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The answer appears to be a qualified &quot;yes.&quot;]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-07-02T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12364">      <title>Nokia, Samsung Lead Latest Greenpeace Green Electronics Survey</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12364</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: Greener Computing, 7/01/09.Greenpeace International today released the 12th edition of its quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics scorecard, ranking the 17 manufacturers on their achievement of environmental goals.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-07-02T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12361">      <title>AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12361</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: AASHE, 6/25/09.The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) has announced the release of AASHE Digest 2008, which documents the continued rapid growth of campus sustainability in the U.S. and Canada.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-07-01T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12360">      <title>DOI Designates Solar Energy Zones</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12360</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: SustainableBusiness.com, 6/30/09.The U.S. Interior Department Monday designated about 670,000 acres of land on Monday to be &quot;fast-tracked&quot; as potential areas for solar energy production.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-07-01T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12359">      <title>E-Waste: When Landfills Are Not an Option</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12359</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: Greener Computing, 7/1/09.Headlines abound with stories of branded technology being fished out of rivers and landfills in developing nations leaking toxic metals into the water supply. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates roughly 400,000 tons of e-waste goes to recyclers every year, and that up to 80 percent of the materials sorted for recycling end up in operations in China, India, Southeast Asia and West Africa where it is disassembled and burned or dumped.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-07-01T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12358">      <title>President Obama Approves the Billion-Dollar &amp;quot;Cash for Clunkers&amp;quot; Act</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12358</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: EERE Network News.President Barack Obama signed into law last week a measure that directs $1 billion toward rebates for U.S. residents who trade in their cars or trucks for new, more fuel-efficient vehicles.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-07-01T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12362">      <title>Yahoo! Abandons Carbon Offsets in Favor of Efficiency</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12362</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: Greener Computing, 6/30/09.Yahoo! today said it will no longer purchase carbon offsets for its operations, focusing its climate strategy on reducing the energy used by its data centers.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-07-01T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12354">      <title>Dow and Algenol Partner for Algae-Based CO2-to-Ethanol Pilot Project</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12354</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: GreenBiz, 6/30/09.The Dow Chemical Co. will partner with a Florida-based company to turn carbon dioxide -- the most prevalent greenhouse gas -- into ethanol. Dow and Naples-based Algenol Biofuels Inc. could produce 100,000 gallons of ethanol per year for use in making plastics. The algae-based biorefinery will be built on 24 acres at Dow&apos;s site in Freeport, Texas, where it will use carbon dioxide produced at a nearby Dow manufacturing facility.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-06-30T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12357">      <title>House Narrowly Passes Climate Bill - Reaction Roundup</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12357</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: Environmental Leader 6/28/09.The House narrowly passed landmark climate change legislation (H.R. 2454) with a 219-212 vote, delivering a major victory for President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The cap-and-trade bill, called the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which mandates reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and sets a national standard for renewable electricity, now heads to the Senate, where its prospects are uncertain.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-06-30T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12356">      <title>House Passes Climate Bill</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12356</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: SustainbleBusiness.com, 6/29/09.The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the Waxman-Markey climate change and energy bill by a narrow margin of 219-212.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-06-30T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item>   <item rdf:about="http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12355">      <title>Obama Sets New Lighting Efficiency Standards</title>      <link>http://www.p2ric.org/EnvNews/NewsItem.cfm?ID=12355</link>      <description><![CDATA[Source: .President Barack Obama&apos;s administration on Monday laid out new efficiency standards for lighting used in homes and businesses, hastening measures to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an official said.]]></description>     <dc:date>2009-06-30T12:00:00-05:00</dc:date>   </item></rdf:RDF>