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		<title>Hands Across the Sand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, at beaches all over the US and in places around the world, people joined hands to protest the BP Gulf disaster. By extension, people were also showing their support for using less oil and more renewable energy, hopefully reversing America&#8217;s oil addiction. This demonstration was organized and publicized by Hands Across the Sand, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geothermal Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent comment got me searching: Are there no geothermal energy plants that produces electric in Kauai ? Greetings from Iceland ;) Velkominn! Eftir því sem ég best veit, nei. (Welcome! As far as I know, no.) But there&#8217;s a map for that: These maps were produced in 2000 by GeothermEx, a &#8220;geothermal exploration, development, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii Insider</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like the idea of a Hawaii-themed contests as in my last post, there is one every Sunday on the Hawaii Insider travel blog&#8212;but they&#8217;re easier so you have to be quicker. Source: sfgate.com Hawaii Insider is mostly a blog for visitors, done by the Hawaii writer for sfgate.com and the San Francisco Chronicle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vanity, and a Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we moved to California at the end of last year, I was looking for ways to remind myself of Kaua&#8217;i in a positive, hopeful way. And I suppose, I also wanted a way to tell others &#8220;Hey, I just moved here from Kaua&#8217;i.&#8221; So, for the first time in my life, I really wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sad, Sad News</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, happy New Year 2009 to all, and thanks to the readers who are still checking in here. I&#8217;ll start with the good news: one of my new year&#8217;s resolutions is to blog regularly again, I even fixed my blog software so I can approve comments now. And now the bad news: as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highway 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This doesn&#8217;t have much to do with Kauai, but someone asked about California Highway 1 and I had written this for a friend a while ago. In a way, the California coast is similar to Kauai because you have a long stretch of road wedged between the hills and coastline, with lots of towns, side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kauai Olympian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick before the games are finished in Turin, I have to pass on the Kauai connection to the winter Olympics. Source: volcom.com (why not vol.com?) At 16 years old, the youngest member of the US snowboarding team is Elena Hight [not sure of the pronunciation on that]. According to the Garden Island newspaper, she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Reply to Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill just wrote to me: My wife and I have been envious of your ability to make the transition from mainlander to islander. [...] But we have to ask, how were you able to do it?! We have looked from afar at the property listings and they are outrageous even for modest properties. And yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawaii made the national news today with the announcement of the first gas price regulations (called the gas cap) in the country. It was even reported in California, a state with similar prices for gas and other cost of living expenses. Without going into the politics of regulation, I think the intent of the gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Eye of the Beholder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder what it that attracts people to Kaua`i, what makes them vacation here and then want to move here. Of course it&#8217;s exotic, but what is hiding behind that word? Kaua`i is tropical, not cold, very different from the mainland, and I think that difference is the natural beauty of the landscape. Not [...]]]></description>
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