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		<title>Recycling Buildings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recycling materials of all kinds has been strongly promoted.  It helps the environment by reducing landfill waste, conserving energy used in production and preserving natural resources damaged and depleted through ex­traction. Building recycling does this on a large scale. It is a “green” approach to construction that can often save your church a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Hot Outside; How&#8217;s Your Electric Bill?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a record setting year. For those of us in the northeast region of the country, the snowiest winter on record is being followed by what may be the hottest summer on record. Globally, this has been the warmest January to June period since they started keeping track in the nineteenth century. Electric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q &amp; A on PV Systems (Solar Electric) with Steve Domyan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q. Are PV systems practical for churches? SD: The economics for PV systems can be very complicated. That is because the cost of a system is greatly affected by state and federal incentives. Many states have rebate programs and grants. All of them are different. The federal incentives are all tax credits or tax deductions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Energy Savings Workshop</title>
		<link>http://theministrycafe.com/2010/08/church-energy-savings-workshop/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=church-energy-savings-workshop</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us Thursday, October 14, 2010 for a half-day workshop at Bethel&#8230; The Church @ Franklin Mills in Philadelphia, PA. Topics to be covered include: Understanding the changing land­scape of energy use and costs today The unique challenges churches face in managing energy Maximizing your return on invest­ment when upgrading and improving Energy cost implications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Christian&#8221; Gardens?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought provoking question was posed to me recently: “what is a distinctly “Christian” garden?” I thought I’d try to answer it in this blog to conclude the subject of gardens over the past month. It is easier to answer “what is a “Buddhist” garden?” than “what is a Christian garden”, since the garden style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardens as Places of Prayer</title>
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		<comments>http://theministrycafe.com/2010/06/gardens-as-places-of-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve heard it said that “prayer began in a garden” (meaning the Garden of Eden), but I don’t think that’s true. In the simplest sense of the word, prayer is people communicating TO God. In Eden, there was two-way communication between God and people, what would be better termed “communion”. Prayer began when face-to-face communion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Garden</title>
		<link>http://theministrycafe.com/2010/06/the-first-garden/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-first-garden</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gardens are full of rich Biblical significance.  There are several different uses of the term ‘garden’ in the Bible. Often it is an agricultural application, referring to vineyards, groves of fruit trees or vegetable plots.  (Jeremiah 29:5 , Deuteronomy 11:10 ). In other applications, it is primarily an outdoor environment; a place of beauty for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardens for our God</title>
		<link>http://theministrycafe.com/2010/06/gardens-for-our-god/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gardens-for-our-god</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I get a new album that I really like, I tend to play it repeatedly until it plays in my head independent of any listening device. Such has been the case with Phil Wickham’s latest release, Heaven &#38; Earth. The opening song, Eden, poetically expresses a longing to return to a place of origin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Money by Reducing Energy Demand (What my pond pump made clear to me)</title>
		<link>http://theministrycafe.com/2010/04/saving-money-by-reducing-energy-demand-what-my-pond-pump-made-clear-to-me/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=saving-money-by-reducing-energy-demand-what-my-pond-pump-made-clear-to-me</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the expression “one thing that amazes me about common sense is how uncommon it is”. I don’t know who coined that expression first, but I think of it often (especially when dealing with my kids). When I first studied architecture in the 70’s, the oil crisis was fresh in the minds of most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Resources</title>
		<link>http://theministrycafe.com/2009/02/green-resources/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=green-resources</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Jeff wrote an article titled Practically Green, stressing ways churches can employ sustainable principles that are also economically feasible. YourChurch Magazine has posted an article, The Great Green Question, which is exploring a similar topic. What follows is a short list of other resources that may enhance your awareness of sustainability: From TheMinistryCafe.com Search [...]]]></description>
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