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	<title>Gaiam Blog &#187; Leslie Garrett</title>
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	<description>Experiences in living green, healthy and happy</description>
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		<title>3 Tips for an Eco Family Vacation</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/3-tips-for-an-eco-family-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eco Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enrich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travel should enrich not only you and your family but the people and places you travel to. With an incredible planet to explore, and an environmental cost to exploring it, we’ve got to make every trip count.]]></description>
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		<title>Making Everyday Moments Zen Moments</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/making-everyday-moments-zen-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[here and now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simplicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["I’ve learned that in order to be my best, I need to seek out those Zen moments," blogs Leslie Garrett. "Those all-too-fleeting times in my busy day when I get filled from within. When all else falls away and there’s only me. In the moment."]]></description>
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		<title>Put Mother Nature to Work Feeding Your Family</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/put-mother-nature-to-work-feeding-your-family/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/put-mother-nature-to-work-feeding-your-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[natural food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic foods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic garden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My grandfather, not one given to understatement, frequently declared many modern-day foods to be “poison” and dismissed them with a wave of his hand. Among the offenders? Margarine (“anything that doesn’t freeze at freezing temperatures isn’t right…”). Pam cooking spray (“work of the devil!”). Whipped cream in an aerosol (“Unnatural!”).
I can only imagine his response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should You Use Fruit and Veggie Wash?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/should-you-use-fruit-and-veggie-wash/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/should-you-use-fruit-and-veggie-wash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[do it yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homemade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make your own]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticide-free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[produce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetables]]></category>

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It’s not that my mind isn’t teeming with important thoughts. It is. I read literature. I watch documentaries. I bandy about intellectual ideas with my Ph.D.-waving friends.
But that doesn’t seem to stop my mind from obsessing about the little things.
For example, just this morning I was picking up a few things at the market. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Be Me</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/learning-to-be-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother-daughter relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pleasing others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-realization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Virtuous Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leslie Garrett shares how a life-altering event taught her to stop seeking to please and finally just be herself.]]></description>
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		<title>6 Simple Pearls of Wisdom to Learn from a Yoga Instructor</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/six-simple-pieces-of-wisdom-to-learn-from-a-yoga-instructor/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/six-simple-pieces-of-wisdom-to-learn-from-a-yoga-instructor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stillness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category>

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Karen, my yoga instructor, doesn’t claim to offer answers. Actually, she’s more of an “ask a question” type of instructor, consistently encouraging each of us to look within for wisdom.
And though it took me close to a decade (I’m a slow learner), I finally realized that I&#8217;ve carried wisdom within all along. Karen simply stirred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Out of the Closet: Confessions of a Fashion Junkie</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/coming-out-of-the-closet-confessions-of-a-fashion-junkie/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/coming-out-of-the-closet-confessions-of-a-fashion-junkie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bamboo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clothes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[clothing dyes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[textiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wardrobe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leslie Garrett is a fashion junkie — but she knows how tough the clothing industry can be on the environment. Find out how she greened her wardrobe while still embracing style. ]]></description>
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		<title>Remember When the Things We Bought Lasted?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/pay-as-you-play/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/pay-as-you-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conscious consumer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[consuming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obsolete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[responsible consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtuous consumer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What we buy these days often quickly breaks or becomes obsolete. In this "built-to-break" culture, Leslie Garrett pines for the times when we bought items that actually lasted.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Fight Swine Flu with Food? Why Old Health Secrets Are New Again</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/fight-swine-flu-with-food-why-old-health-secrets-are-new-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/fight-swine-flu-with-food-why-old-health-secrets-are-new-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative therapies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient remedies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you fight off swine flu? Looking to remedies of the past may be the answer. ]]></description>
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		<title>What Climate Change Taught Me: Live in the Present</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/what-climate-change-taught-me-live-in-the-present/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/what-climate-change-taught-me-live-in-the-present/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[350 campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill McKibben]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global-warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[live in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[live in the present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How did blogger Leslie Garrett learn to live in the moment? She knows too much about the threat of climate change. "With such a fragile future, today becomes so much more precious," she says. See how she learned to really appreciate the "now." ]]></description>
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