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		<title>Sustainable Soap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Used soap bars create millions of pounds of waste in landfills each year. When you add to this pile by discarding your own leftover soap slivers, you’re not only increasing the amount of waste and pollution in the world, you’re &#8230; <a href="http://gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/sustainable-soap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8589469&amp;post=706&amp;subd=gaptrailsbn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Networking with Trail Business Owners: Recapping This Year’s GAP SBN Networking Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year’s GAP SBN networking event, held this past Tuesday, November 8 at the Levi Deal Mansion Bed &#38; Breakfast in Meyersdale, provided a friendly and supportive forum for sustainability-minded business owners to discuss the current progress, ongoing challenges, and &#8230; <a href="http://gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/networking-with-trail-business-owners-recapping-this-years-gap-sbn-networking-event/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8589469&amp;post=703&amp;subd=gaptrailsbn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Cleaning 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Improving Your Paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Understanding Earthships</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Easy (and Free) Ways to Go Green and Save Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing things that are good for the environment does not have to mean shelling out a lot of your hard-earned money. In fact, you can save a lot of your money by helping the environment—and you won’t even need to &#8230; <a href="http://gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/easy-and-free-ways-to-go-green-and-save-green/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8589469&amp;post=689&amp;subd=gaptrailsbn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to&#8230;&#8230;.Compost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to…….Compost As a business (whether retail, restaurant, or lodging, etc) you may think that the only way to dispose of  your waste is through trash collection and recycling.  Start today and look around your business (personal home too) and &#8230; <a href="http://gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/how-to-compost/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8589469&amp;post=687&amp;subd=gaptrailsbn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two New Members!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Allegheny Passage Sustainable Business Network welcomes its two newest members, ArtWorks Connellsville and El Canelo Mexican Restaurant, both prominent Connellsville businesses. ArtWorks Connellsville sells a wide variety of regional artwork including jewelry, handmade soap, watercolor paintings, photography, handmade &#8230; <a href="http://gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/two-new-members/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8589469&amp;post=681&amp;subd=gaptrailsbn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make sure you have a roof over your head &#8211; and double check that it’s green!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To keep your business and home safe, you must put a roof over your head, but what about a green roof.  Over the last few years, green roofs and now green walls have been a trend in helping improve the &#8230; <a href="http://gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/make-sure-you-have-a-roof-over-your-head-and-double-check-that-it%e2%80%99s-green/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8589469&amp;post=671&amp;subd=gaptrailsbn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rainwater 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rainwater 101 In the hot summer months, learn how to harvest the rainwater we are lucky to receive.  This will not only save you money, but will help to reduce water pollution in bodies of water and will aid in &#8230; <a href="http://gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/rainwater-101/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaptrailsbn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8589469&amp;post=669&amp;subd=gaptrailsbn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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