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	<title>The Golden Spiral</title>
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	<description>musings from a girl trying to change the world</description>
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		<title>Won&#8217;t You Be My Neighbor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very recently, someone in my life got a new used car.  An older car.  It doesn’t have any bells and whistles; there is no A/C, it has hand-cranked windows, it is loud, it bounces around in every bump in the road and I love it.  You should know that he got the car because his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2010/07/29/wont-you-be-my-neighbor/</link>
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		<title>One Possible Answer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is there a disconnect to the meat people eat? For the last two years, I have gradually given up meat, fish, and dairy and for the last few months have transitioned to a full vegan diet.  I had chosen this path initially because as an environmentalist, I felt it was the best thing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2010/07/26/one-possible-answer/</link>
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		<title>Belated Happy New Year!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all&#8230; I know I haven’t written anything here in a very long time.  I am sorry for my absence. At some point in the last few months, I got uninspired.  Everyday I would search for articles that were worth re-printing, linking to, and discussing.  At some point, all the stories became the same and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2010/01/15/belated-happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>No Animal Too Small</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyday, I go for a morning walk. I always cross over this one particular bridge. Actually, I cross over this bridge a lot, independent of my walk. This bridge is the connection from my neighborhood over to Ventura Blvd. The story, however, starts on my morning walk. Monday Oct 5th, to be exact. Just to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2009/10/12/no-animal-too-small/</link>
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		<title>Freedom to be Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Matt DeNoto How do we change people’s behaviors? In Seattle, a ballot measure was recently defeated to impose a 20-cent fee on paper and plastic bags from grocery stores. People from Seattle are generally considered to be fairly progressive, environmentally-minded folk. More people already use reusable shopping bags in Seattle than most other places [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2009/08/25/freedom-to-be-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Prism of Patriotism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Matt DeNoto It’s good that people love the country in which they live. In America, nationalism has always been fundamental. And for good reason. This country was founded on strong democratic principles, revolutionary for their time. Even in its infancy, there was something unquestionable about people in America believing that they lived in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2009/08/18/prism-of-patriotism/</link>
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		<title>Green When You&#8217;ve Gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Matt DeNoto In my first article on this site, I wrote about the confusion landfills have always caused in me. Today I’d like to write about another source of confusion – graveyards. Graveyards have always seemed to me like an incredible waste of space. Acres of land kept practically barren in an eternal tribute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2009/08/11/green-when-youve-gone/</link>
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		<title>Closed System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Matt DeNoto Up until about a week ago, my kitchen was infested with fruit flies. They pop up every summer, seemingly from out of nowhere, makes annoyances of themselves and, eventually, go away. Usually I try not to pay them any mind. I let them go about their business and they let me go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2009/08/04/closed-system/</link>
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		<title>Earth Gay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Matt DeNoto That what Gerod Rody’s gay/green organization, OUT for Sustainability, named its Earth Day events, when it built a garden and did some habitat restoration in Seattle, where the organization is located. Gerod Rody was looking for a way to combine what he sees as the two defining facets of his life; trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2009/07/29/earth-gay/</link>
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		<title>Getting to the Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forty years ago yesterday, two men set foot on the moon. It was the culmination of a long fought battle between the United States and Russia, answering the question “who would get there first?” I have spent parts of the day listening to the radio commemorating the historic event.  I will be the first to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegoldenspiral.org/2009/07/21/getting-to-the-moon/</link>
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