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		<title>Spaceship Earth &#8211; Our Only Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first impressions astronauts get with their initial view of the Earth from orbit is just how small it really is. Below them they see the entirety of civilization, the whole of our home in a single gaze. They see just how limited it all is. We live on a rock surviving within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incandescent light bulb&#8217;s days are numbered&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mjv.com/2010/03/17/incandescent-light-bulbs-days-are-numbered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time in coming tho &#8211; this demise of the incandescent light bulb. But, it seems that it&#8217;s inevitable. So little energy is converted to light in these bulbs and so much to heat that it&#8217;s a wonder it&#8217;s still so popular. Only 2.6% of the energy put into the average 100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wave energy may become a reality</title>
		<link>http://www.mjv.com/2010/03/16/wave-energy-may-become-a-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those &#8220;Oh it&#8217;s possible and it&#8217;s neat&#8221; type things that remained pretty much at the vaporware stage, if even that. However, recent developments indicate that it just might migrate from &#8220;What if&#8221; to, &#8220;There it is.&#8221; Harvesting energy from waves has long been discussed and dreamed of. It&#8217;s not a complicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All those Surreptitious NY Beehives are now&#8230; Legal!</title>
		<link>http://www.mjv.com/2010/03/16/all-those-surreptitious-ny-beehives-are-now-legal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News - Bees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the article: &#8220;Urban beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret. The city&#8217;s health board voted Tuesday to overturn a longtime ban on beekeeping within city limits&#8230;&#8221; Read more here. This is absolutely AWESOME! The house of cards is surely going to come down. First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I want to live under the sea&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mjv.com/2010/03/13/i-want-to-live-under-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ocean]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that is a dream I have fostered since I was a young child. I grew up daydreaming about undersea life ever since I first as a six year old child watched 2000 Leagues Under the Sea -- a masterpiece of cinema of its day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhyuey4xU3Q Since then I&#8217;ve always been a fan of the sea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roasting Coffee</title>
		<link>http://www.mjv.com/2010/03/07/roasting-coffee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mjv.com/2010/03/07/roasting-coffee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpenrost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roasting Coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweet Marias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once you have roasted your own, you will have embarked on the path few leave. After getting in the driver&#8217;s seat of your coffee experience, after having control over every aspect of the coffee, after experiencing just how good coffee can be, nothing on the store shelf can remotely compare, no matter how many artificial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Honey Extractor</title>
		<link>http://www.mjv.com/2010/02/23/my-first-honey-extractor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honeybees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[honey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Up until last year, I had no need for an extractor. Top-bar hives only require a knife, a bucket and a strainer. I still have tubs of honey-comb in the freezer that I take out once and a while to chew on some for a snack. I could probably leave the comb out now &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carving a Poi Pounder</title>
		<link>http://www.mjv.com/2010/02/21/carving-a-poi-pounder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mjv.com/2010/02/21/carving-a-poi-pounder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kalo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pohaku ku'i 'ai]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poi Pounder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A poi pounder is a stone shaped somewhat like a half an hour-glass with a rounded bottom. It&#8217;s usually carved out of a gray lava with tight pores. In those days, these stones were pecked at with a hammer stone to shape it -- a process that took many many patient hours. Once the shape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very hard winter this year</title>
		<link>http://www.mjv.com/2010/02/07/very-hard-winter-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mjv.com/2010/02/07/very-hard-winter-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeV</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pit Greenhouse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My greenhouse is largely toast right now thanks to the Arctic blast that dropped temps way below normal. No other winter has affected the plants like this one &#8211; the earth-mass has performed marvelously in all the winters without extra heating. This time around, the earth-mass still performed well &#8211; I would have lost everything [...]]]></description>
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