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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill McKibben]]></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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		<title>What the Price Tag Doesn’t Tell You: How to Be a Conscious Consumer</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/what-the-price-tag-doesn%e2%80%99t-tell-you-how-to-be-a-conscious-consumer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conscious consumer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fair-trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[locally-made]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mammoth Hot Springs General Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[responsible consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtuous consumer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A price tag shows the cost in dollars — but it doesn’t show the cost to the planet or to the people who made it. Discover the value of buying fair trade, organic, reusable and locally-made products — and how the greener choices may be some of your best purchases.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Stillness — From One Who&#8217;s Rarely Still</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/thoughts-on-stillness-%e2%80%94-from-one-whos-rarely-still/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/thoughts-on-stillness-%e2%80%94-from-one-whos-rarely-still/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calm the mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-friendly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enjoy the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to slow down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living in the present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quiet time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relaxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stillness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is your mind always racing, even when you try to slow down? Leslie Garrett — who was always on-the-go and could never calm her mind — found stillness from an ordinary but surprising place: an everyday chore. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Rude Awakening: Not All Thank-You Gifts Create Clutter</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/a-rude-awakening-not-all-thank-you-gifts-create-clutter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/a-rude-awakening-not-all-thank-you-gifts-create-clutter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appreciation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a secret cupboard where you keep all those thank-you gifts (a.k.a. “stuff”) friends have given you over the years? Here's how to show gratitude more thoughtfully while eliminating clutter with local, eco-friendly gifts. ]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise Like You Play</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/exercise-like-you-play/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/exercise-like-you-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise like a kid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fitness clubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to enjoy exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playground]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[riding bikes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has exercise become another less-than-appealing item on your to-do list? Learn how to do the kind of exercise that makes you feel young again, awakens an innocence and stirs your soul.]]></description>
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		<title>Balloons: Party or Pollutant?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/balloons-party-or-pollutant/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/balloons-party-or-pollutant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balloons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beach litter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eco-friendly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harm to wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[litter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine creatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[save the environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leslie Garrett isn't a party pooper — she just doesn't like balloons. See how balloons pollute the shores and pose a serious harm to ocean wildlife. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Over Chatter: Diary of My 4 Tries at Meditation</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/mind-over-chatter-diary-of-my-4-tries-at-meditation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/mind-over-chatter-diary-of-my-4-tries-at-meditation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diary of a meditation novice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to meditate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to quiet your mind while meditating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation for beginners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here's how I went from just trying to sit still, to nearly giving up on meditation, to getting the point.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blades of Glory: Fake Grass Is Eco?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/blades-of-glory-fake-grass-is-eco/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/blades-of-glory-fake-grass-is-eco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artificial turf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astroturf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fake grass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landscaping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polyethylene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synthetic grass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water conservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I always thought that a simple equation for living green was thus: Fake = bad; real = good. For example, fake food (Twinkies), bad; real food (apples), good. Simple, right? Turns out … not so much.
Friends from Northern California recently announced that they were installing fake grass at their new home. I was aghast. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ladybug Wars: Confessions of an Obsessed Organic Gardener</title>
		<link>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/the-ladybug-wars-confessions-of-an-obsessed-organic-gardener/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gaiam.com/blog/the-ladybug-wars-confessions-of-an-obsessed-organic-gardener/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Garrett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aphids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ladybugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetable garden]]></category>

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There comes a time in any mother&#8217;s trajectory when she can clearly look back and see when she lost her mind. My moment of insanity occurred last week. My six-year-old and I were enjoying a lovely morning outside — me poking around in my garden while she, bug bucket in hand, sought out toads or [...]]]></description>
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