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The $405-billion a year retailer has worked hard since 2005 to save energy, reduce waste and sell more sustainable products.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-11T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4744">      <title>University of Wisconsin Team Develops High-Yielding Chemical Hydrolysis Process to Release Sugars from Biomass for Cellulosic Fuels and Chemicals</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4744</link>      <description><![CDATA[A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a chemical process for the hydrolysis of biomass into sugars for subsequent processing into fuels and chemicals that delivers sugar yields approaching those of enzymatic hydrolysis. In an open-access paper published in the 9 March issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they report that the process leads to a nearly 90% yield of glucose from cellulose and 70-80% yield of sugars from untreated corn stover.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-11T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4747">      <title>Waitress inspired to green-up businesses</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4747</link>      <description><![CDATA[Shaunna Sutcliffe&apos;s environmental awareness dates back to her earliest years on the planet.

When she was a little girl, Sutcliffe&apos;s father proposed she pay one penny each time she opened the kitchen refrigerator and increased electricity usage.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-11T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4741">      <title>German Fishing Boat Flies Giant Kite To Save Fuel</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4741</link>      <description><![CDATA[Germany&apos;s largest fishing vessel will leave the Netherlands this week, towed by a giant kite harnessing trade winds for South America that will help cut its fuel consumption by up to a third.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-10T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4743">      <title>Green Chemistry Breakthrough in Plastics Recycling</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4743</link>      <description><![CDATA[Scientists at IBM and Stanford University said Tuesday that they have developed a new method of making plastics that will permit more than one recycling cycle.

While plastics are recyclable today, the resulting materials have been limited to second generation reuse only. This means things made from recycled plastic bottles are disposed in landfills.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-10T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4742">      <title>Washington is first to tackle toxic copper in brakes</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4742</link>      <description><![CDATA[Washington state has done it again, being the first state in the country to take a legal stand against a toxic chemical.

The Legislature this week voted to phase out cooper in brake pads, provided there are reasonable alternatives and that research continues to suggest that brake pads are contributing significant amounts of toxic copper. The bill is Senate Bill 6557.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-10T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4737">      <title>Eco-Dentists Aim to Clean and Green</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4737</link>      <description><![CDATA[With 500 members in 42 states and 11 countries, the Eco-Dentistry Association has launched a certification program for green dental practices and named its two inaugural recipients.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-09T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4739">      <title>Greenhouse Gas Management for Medium-Duty Truck Fleets</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4739</link>      <description><![CDATA[This white paper from Environmental Defense Fund and fleet management company PHH Arval lays out strategies for reducing emissions from medium-duty trucks, which are responsible for more than 80 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-09T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4740">      <title>Home Depot stores increase energy efficiency</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4740</link>      <description><![CDATA[Home improvement giant The Home Depot recently announced that energy efficiency measures taken at U.S. stores have led to a reduction of energy use by 2.6 billion kWh since 2004. The company also reaffirmed its commitment to reducing its energy use by 20 percent per square foot in the next five years. If you&apos;ve never been to one of their stores, they are massive shells filled with a variety of home improvement products. I can&apos;t even begin to imagine how much energy these stores use so I applaud The Home Depot for working to improve energy efficiency across the board.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-09T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4738">      <title>Smokestash Industry: ARPA-E Seeks Breakthroughs in Carbon Capture Technology</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4738</link>      <description><![CDATA[Every second, our bodies capture carbon dioxide in our tissues, transport it via the blood, and dump it in the lungs from where it is exhaled. This unconscious process is yet another way humans contribute to the accumulation of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere--albeit in a miniscule volume compared with burning fossil fuels. The key to this metabolic process is an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase and it&apos;s efficiency at capturing and releasing CO2 is what human engineers want to mimic at the power plant scale.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-09T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4735">      <title>100% Bio-Plastic Water Bottles Trickle Into Marketplace</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4735</link>      <description><![CDATA[A new trend emerging in the bottled water market is bio-plastic bottles made 100 percent from plants, as opposed to the mixed composition bottles that came out in recent years. The latest eco-bottles come from Green Planet Bottling and Keystone Water Company.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4734">      <title>BP, Shell Lead Oil/Gas Sustainability Ranking</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4734</link>      <description><![CDATA[In a ranking of environmental, sustainability and social impacts from major oil and gas companies, BP comes out on top, with a 59 percent Tomorrow&apos;s Value score, according to the Tomorrow&apos;s Value ranking.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4736">      <title>Energy efficient scoreboard takes the field</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4736</link>      <description><![CDATA[Safeco Field&apos;s 10-year-old scoreboard in left field was comprised of incandescent bulbs, required a cooling system that was in operation 24-hours a day, and used 1.2 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity annually. In February, Safeco Field began deconstructingit to replace it with a more energy efficient scoreboard.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4732">      <title>Learning from Nature: Scientists Break Down Carbon Dioxide Into Carbon Monoxide Using Visible Light</title>      <link>http://www.pprc.org/news/NewsItem.cfm?ID=4732</link>      <description><![CDATA[A recent discovery in understanding how to chemically break down the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into a useful form opens the doors for scientists to wonder what organism is out there -- or could be created -- to accomplish the task.]]></description>     <dc:date>2010-03-08T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item></rdf:RDF>