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		<title>Great Lakes Environmental Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Creek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1980&#8242;s I was a naturalist at Huron Clinton Metropark&#8217;s Kensington Nature Center, in Oakland County, MI. I averaged 300 public programs a year, with the majority of those school programs at the park or in schools. There were 4 of us at Kensington and roughly the same number at the other large metroparks.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Champion Native Plants In Landscape Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Creek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All good landscape design employs a combination of art and science to create beautiful, functional, outdoor spaces for human use and enjoyment using living plants, landforms, and “hardscape” elements such as walks, drives, decks, water features, boulders, statuary, and the like.  But not all landscape designers are the same. With the staggering loss of biodiversity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; 2011 Holiday Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Creek</dc:creator>
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		<title>REVEALING SECRETS  ABOUT ~ the birds and the bees</title>
		<link>http://wildsideassociates.com/2010/07/05/revealing-secrets-about-the-birds-and-the-bees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Creek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fact sheet  is part  of a series of materials  on ecosystem services available through the Ecological Society of America and  the Union of Concerned Scientists’ POLLINATION: An Essential Ecosystem  Service Our Future Depends on  Pollination •   Many people think only of allergies when they hear the word pollen. But pollination—the transfer of pollen grains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WATER PURIFICATION ~ An Essential Ecosystem Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Creek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*This fact sheet  is part  of a series of materials on ecosystem services available through the Ecological Society of America and the Union of Concerned Scientists’ “Communicating Ecosystem  Services Project.” We All Need Water to Survive Water Purification is one of the many services provided by ecosystems. Pollutants such as metals, viruses, oils, excess nutrients, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phenology ~ The Four Seasons</title>
		<link>http://wildsideassociates.com/2010/06/02/the-four-seasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Creek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our planet, Earth, has had variations in the amount and location of sunlight falling upon it since it began swirling around the sun at the beginning of our solar system.  Early life forms probably needed to live in tropical conditions where the climate was pretty constant and water was a liquid all of the time. [...]]]></description>
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