long project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been racing around so much lately that I haven&#8217;t been able to post much, but I&#8217;ve got a lot on my mind&#8211;lack of posts doesn&#8217;t equal lack of thoughts.
First, this project over in Poulsbo is still keeping me tied to my car in a way I thought I&#8217;d gotten away from.  But I [...]]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://seacat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/real_cake_inside.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">let them eat cake</media:title>
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		<title>Days 346-352: MLwC and some caucus thoughts</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/days-346-352-mlwc-and-some-caucus-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/days-346-352-mlwc-and-some-caucus-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Washington, the state with the most bizarre electoral processes imaginable (I&#8217;m convinced it&#8217;s because by February in Washington, at least in Western Washington, we&#8217;ve all got cabin fever and have lost it big time), we had our caucuses on Saturday.  I loved it, I loved it last time around as well, although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 339-345: MLwC, a Can-Do Attitude and Hope</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/days-339-345-mlwc-and-a-can-do-attitude/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/days-339-345-mlwc-and-a-can-do-attitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Cause]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blessed unrest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corporate culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Can-do attitude]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[democrat]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[primary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[progressive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vote]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We democrats are lucky this time around: we&#8217;ve got two awesome candidates and I&#8217;ll be happy when either one of them wins in November&#8211;as I&#8217;m certain one of them will.  Whoever gets the nod in the run-up, I just hope they have the good sense to step back and let the Repugnicans tear each [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">seacat</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Rosie the Riveter and Hillary Clinton</media:title>
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		<title>Days 332-338: MLwC and The Story of Stuff</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/days-332-338-mlwc-and-the-story-of-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/days-332-338-mlwc-and-the-story-of-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seacat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blessed unrest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[built-in obsolescence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[compact]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environmental activism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mass production]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[personal action]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[planned obsolescence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[population growth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Annie Leonard]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consumer madness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[less is more]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Story of Stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seacat.wordpress.com/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I started this year long project to examine and change my transportation habits, I had a sneaking suspicion that no matter what I did&#8211;ride a bike, take a bus, walk, drive my car&#8211;one fundamental thing had to change: driving less means using less. Driving is about Consuming, pure and simple, and what I&#8217;ve learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 323-331: MLwC, the easy Shake &#8216;n Pour Pancake mix &#38; John Edwards</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/days-323-331-mlwc-and-the-easy-shake-n-pour-pancake-mix-john-edwards/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/days-323-331-mlwc-and-the-easy-shake-n-pour-pancake-mix-john-edwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[composting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corporate culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mass production]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
In the annals of things I would not have thought needed improvement: pancake mix containers.  There&#8217;s someone somewhere who&#8217;s job it is to figure out how to improve on things that work fine in order to sell more products, and I think that might not be a very good use of someone&#8217;s time&#8211;I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 318-323: MLwC and how to plan for bike traffic</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/days-318-323-mlwc-and-the-juntoventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[alternate transportation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[ditch your car]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[bike boxes in portland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bike car collisions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bike fatalities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent NYTimes article, we find a discussion of bike safety in bike-haven Portland, Oregon.  Portland is probably America&#8217;s most bike friendly city, so if bikers get killed by cars there, you gotta wonder why.
Turns out that most bike accidents happen at intersections.  My own bike-car face-off (I lost) of some years back happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 314-317: MLwC and How I Became Stupid</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/days-314-317-mlwc-and-how-i-became-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[How I Became Stupid by Martin Page]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great title, eh? How I Became Stupid is a wee novel I came across recently by French author Martin Page.  His first novel, it&#8217;s billed as a &#8220;humorous &#38; surprising mixture of optimism and nihilism.&#8221;  Oh those French!  It&#8217;s a quick, entertaining and thought provoking read which brought up a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 308-313: MLwC and random New Year Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/days-308-313-mlwc-and-random-new-year-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/days-308-313-mlwc-and-random-new-year-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[connections]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[global immune system]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[wildlife]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird feeders]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Sandpoint ID]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s going to be a very good year.  I got a new squirrel feeder for Christmas from my nephew&#8217;s kids who are smitten with our resident squirrels, all of whom are named (of course) Sandy. The new feeder is the one they use in some state parks, and is pretty cool, looks like this:

Ours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 301-307: MLwC and an idea about consumption</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/days-301-307-mlwc-and-an-idea-about-consumption/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/days-301-307-mlwc-and-an-idea-about-consumption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[global climate change]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[buy le]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[buying less this christmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s consumption in the modern sense of the disease: think SUVs crammed with stuff.  Come on, most of us did it to one degree or another this season, even if we didn&#8217;t use an SUV to haul the stuff around.  So, let&#8217;s try to take our consuming habits apart one piece at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 298-300: MLwC and not much else</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/days-298-300-mlwc-and-not-much-else/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/days-298-300-mlwc-and-not-much-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed&#8211;MLwC just crossed the 300 day mark.  Closer and closer.
Don&#8217;t have time for much more than a tally right now&#8230;Are you ready for the solstice?

Daily Stats (Mon, Tue, Wed)
Car: 5 miles
Bike: 5 miles
Ped: 1.5 miles
Bus: 8 miles
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		<title>Days 294-297: MLwC, looking past the current president and the Seattle ride metro campaign</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/days-294-297-mlwc-looking-past-the-current-president-and-the-seattle-ride-metro-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/days-294-297-mlwc-looking-past-the-current-president-and-the-seattle-ride-metro-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bus]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[car addiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[global climate change]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Bali]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bike commuters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[George Bush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Bike pilot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[King County]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an article in the NYTimes today about how the global climate summit in Bali that&#8217;s been taking place for the last two weeks, came to the conclusion that they would need to plan beyond the current US administration if they were going to deal with the future of the environment at all.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 292 &#38; 293: MLwC and a few other things</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/days-292-293-mlwc-and-a-few-other-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[neighbors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[TV addiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[gotta be quick today.  But I&#8217;ve been reading some other blogs and wanted to highlight a couple.
First, my neighbor Tom who is the bigolddaddy, discusses all the myriad of things one might do if one didn&#8217;t watch TV.  Now, to some degree and in some ways, watching TV is like driving&#8211;it&#8217;s way too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 291: MLwC and green holidays</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/day-291-mlwc-and-green-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/day-291-mlwc-and-green-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Seattle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[christian environmentalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[green lifestyle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[personal action]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[planned obsolescence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[friends and family]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Christmas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LED lights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[what do lights have to do with Jesus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have a house nearby our West Seattle home that is a veritable beacon of light every holiday season.  Literally, you can see it for miles, if not smell it.  There&#8217;s something about that many lights burning bright in the night that smells like&#8230;well, like electricity or something.  People drive from miles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 287-290: MLwC and the difference a single person can make</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/days-287-290-mlwc-and-the-difference-a-single-person-can-make/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social webs of meaning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[systems thinking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CNN Heroes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[local heroes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Hawken]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently CNN has been running a show about Heroes.  My cynical self sees this as riffing off the popular TV show by the same name, and then, maybe a little more critical than I need to be, I wonder what the bottom-line impact on the average viewer is seeing what these real-life heroes have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 285-286: MLwC and it&#8217;s a Green Thing Christmas</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/days-285-286-mlwc-and-its-a-green-thing-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/days-285-286-mlwc-and-its-a-green-thing-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[re-use]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recycle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[seattle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Do the Green Thing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[don't buy new stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Storms in Seattle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[the year 2020]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Go ahead and have an irreverent chuckle with the new green-idea-of-the-month video for December.  Do the Green Thing , it&#8217;s all in good fun. The idea is: buy something old this Christmas, or maybe nothing at all, and try to remember what Christmas is really all about.  Now, there&#8217;s a radical act!
Thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 282-284: MLwC and thinking about pavement differently</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/days-282-284-mlwc-and-thinking-about-pavement-differently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[520 bridge]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Greg Nickels]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[traffic congestion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Seattle&#8217;s Mayor Greg Nickels spoke on our local radio station KUOW to address environmental issues in the Puget Sound area.  He discussed his leadership in the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement which evolved from the current Fed decision to not participate in the Kyoto agreement.  Nickels and many other mayors took matters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 278-281: MLwC and can we stop eating ourselves out of house and home?</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/days-278-281-mlwc-and-can-we-stop-eating-ourselves-out-of-house-and-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jared Diamond, of Guns, Germs and Steel fame, wrote another book that got its share of acclaim but not nearly the read GSG did, for some reason.  The other book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive basically chronicles our species&#8217; historical tendency to consume itself out of house and home, with some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 273-277: MLwC and what happens when you don&#8217;t drive your car very much&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/days-273-277-mlwc-and-what-happens-when-you-dont-drive-your-car-very-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We took a brief vacation over the holiday to San Juan Island up near the watery boarder between the US and Canada. We were really looking forward to getting away for a couple of days, bike riding and hiking our way through the Thanksgiving holiday.

We managed to reserve a perfect little cabin at Lonesome Cove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 269 thru 272: MLwC&#8211;it&#8217;s a beautiful day in the neighborhood!</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/days-269-thru-272-mlwc-its-a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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So, after many days of dreary gray skies and buckets of rain, today burst forth with brilliant sunlight, crisp blue skies and puffy clouds rolling across the horizon. I took a ride to Alki and to run my errands and stopped to take a snap of this view&#8211;too bright, actually, so I put my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 267 &#38; 268: MLwC and Good Carma</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/days-267-268-mlwc-and-good-carma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pal Brian sent me a a link to a new site that&#8217;s getting some buzz.  It&#8217;s Carma&#8211;Carbon Monitoring for Action, and it maps and rates carbon footprints of power plants and power companies by region and country, all over the world.  It&#8217;s a deep site, with lots of drill down options so when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 264-266: MLwC and a Seattle Transit Rider&#8217;s Union?</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/day-264-266-mlwc-and-a-seattle-transit-riders-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I continue to be intrigued with the idea of a bus and transit rider&#8217;s union, which I touched on in a recent post. What would a transit rider&#8217;s union do and why might it be a good idea here in Seattle? In Los Angeles, the bus rider&#8217;s union has a voice in most if not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 261-263: MLwC and the Blog of the Day</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/days-261-263-mlwc-and-the-blog-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just getting so much enjoyment out of La Marguerite&#8217;s blog and her blog actions.  Two different things: her own writings that she is posting on her blog chronicle her daily actions&#8211;like ALL of her action and how they impact the environment.  She calls it her Daily Footprint Project and she uses it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 260: MLwC, a new group of voters and a bus riders&#8217; union!</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/day-260-mlwc-a-new-group-of-voters-and-a-bus-riders-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted a comment that lamented our collective and general inability to put large concepts into practice in our daily lives, a large generality that is mostly true, but startlingly untrue sometimes.  I read today in the Seattle PI about how the mass transit part of the transportation bill that was voted down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 258-259: MLwC and Roads, Revisited, Rejected, Reviled</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Thanks to Carless in Seattle for surfacing the above vid, a commercial which actually made the hair on my neck tingle with anxiety.
I&#8217;ve posted a couple of times about Prop 1/RTID referendum here in Washington; of course we had the election yesterday and it looks like the proposal is going down in defeat, if not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 257: MLwC and a new green site that&#8217;s not what you would expect&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/day-257-mlwc-and-a-new-green-site-thats-not-what-you-would-expect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[green humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think green sites are lacking a certain je ne sais quois? Humor, edge, sex?  Well, you would be wrong&#8230;.check out GreenThing, a new non-profit social networking site started by a group of certifiables, including a friend of mine James Alexander of many start-ups-fame. The first vid on the home page is fabulous! Predictably, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 255-256: MLwC and Prop 1 in Seattle</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/day-255-256-mlwc-and-prop-1-in-seattle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My neighbors Susan and Tom stopped me in the driveway yesterday asking if I&#8217;d read Jay Inslee&#8217;s opinion in the Seattle PI from Thursday regarding his endorsement of the hotly contested Prop 1 transportation bill.  I like Jay Inslee so I was interested to hear he was supporting this thing, but indicated I&#8217;d already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 252-254: MLwC, one thing Bush could have done right and a Hallowe&#8217;en snap</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/days-252-254-mlwc-one-thing-bush-could-have-done-right-and-a-halloween-snap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really.  I never expected much from Bush, not ever.  I didn&#8217;t expect good leadership, never expected reflective, thoughtful governance. In my mind, the bar was set pretty low from the get go.  And he&#8217;s not done much to raise it.
But lately I&#8217;m reminded of one little thing, one crystal clear thing he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 246-251: MLwC and the wild fear of no exit</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/days-246-251-mlwc-and-the-wild-fear-of-no-exit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoa&#8211;this blog got away from me for a few days.  Like a LOT of days.  I&#8217;m not sure where I&#8217;ve been&#8230;.
I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the insight I had the other day which I described in 64 miles to mindfulness.  Of course, the idea of No Exit has been around in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 244-245: MYLwC, Support your Local Ruminant and Blog Action Ruminations</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/days-244-245-mylwc-support-your-local-ruminant-and-blog-action-ruminations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

 Meet one of the goats that is busily clearing out some ivy-infested soon-to-be gardens for kids at our nearby Gatewood Elementary.  Well, actually, he&#8217;s not busy.  He&#8217;s taking a break.  This one is much more indicative of the ruminant activity taking place:

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		<title>Days 241-243: MLwC and 64 Miles to Mindfulness</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/days-241-243-mlwc-and-64-miles-to-mindfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I headed out yesterday to an all day meditation retreat held by Seattle Insight Meditation at Bastyr College, a 24 mile drive from my house in West Seattle.  I was really looking forward to this retreat as I&#8217;ve been a little, well, how to say?  Unfocused lately.
Anyway, so I took off leaving myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>days 238-240: MLwC and Deborah Kerr (pronounced Car)</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/days-238-240-mlwc-and-deborah-kerr-pronounced-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, this site is My Life with Kerr (prounounced Car)

Deborah Kerr passed away this week at 86.  There are a lot of adoring fans in mourning, and while I&#8217;m not an adoring fan, just an admirer (I really liked her acting a lot&#8211;An Affair to Remember just rips me up every time), I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh yeah!  It&#8217;s Blog Action Day!</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/oh-yeah-its-blog-action-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[La Marguerite reminded me this afternoon that it&#8217;s Blog Action Day!
And for Blog Action Day, beyond my post this morning, I want to cede my time to a most excellent and profound post that reminds us to reach beyond our own circle of like minded friends now and again, when the opportunity arises.  Thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 233-237: MLwC, roads and more roads</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/day-233-237-mlwc-roads-and-more-roads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s likely true that traffic will expand so as to fill the roads available to it.
I&#8217;ve seen some long lonely roads zig-zagging through Texas and there are country roads in every state where you can count the cars that pass in an hour on one hand.  But in metropolitan areas, the solution to traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 229-232: MLwC and there&#8217;s a bus in the urban garden!</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/days-229-232-mlwc-and-theres-a-bus-in-the-urban-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My pal Yo recently pointed me to an article on Putting People First about the Mobile Experience Laboratory at MIT, and how the thought leaders there are trying to take advantage of the current global-climate-change-dependence-on-oil moment in our collective lives. Federico Casalagno is a sociologist on the MIT team who is focused on making bus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 225-228: MLwC, One Fell Swoop and Canadian Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/days-225-228-mlwc-one-fell-swoop-and-canadian-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one fell swoop, I have nearly driven half the amount in three days that I did the entire previous quarter.  As noted in the last quarterly round-up,  I drove a little more than 300 miles total.  In the last three days, I&#8217;ve driven around town 130 miles&#8211;whoa!  What&#8217;s going on?
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 222-224: MLwC, Thomas Friedman and Vegetarian Cuisine</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/days-222-224-mlwc-thomas-friedman-and-vegetarian-cuisine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Thomas Friedman (by any stretch), but I do think he&#8217;s thoughtful and articulate so I read his articles when I have the chance.  Last week he had an article entitled Lead, Follow or Move Aside which struck a true note regarding global climate change.
He&#8217;s basically bemoaning our current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 218 thru 221: MLwC, the rainy season and the restlessness of desire</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/days-218-thru-221-mlwc-and-the-rainy-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rainy season has come early to the Northwest this year.  The temp has dropped quickly and I&#8217;m having to pull a lot of tomatoes off the vine and ripen them indoors. I was thinking today of how this new season will impact my fledgling  transportation habits&#8230;for example, I&#8217;m nervous taking my laptop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 217: MLwC and the Very Important Bike Conversation</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/day-217-mlwc-and-the-very-important-bike-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
B2 sent a great comment to my previous post about Bike Conduct.  Since Brian commutes all over the area, I take his thoughts and opinions to heart.  As he notes, it sounds like the rider in the previous post was indeed obnoxious but that, &#8220;your friend, through no fault of her own, became the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raw Video: San Diego Mayor Sanders Supports Gay Marriage

I was reading this morning about how the Buddha, when he first left his ascetic life and began living in the world again, reached out to the &#8220;untouchables.&#8221;  As he said, you may think whatever you want but a lie will never be the truth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 215 and 216: MLwC and the secret bicyclist code of conduct</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/day-215-and-216-mlwc-and-the-secret-bicyclist-code-of-conduct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were to say, &#8220;Bicyclists have the same rights as car drivers on the road,&#8221; would you agree?  And if you agreed, what would that mean?  Does that mean, for example, that bicyclists have to signal before turning (not that all car drivers do, but by law they&#8217;re supposed to).  Does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 213 and 214: MLwC and the discreet charm of an older car</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started to drive, the general expectation was that I would 1) have an older, hand-me-down car and 2) I would maintain it for a long time, without the real expectation of a brand, spanking new car anywhere in my dizzy head.  The first car I had was a Ford Falcon which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 210, 211 and 212: MLwC and the upside of assholes</title>
		<link>http://seacat.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/day-207-and-208-mlwc-and-the-upside-of-assholes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmmm.  I&#8217;m not sure about that title, but it&#8217;s late and I&#8217;m tired.
I read a post of mine from a while back, Day 49 and the upside of assholes or something,  that was a scree about asshole managers.  And you know what&#8217;s really weird?  Just today I had another run-in with [...]]]></description>
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