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		<title>Washington named most bike-friendly state | Seattle Bike Blog</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://seattlebikeblog.com/2012/05/22/washington-named-most-bike-friendly-state/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<source url="">Seattle Bike Blog</source>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington State has claimed the top spot on the League of American Bicyclists’ list of bike-friendly states for the fifth year in a row. It determined that Washington is the only state to score well in all five of their key criteria, and the only on to get a positive score in the “Infrastructure and Funding” category.]]></description>
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		<title>Are pedestrian issues too pedestrian for Vancouver? | Vancouver Observer</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/megabytes/2012/05/23/are-pedestrian-issues-too-pedestrian-vancouvers-bicycle-automobile-wars]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<source url="">Vancouver Observer</source>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s ironic that walking is so neglected in the noise generated by the battles between cars and cyclists. It's the most ubiquitous form of transportation, and yet walkers are uniquely vulnerable. While pedestrians are involved in less than 2 per cent of all traffic accidents in Vancouver BC, they account for 45 per cent of all traffic fatalities.]]></description>
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		<title>BPA replacement permeates receipts | Chemical & Engineering News</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/05/BPA-Replacement-Permeates-Paper-Products.html]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<source url="">Chemical & Engineering News</source>
		<description><![CDATA[Concerns about the health effects of bisphenol A have led manufacturers to produce and market BPA-free products. However, a new study has found that one of the compounds that replaces BPA is just as prevalent in receipts and could lead to significant human exposure to endocrine disruptors.]]></description>
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		<title>Not in my parking lot | Portland Mercury</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a test case for Portland's car-camping program, neighbors freak out.]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Seattle Times&#039; wins fight against density | Crosscut</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://crosscut.com/2012/05/23/fizzjolt/108771/jolt-density-Seattle-city-council-36th-district/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<source url="">Crosscut</source>
		<description><![CDATA[Caving to pressure from homeowners who argued that the proposal would "ruin" their single-family neighborhoods and make them unsafe for families, Seattle City Council's land use committee voted to abandon, at least temporarily, a proposal to allow small commercial uses on the ground floor of low-rise buildings in urban centers and within a few blocks of light rail stations.]]></description>
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		<title>Railroaded | The Stranger</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/railroaded/Content?oid=13742136]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<source url="">The Stranger</source>
		<description><![CDATA[Is light rail driving minorities out of Seattle's Rainier Valley?]]></description>
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		<title>WA bunnies find unexpected success in the wild | Wenatchee World</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2012/may/22/bunnies-find-unexpected-success-in-the-wild/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<source url="">Wenatchee World</source>
		<description><![CDATA[With pillow cases hanging from their back pockets, Dave Volson and Chad Eidson spent two days last week crawling under sage brush and sticking their hands down rabbit holes looking for baby bunnies. The two state biologists didn’t go away empty handed, in an unexpected and celebrated turn of events in the rocky, decade-long effort to save the tiny endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit from extinction.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for $1 trillion? Eliminate fossil fuel subsidies | Grist</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://grist.org/article/looking-for-1-trillon/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<source url="">Grist</source>
		<description><![CDATA[I learned from Google that if you stacked one trillion dollar bills on top of each other, they would go a third of the way to the moon. That’s insane. It's also why a new fact sheet showing that the fossil fuel industry now receives something on the order of $1 trillion globally from government subsidies is so scary and infuriating.]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle council gearing up to oppose coal exports | KPLU</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.kplu.org/post/seattle-gearing-oppose-coal-exports-northwest-ports]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least 9 trains a day could soon rumble through Seattle, carrying coal to export terminals in Washington and Oregon. Cities from Missoula, Mont., to Edmonds have passed resolutions that call the idea into question. Seattle is now poised to join them with one of its own.]]></description>
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		<title>The 100-mile house | Spacing Vancouver</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://spacingvancouver.ca/2012/05/23/winners-of-100-mile-house-ideas-competition-announced/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<source url="">Spacing Vancouver</source>
		<description><![CDATA[The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia in February launched an international design competition to design a house using materials and technology sourced within 100 miles of the city of Vancouver, Canada. Here are the winners.]]></description>
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