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	<title>My Grandma Was Green</title>
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	<description>Examining the past in order to learn to live more sustainably and simply in the present.</description>
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		<title>Is That the Best I Can Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bar Soap?  Is that the best I can do?
I am barely a month into this journey and I already feel easily discouraged.  I want to make all of these changes over night.  I want them to happen quickly&#8230;not one bar of soap at a time. 
However, I am trying to make changes only as I am able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/28/is-that-the-best-i-can-do/</link>
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		<title>Help - My Soap Is Getting Messy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My bar soap is getting messy but not in the way I expected.  I need your help on behalf of the wonderful soap makers I recently met thanks to my bar soap challenge.
Soap makers, Joy at Kinderhaven Farms and Heidi at Vintage Fresh Soaps and Sundries, both mentioned an act that is going before Congress called [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/26/help-my-soap-is-getting-messy/</link>
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		<title>Did Your Grandma Save Tin Foil?</title>
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Sometimes I will post a short entry like this one because I would like to have a question answered.  I am in the process of asking my grandparents these very same questions, but I like to compare and contrast their answers with the stories you share.  So it is time for another What Would Grandma Do? question.
My grandparents saved everything out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/24/did-your-grandma-wash-tin-foil/</link>
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		<title>Contentment Can Be Found In Looking Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am learning there are certain activities that make me feel more content and activities that make me feel discontent.  Rushing makes me feel discontent.  Shopping often makes me feel discontent.  Exposure to too much advertising makes me feel discontent.  Unrealistic expectations also make me feel discontent.
However, I tend to experience contentment when I slow down, when I strive to accomplish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/23/contentment-is-looking-back/</link>
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		<title>Give Up Your Soap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Since the soap bars would get too little to use, like they do now, mother did not discard them, but melted them all together and ended up with the ugliest, misshapen “bar” of soap anyone ever saw.&#8221;  A comment from Barbara to How Would Grandma Bathe.
It looks like I am going to give up soap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/21/give-up-your-soap/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday to Me!</title>
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Yes, today is my birthday. Two of my dearest friends each brought me a bouquet of flowers from the local Farmer&#8217;s Market. I just had to share them because they are so beautiful. Also, how do you like my new site? My friend Jeff has been working hard on the design as well as fielding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/18/happy-birthday-to-me/</link>
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		<title>A Few Personal Limits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is this guy who calls himself No Impact Man.  He lives in New York City and he recently spent one year, along with his wife and daughter, living a carbon neutral lifestyle.  His story is inspiring and his site has been rated one of the top 10 &#8220;green&#8221; sites by Time magazine.  You will hear about him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/17/a-few-personal-limits/</link>
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		<title>5 Important Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have developed the following 5 questions to help me determine which practices from my grandparents&#8217; generation I will keep or toss out.  These questions will form the basis of each Grandma Challenge.
1.  How did my grandparents do it?
2.  How do we do it now?
3.  Which way seems most ideal as I try to live a more sustainable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/16/5-important-questions/</link>
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		<title>Who Is Grandma?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came up with the title &#8220;My Grandma Was Green&#8221; because it seemed catchier than &#8220;My Grandparents Were Green.&#8221;  Who is Grandma?  &#8220;Grandma&#8221; represents each of my grandparents as well as others of their generation.  It also represents your grandparents as you share your stories.
Both sets of my grandparents were born around 1930 covering the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/15/who-is-grandma/</link>
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		<title>Housekeeping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is what my Grandma Swinford did to wash clothes. First you buy a huge black pot, the kind you see in movies that witches use to make their brew, and you set it in the back yard. You put wood for a fire around it and boil a huge pot of water in which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mygrandmawasgreen.com/2008/07/14/housekeeping/</link>
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