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		<title>Bob Lyon Installs Cool Residential Small Wind Turbine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: They&#8217;ve got it going on!
LISA BULE, St. Petersberg Times, November 7, 2009
This is Bob Lyon&#8217;s version of a midlife crisis sports car.
&#8220;This is the craziest thing I&#8217;ve done in my life,&#8221; the 47-year-old commercial painter joked Friday after a crane lowered a 19-foot, 1-ton wind turbine onto a pole behind his waterfront vacation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com&blog=1791290&post=5874&subd=mendocoastcurrent&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Four Decades, Kent State National Guardsman Speaks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LYDIA COUTRE, KentNewsNet, November 3, 2009
Last night, Ron Snyder became the first Kent State National Guardsman to speak in a public forum at Kent State University about what happened on May 4, 1970.
Snyder, along with four other panelists, discussed the May 4th shooting at the Kent State University Kiva organized by the May 4th Task [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com&blog=1791290&post=5862&subd=mendocoastcurrent&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Killing the World&#8217;s Oceans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAM WATERSON, Special to CNN, November 2, 2009
CNN Editor&#8217;s Note: Sam Waterston is an award-winning stage, film and television actor who is best known for his long-running role as prosecutor Jack McCoy on &#8220;Law &#38; Order.&#8221; He is a member of the board of directors of Oceana, a nonprofit organization that seeks to protect the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com&blog=1791290&post=5850&subd=mendocoastcurrent&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aquamarine&#8217;s Wave Energy Oyster Takes Big Step Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MendoCoastCurrent, October 30, 2009
Just last week in Scotland the Oyster from Aquamarine Power passed a crucial test and is no longer in locked-down position on the seabed. Now the Oyster moves back and forth in the ocean waves, pumping high-pressure water to its onshore hydro-electric turbine as it readies for full-commissioning.
The Oyster captures energy found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com&blog=1791290&post=5843&subd=mendocoastcurrent&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whale Songs Drowned Out by Human Noise Pollution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endangered species&#8217; communication critical to survival
ARIEL DAVID, Seattle Post Intelligence, December 8, 2008

The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world&#8217;s oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said Wednesday.
That sound pollution &#8212; everything from increasing commercial shipping and seismic surveys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com&blog=1791290&post=5835&subd=mendocoastcurrent&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Funding $3.4 Billion for U.S. Smart Grid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globe.Net, October 27, 2009
President Barack Obama has announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will create tens of thousands of jobs, save energy and allow consumers to cut their electric bills.
Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com&blog=1791290&post=5829&subd=mendocoastcurrent&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Noise Pollution Forcing Blue Whales to Cope &amp; Compete</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MendoCoastCurrent, October 27, 2009
Editor&#8217;s Note: Over the past few weeks there have been numerous Blue Whales showing up dead on the coast of California and a cause of the recent Blue Whale washing up on the Mendocino coast has been the topic of great discussion and mystery here. Actual cause of death has been identified [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com&blog=1791290&post=5801&subd=mendocoastcurrent&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BioWAVE Considered for San Francisco Wave Energy Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EMILY AVILES, Ode Magazine, October 26, 2009
Lately, the shores of San Francisco, California have been attracting more than wet-suit clad surfers and their boards.
A site five miles off the city’s western beach is being considered for a new Oceanside Wave Energy project.
Australian energy company BioPower Systems is collaborating with the City of San Francisco to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com&blog=1791290&post=5791&subd=mendocoastcurrent&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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