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		<title>Come back, we miss you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been taking some time off emPower? Too much homework you say? Always wearing your stunna shades at 9pm on Sundays?
COME BACK! WE MISS YOU.
Take an hour out of your busy lives and come catch up! Earth Day is coming up (April 22nd!), and emPower is looking for some bright, motivated students to help us make [...]


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		<title>BTB in the Alumni Magazine</title>
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If students once found a cause in banning the bomb, this generation is out to ban the bottle. The disposable plastic water bottle, that is.

-Lawrence Goodman, Brown Alumni Magazine
Shoot, son: BTB just got a full page spread in the Brown Alumni Magazine. This might be the one time that the BAM won&#8217;t be relegated to [...]


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		<link>http://www.empowerbrown.org/blog/2010/01/14/btb-in-the-alumni-magazine/</link>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Seriously Still Be Buying Bottled Water</title>
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		<link>http://www.empowerbrown.org/blog/2009/12/14/you-cant-seriously-still-be-buying-bottled-water/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Absorption of Green Roofs: Numbers Crunched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More good news from the front lines, some solid estimates of capabilities of green roofs to sequester carbon! I can almost see the CCURB proposals&#8230; or maybe the 2010 Mayor&#8217;s Green Summer Job Corps.
From Miller-McCune.com: 
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at Michigan State University have calculated the carbon sequestration benefits extensive green roofs can provide. [...]


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		<title>Tuvalu shows mettle at Copenhagen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Jervey is covering this story here and here.
Tuvalu, speaking for all of AOSIS (the Alliance of Small Island States, needs a legally-binding deal, and they want China, India, and other emerging economies to be factored into it. They&#8217;ve seen the science, run the numbers, and know that a world without limits on China&#8217;s and [...]


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		<link>http://www.empowerbrown.org/blog/2009/12/13/tuvalu-shows-mettle-at-copenhagen/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations, Providence!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Jef Nickerson @ Greater City: Providence for this announcement:
A report by the Environmental Working Group ranks Providence’s municipal water as second best (of metropolitan areas over 250,000 people) in the country. EWG compiled information from water utility tests going back to 2004 in 48,000 municipalities in 45 states. Arlington, Texas beat us out [...]


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		<title>Events from the Environmental Council of Rhode Island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ECRI Calendar 12/7/09

Public Info Sessions on Pawtucket&#8217;s Proposed WasteZero System to Reduce Trash and Increase Recycling
Tue, Dec 8 at 7:00 PM at Potter Elementary School, 973 Newport Avenue
Tue, Dec 15 at 7:00 PM at Varieur Elementary School, 486 Pleasant Street
Wed, Dec 16 at 7:00 PM at Winters Elementary School, 481 Broadway
Thur, Dec 17 at 7:00 PM [...]


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		<link>http://www.empowerbrown.org/blog/2009/12/08/events-from-the-environmental-council-ri/</link>
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		<title>A Call for Green Jobs, Clean Energy, and Strong Emissions Cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy to see this post @ RIFuture! Thanks to Michael Roles.
 
Join us as Senator Whitehouse hears our VOICES
The Rhode Island Student Climate Coalition urges you to join concerned citizens from all over Rhode Island to thank Senator Whitehouse for his bold and important stances on climate change.  Senator Whitehouse continues to support strong legislation [...]


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		<link>http://www.empowerbrown.org/blog/2009/12/08/a-call-for-green-jobs-clean-energy-and-strong-emissions-cuts/</link>
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		<title>Aw, Shucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Wildlife Federation just released a report on &#8220;Generation E,&#8221; laying out 35 ways in which students are &#8220;cutting carbon emissions, saving resources and equipping the coming generation for a green energy economy.&#8221;
The CCURB Project HeatSave was highlighted, and our own dashing Adam Yarnell &#8216;10 is holding down page 22.
Plenty of the work done [...]


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		<title>Climate + Energy Brown Bag, 11/17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the Climate + Energy talk will be hosting two professors, one speaking on issues in financing climate change solutions and the other on building your own renewable energy sources. Come find out about the latest on what other researchers are doing in our exciting and dynamic field of Climate + Energy.
We welcome:
1) Timmons [...]


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		<link>http://www.empowerbrown.org/blog/2009/11/16/climate-energy-brown-bag-1117/</link>
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