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		<title>Day 7: The Eco-Sabbath. So&#8230; how did I do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the final day of the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Challenge, but I&#8217;m more fired up than ever. I find that I&#8217;m not looking at it as an experiment that I&#8217;ve now completed, I&#8217;m looking at it as a launch into my new reduced-carbon lifestyle. I&#8217;ve already done reduced-fat, reduced-carbohydrate, reduced-stress and I reduced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1403</link>
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		<title>Day 6: Veterans, ecology and contraband candy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Day 6 of the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Challenge and, I admit, the day I was most looking forward to. This is the day that focused on giving back, paying forward, getting involved, doing more. And I love my volunteer work. Love it. Over the years it has been one of the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1374</link>
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		<title>Day 6: A bottle in my toilet, a bucket in the shower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Day 6 of the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Challege, and I&#8217;m sure it would have been quite entertaining to see me heading for the bathroom early in the morning with a bucket in one hand and a big bottle of water in the other. One of those &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to know&#8221; moments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1369</link>
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		<title>Day 5: Letting the electric slide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, a transformer went out on a power line down the street, leaving the entire neighborhood without electricity for nearly the whole day. At first I was rather comically lost, wandering about the house, absently flipping on light switches and then saying things like, &#8220;Oh well. Might as well vacuum.&#8221; But as the day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1362</link>
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		<title>Day 4: Fooooooooooooood!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve completed Day 4 of the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Challenge, which focused on healthy eating to help lesson your &#8221;foodprint.&#8221; This one was a bit tricky. Not because I don&#8217;t eat healthy &#8211; a 50-pound weight loss several years ago taught me that. And not because I don&#8217;t love food because ha-ha, where do you think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1355</link>
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		<title>Day 3: Walking, or sometimes sprinting, to the train</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 3 of the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Challenge is behind me, and this one, I have to say, was easy for me. Tuesday&#8217;s challege focused on transportation and brainstorming ways to change our modes of transportation to have the least impact possible. I actually started driving much less when I was downsized from my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1342</link>
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		<title>Day 2: iced coffee, hankies, doing the Happy Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve completed Day 2 of the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Experiment and I have to tell you&#8230; Ms. &#8220;I Already Live Uber Green&#8221; is flat-out amazed how much trash I generate without even thinking about it. Monday&#8217;s challenge was to discover how wasting less improves our lives. We were urged to consider all trash bins off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1337</link>
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		<title>Day 1 complete: no shopping, bag &#8216;o trash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve completed Day 1 of the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Challenge. I actually did better than I expected. The first thing I did was find a reusable bag to start collecting my trash from the day. I never hated coffee grounds until today, by the way. We&#8217;re to analyze the trash later, so more on that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1326</link>
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		<title>Ready? Set? Reduce that carbon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first told Guy that I was taking part in the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Experiment, he got a look on his face that plainly showed he was thinking of my peace rallys in downtown Newark and the cleanse I tried involving granulated lecithin and twelve pounds of beets. What can I say? I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1320</link>
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		<title>Hey you guuuuuuuyyyys!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I just signed up for the Sierra Club&#8217;s No Impact Experiment. It starts this Sunday and is a one-week experiment in living with a lower carbon footprint. I&#8217;ll be posting updates every day, to let you know how it&#8217;s going. (Oh, and if you didn&#8217;t hear Rita Moreno&#8217;s voice when you read the headline [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christythewriter.com/?p=1313</link>
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