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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; Environmental</title>
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	<description>News &#38; Commentary from the Artvoice Editorial staff</description>
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		<title>Working With What&#8217;s There</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/03/working-with-whats-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skyway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walkway Over the Hudson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like those backward downstate New Yorkers are at it again. First, there was the successful High Line that reused a defunct Manhattan rail line as a public park, and now the Walkway Over the Hudson, the newest NYS park, which opened to the public on October 3. They even got Empire State Development grant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Not A Drill</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/28/this-is-not-a-drill/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/28/this-is-not-a-drill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allegany State Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allegheny National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Hoyt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Energy Development Corp.]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The national debate about drilling in natural areas is heating up locally as the U.S. Energy Development Corporation, located at 2350 North Forest Road in Getzville, NY, proceeds with plans to develop five new wells in Allegany State Park.
Recently, NYS Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, Larry Beahan, and other concerned citizens have been turning their attention to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nestle Wins Court Case, Bottle Bill on Hold Until 2010</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/nestle-wins-court-case-bottle-bill-on-hold-until-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/nestle-wins-court-case-bottle-bill-on-hold-until-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigger Better Bottle Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bottle and Can Redemption Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor David Patterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Bottled Water Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Thomas Griesa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nestle Waters of North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYPIRG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheldon Silver]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, a court case brought by the International Bottled Water Association and Nestle Waters of North America was decided by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Griesa. The result puts New York&#8217;s recently passed Bigger Better Bottle Bill (BBBB) legislation on hold until April 1, 2010. Read Griesa&#8217;s order here.
Here&#8217;s the NYPIRG press release where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday: Green Expo</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/07/saturday-green-expo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/07/saturday-green-expo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 20:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Expo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heather Zeisz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had hoped to put something about this in today&#8217;s print edition, because it sounds pretty cool to me: This Saturday at the Main Place Mall is the first Buffalo Niagara Green Expo. The event kicks off Buffalo Green Week, which ends next weekend with the American Solar Energy Society Conference at the Convention Center.
Essentially, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moratorium: No More New-Builds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/07/moratorium-no-more-new-builds/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/07/moratorium-no-more-new-builds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilson Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=2713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was talking to a couple friends from City Hall about the Stevens family, who want to purchase a slew of city-owned lots on Wilson Street for an urban farm. The city&#8217;s economic development chief, Brian Reilly, has said he won&#8217;t approve the purchase of those lots because he hopes that someone might want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falls Mayor Gives Governor Gift of Local Tomatoes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/23/falls-mayor-gives-governor-gift-of-local-tomatoes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/23/falls-mayor-gives-governor-gift-of-local-tomatoes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly &#38; Louis Ricciuti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Niagara File]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Paterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H2 Grow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LOOW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Dsyter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=2276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, March 4, Governor David Paterson visited Niagara Falls for a &#8220;town hall meeting&#8221; at the Doris Jones Family Resource Center on Ninth Street, just around the corner from the Highland Avenue industrial corridor and down Hyde Park Boulevard from the federally designated atomic weapons employer  Titanium Alloys Manufacturing. 
As a gift, Mayor Paul Dyster gave Governor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Spring</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/10/signs-of-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/10/signs-of-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Ash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david patterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delaware Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoyt Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shakespeare Hill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=2236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All around Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park, one can see signs that the seasons are changing. Shakespeare Hill offers the following warning. (click on any image to enlarge)

Another sign cautions against a different winter pastime, no matter how tempting the big open lake may appear.

Here&#8217;s a recent sign reminding you who to thank for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Other News…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/03/in-other-news%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/03/in-other-news%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battgalia Trucking and Demolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darnell Early]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Golombek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volland Electric]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=2163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In other, unrelated-to-David-Archuleta news:

North District Councilmember Joe Golombek will open a discussion next week on whether Buffalo might benefit from a city manager form of government. In that form, a (0ne hopes) professional city manager is hired by the legislative branch, and the office of mayor becomes largely ceremonial rather than adminstrative. The notion is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Hearing on Bigger Better Bottle Bill</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/02/public-hearing-on-bigger-better-bottle-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/02/public-hearing-on-bigger-better-bottle-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Bigger Better Bottle Bill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=2137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Two years ago, Artvoice published a cover story about the Bigger Better Bottle Bill (BBBB). The measure, which has passed a couple of times in the State Assembly, only to die on the Senate floor, is back again with more momentum than ever. In essence, the bill expands the existing nickel deposit on carbonated beverages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AV Interview: Antoine Thompson</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/02/12/av-interview-antoine-thompson/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/02/12/av-interview-antoine-thompson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Conservation Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Conservation Corps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we met with State Senator Antoine Thompson, a second-term legislator who seems to have positioned himself well to direct a great deal of public investment into Western New York in the next couple years.
Thompson was co-chair of the Senate Democrats&#8217; campaign committee (the first African-American senator to hold that post), and so played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CWM Fined for Violations</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/11/14/cwm-fined-for-violations/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/11/14/cwm-fined-for-violations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[albany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical waste management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cwm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[department of environmental conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leachate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niagara county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[porter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Chemical Waste Management was fined $175,000 by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for violating its permits and the state&#8217;s hazardous waste laws. I don&#8217;t have much to say about that, except it doesn&#8217;t seem to me like too much money.
Last year, AV associate editor Buck Quigley and his band played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BNMC Open Meeting Tonight</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/11/06/bnmc-open-meeting-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/11/06/bnmc-open-meeting-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allentown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ciminelli Development Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City of Buffalo Planning Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaleida Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUNY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University at Buffalo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight at 6:30pm in the auditorium of the downtown library, everyone is invited to attend a public hearing on the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus—North End Projects. Among the projects planned are a 300,000 square foot Medical Office Building to be owned and operated by Ciminelli Development Company, Inc., which will lease medical office space to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get on the Bus</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/27/get-on-the-bus/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/27/get-on-the-bus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bidwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo NY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush Legacy Bus Tour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Julie Blust, press secretary for the Bush Legacy Tour, showed me around the bio-diesel bus that&#8217;s been traveling the country since June 24, highlighting some of the lows of George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency. The tour stopped briefly from 11am to 1pm at Elmwood and Bidwell today, en route from Ohio to eastern Pennsylvania.
Blust points out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/08/29/remember-new-orleans/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/08/29/remember-new-orleans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf Coast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gustav]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[katrina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new orleans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago today, Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf of Mexico and struck the United States coastline with an estimated force equal to a 20-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.
Follow the link for a timeline of events surrounding the greatest natural and governmental disaster of our age, courtesy of blogofneworleans.com, the blog run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;And in Other Gardening News</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/08/21/and-in-other-gardening-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/08/21/and-in-other-gardening-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[700 block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[main street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Today, the first steps were taken to convert the 700 block of Main Street into a two-way thoroughfare. Those first steps were to cut down all the healthy, mature trees on the west side of the street—over 20 in all.

The new curb line will in fact make the street narrower, but apparently it would have [...]]]></description>
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