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	<title>Wind Power Handbook</title>
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	<description>Strategies for Community Organizers and Activists</description>
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		<title>The Age of Stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Timlynn Babitsky
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change set in 2055. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world 45 years from now. He looks back at video footage from 2007 and asks: Why didn&#8217;t we stop climate change when we had the chance? 
From [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Urban Wind Power – Hype, Hope or Here Today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Timlynn Babitsky 
We hear a great deal about wind farm development and even more about off-shore wind projects, but what’s being done on the urban wind scene? Are there wind projects afoot that will change the urban landscape?
Back in the 1970s a small Jacobs windcharger was installed on a tenement roof in Bronx, New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=83</link>
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		<title>Ground Zero for Urban Wind Power?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Timlynn Babitsky
With wind energy now such a broad topic of conversation, a number of places are looking to claim “best wind” bragging rights. Take Chicago for example. Widely known as The Windy City, locals there shiver, shake and proudly state how nearly continuously the wind off Lake Michigan blows briskly up and down their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=82</link>
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		<title>Property Values Blown Away?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Timlynn Babitsky
Do wind power farms, or even single wind energy turbines negatively impact the property values nearby? This controversial issue has people passionately lined up on both sides armed with anecdotal data and serious research results. The most often cited paper comes from a US study in 2003; it claims no negative impact. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=81</link>
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		<title>Wind Power Greed NY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Timlynn Babitsky
Suspicious shenanigans by wind developers in upstate New York have prompted the State’s Attorney General to develop a code of conduct for wind energy companies doing business in The Empire State. There is no question that wind power in New York State has the potential to make positive changes for many who live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=80</link>
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		<title>Bad vibe blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Timlynn Babitsky
The claim by wind power resistors that “infrasound” is a health problem for people living anywhere near modern wind turbines is not supported by facts. There is general agreement among acousticians that infrasound from wind turbines is not a problem. There is a turbine noise issue to which we do need to pay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Think Forward &#8211; Get Hired</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Timlynn Babitsky
The wind energy industry is the fastest growing segment of renewable energy production. There is a great need and increasing demand for skilled wind energy related technicians. Right now in the US, there are jobs going unfilled. Community Colleges - mandated to respond quickly to changing demands in the job market &#8211; are scrambling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Wind Power Jobs? You betcha!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Timlynn Babitsky
Demand is growing nationwide for wind turbine technicians, technologists, engineers, and wind energy educators. How is this pressuring universities, colleges, community colleges and technical schools to prepare their students for this rising job skills demand? A small sample of the educational scramble to meet the demands of this new &#8220;industrial revolution&#8221; points to an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=76</link>
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		<title>SWIFT and Small Wind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Timlynn Babitsky
The small wind turbine market is expected to grow by 18-20% through the next two years. When new tax incentives ($1,000 &#8211; $4,000 per system) go into effect in January ‘09, that growth will only accelerate. Between tax incentives, rising energy costs and increased environmental consciousness, residential and commercial scale wind turbine demand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Job lost? Think turbines!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Timlynn Babitsky
Layoffs continue to mount, unemployment claims reach new highs, and all indicators are “consistent with a deep recession” in the American economy. Let’s stop focusing on what has been and now is gone. We need to gear up ASAP for what Tom Friedman calls “the next great industrial revolution” – ‘green jobs’ in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.windpowerhandbook.com/?p=75</link>
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