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		<title>Captain Moore Paints a Bleak Picture for David Letterman.  Now What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you guys see Captain Charles Moore on the David Letterman show Monday night? He laid it all out &#8212; the complete picture of what our plastic waste is doing to the ocean and ultimately the food we eat and the climate we depend on &#8212; in his usual direct style. I&#8217;m amazed that Letterman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kleenex, Neti Pots, Twitter, and Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I had another nasty cold this weekend. Sore throat. Moving to stuffed up head. And on to coughing, headache, body aches, and the nose from Hell. Honestly, I was blowing my nose at least once a minute. During the worst part, several times a minute. Literally. And contrary to what that word has become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/03/kleenex-neti-pots-twitter-and-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Carnival Of The Green #217</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little weekend reading for you.  Welcome to the 217th edition of the weekly Carnival of the Green, a collection of environmentally-focused blog posts which moves from one blog to the next each week and is managed by  Tree Hugger.
Last week, the Carnival of the Green was hosted by Ethical Superstore.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/03/carnival-of-the-green-217/</link>
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		<title>Announcing the Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out! Carnival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of Annie Leonard&#8217;s Story of Stuff video and book and her emphasis on simplifying our lives, I&#8217;m happy to be participating in a new community blog carnival called &#8220;Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out!&#8220;  (If you haven&#8217;t yet read my post from yesterday, please check out my interview with Annie Leonard and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/03/announcing-the-spring-cleaning-get-the-junk-out-carnival/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Community: A Conversation with Annie Leonard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know your neighbors? Annie Leonard, creator of the viral video The Story of Stuff thinks you should. In fact, she thinks it&#8217;s the number one thing we can do to take back our power as citizens and solve our environmental problems.  In this interview, she explains why, and insists that all of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/03/its-about-community-a-conversation-with-annie-leonard/</link>
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		<title>Of Red Carpets, Pop Culture, and Plastic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are environmentalists who eschew pop culture for its crassness, its commercialism, its emphasis on celebrity over authenticity.  I am not one of those environmentalists.  Sure, our society&#8217;s addiction to overconsumption saddens me.  But that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t get excited by Lady Gaga or the Oscars red carpet gowns.
Last night was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/03/1801/</link>
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		<title>Chemical Antimony Found In Plastic Bottles of Fruit Juice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us know and are concerned about avoiding the &#8220;bad&#8221; plastics.  Especially when it comes to our food.  Polycarbonate, PVC, Polystyrene.   But until recently, many people have considered PET, Polyethylene Terephthalate (#1 plastic, the type of plastic that water and juice bottles are made from) to be safe.  And while there have been studies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/03/chemical-antimony-found-in-plastic-bottles-of-fruit-juice/</link>
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		<title>Are Compostable Utensils Really Compostable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Their names range from the catchy (TaterWare, WheatWare, SpudWare) to the merely descriptive (Compostable utensils, PLA utensils, etc.)  And while they are touted as an alternative to petroleum-based plastics, very few of them are actually compostable in a real world situation.
TaterWare
Take, for example, TaterWare, made from potato starch, of course.  Many of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/03/are-compostable-utensils-really-compostable/</link>
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		<title>Reducing Plastic Waste: February 2010 Collection Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6.9oz Plastic Waste [5 oz new/1.9 oz acquired prior to June 2007]

For some reason, February felt like a very, very long month.  Gray drizzly days.  And we don&#8217;t even get snow here.
Welcome to those who are discovering this blog after watching the segment on ABC7 morning news today.  Every month I collect and tally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeplasticfish.com/2010/03/reducing-plastic-waste-february-2010-collection-results/</link>
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		<title>Oh the Irony! WesFeld&#8217;s Ocean Inspired Plastic Gowns at New York Fashion Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plastic dresses inspired by the ocean? What will those crazy fashion-designing kids think up next?
Last week was Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in NY City. I know this because I watch Project Runway, the only reality show I can admit to watching without embarrassment because it&#8217;s all about talent and creativity. And in fact, last summer, [...]]]></description>
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