<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title><![CDATA[TBO Going Green Stories]]></title>
<link>http://www2.tbo.com/content/list/life/green/</link>
<description><![CDATA[TBO Going Green Stories]]></description>
<language>en</language>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[USF students inspire sustainable fashion show]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/13/usf-students-inspire-sustainable-fashion-show/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/13/usf-students-inspire-sustainable-fashion-show/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[The students' opinions were used to create a collection of recycled and sustainable fashions that will hit the runway Saturday night.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:42:00 EST]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Planned expansion of lead battery plant will add 125 jobs]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/12/planned-expansion-lead-battery-plant-will-add-125-/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/12/planned-expansion-lead-battery-plant-will-add-125-/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[Tampa community leaders hope a new processing plant for lead acid batteries can help revitalize a poor East Tampa neighborhood, create jobs and clean up a contaminated property.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:04:00 EST]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[District: Tests show contamination at 2 schools, but no threat]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/12/district-tests-show-contamination-2-schools-no-thr/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/12/district-tests-show-contamination-2-schools-no-thr/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[Recent tests conducted at two Hillsborough County schools have revealed higher-than-acceptable levels of arsenic, mercury, lead and other toxic contaminants in the soil, the district says.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:03:00 EST]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Waterstudy 'surprising' to Iorio]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/09/na-waterstudy-surprising-to-iorio/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/09/na-waterstudy-surprising-to-iorio/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[Hillsborough County commissioners embraced consolidating all the county's public water systems last Wednesday, tentatively approving $400,000 to study whether a merger has merit.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage ]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/06/caribbean-gulf-spared-widespread-coral-damage/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/06/caribbean-gulf-spared-widespread-coral-damage/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:05:00 EST]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Tampa carbon emissions expected to increase]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/03/tampa-carbon-emissions-expected-increase/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/03/tampa-carbon-emissions-expected-increase/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[The city's carbon footprint could soon be getting bigger. Tampa officials want to increase the amount of methanol they're allowed to use at the Howard F. Curren Wastewater Treatment Plant, a move environmental regulators say will double the level of ozone-depleting greenhouse gases coming from the facility.
]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:05:00 EST]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Private Cone Ranch meeting irks advisory panel member]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/03/na-private-cone-ranch-meeting-irks-advisory-panel-/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/03/na-private-cone-ranch-meeting-irks-advisory-panel-/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[A rift has developed on Hillsborough County's Cone Ranch advisory committee over a meeting between county officials and a private group of investors who want to sell a large swath of the 12,800-acre, county-owned ranch.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Meeting prompts concern among Cone Ranch committee]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/02/meeting-prompts-concern-among-cone-ranch-advisory-/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/02/meeting-prompts-concern-among-cone-ranch-advisory-/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[A rift has developed on Hillsborough County's Cone Ranch advisory committee over a meeting between county officials and a private group of investors who want to sell a large swath of the 12,800-acre, county-owned ranch.
]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[$267 million Florida energy grants leave out USF, Tampa]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/27/271259/usf-may-receive-smart-grid-energy-grant/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/27/271259/usf-may-receive-smart-grid-energy-grant/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[A Florida Power & Light project received one of the nation's largest grants: $200 million to create a smart grid. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:59:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Religious groups plan climate change observance for Saturday]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/23/231849/religious-groups-plan-climate-change-observance-sa/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/23/231849/religious-groups-plan-climate-change-observance-sa/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[Thousands of congregations and other groups worldwide will take part in the Global Day of Climate Action to draw attention to climate change.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:49:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Look for 'green machines' at Tampa Bay International Auto Show]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/23/look-green-machines-tampa-bay-international-auto-s/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/23/look-green-machines-tampa-bay-international-auto-s/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[Scott Settlemire stood amid the hundreds of cars at the Tampa Bay International Auto Show and wondered, for a moment, what it would be like if there was one vehicle that fit all our needs.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:08:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Suit filed over pollution from Bay Pines defense plant ]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/23/suit-filed-over-pollution-bay-pines-defense-plant/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/23/suit-filed-over-pollution-bay-pines-defense-plant/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[Seventeen years later, attorney Joseph Saunders has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of neighbors because acids, poisons and toxic chemicals from a Bay Pines defense plant have contaminated groundwater and may have migrated to surrounding homes.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:27:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Davis Islands, TGH, under water in 2100, researcher says]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/22/221714/global-warming-researcher-area-discusses-melting-i/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/22/221714/global-warming-researcher-area-discusses-melting-i/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[Gordon Hamilton, a research professor at the University of Maine, has done extensive research on how melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica are affecting global sea levels. He's in Tampa as part of the Hip Boot Tour, which is organized by Clean Air-Cool Plant, a nonprofit global warming activist group.
]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:14:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Tampa Sports Authority halts use of herbicide at golf courses]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/22/use-herbicide-rogers-park-halted-amid-groundwater-/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/22/use-herbicide-rogers-park-halted-amid-groundwater-/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[MSMA is approved by the Florida Department of Agriculture and applied only by licensed professionals.
But the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is concerned the weedkiller is contaminating the groundwater at least one of the courses, Rogers Park, 7911 N. 30th St., which is bounded by the Hillsborough River and within a mile of hundreds of drinking-water wells.
]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:30:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Alabama, Texas oil revenues below Florida estimates]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/21/211914/state-house-panel-holds-hearing-offshore-drilling/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/21/211914/state-house-panel-holds-hearing-offshore-drilling/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[TALLAHASSEE (AP) — Texas and Alabama get far less money every year from offshore drilling in their state waters than advocates say Florida can expect, the state's environmental chief told a House panel Wednesday.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:14:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Temple Terrace canoe race puts focus on river ]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/17/temple-terrace-canoe-race-puts-focus-river/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/17/temple-terrace-canoe-race-puts-focus-river/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[It was a beautiful morning for a canoe race.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:26:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Samoa tsunamis obliterate some coral, spare others]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/17/samoa-tsunamis-obliterate-some-coral-spare-others/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/17/samoa-tsunamis-obliterate-some-coral-spare-others/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[ Scientists surveying American Samoa's coral reefs say Sept. 29's tsunami obliterated some corals and damaged others to the point that they may not recover.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:10:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Manatee refuge puts river flow project on hold]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/16/manatee-refuge-puts-river-flow-projects-hold/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/16/manatee-refuge-puts-river-flow-projects-hold/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[When temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico drop in winter, herds of manatee meander slowly up the Hillsborough River in search of warmer water.
]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:30:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Explorers: North Pole summers ice free in 10 years]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/14/explorers-north-pole-summers-ice-free-10-years/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/14/explorers-north-pole-summers-ice-free-10-years/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[The North Pole will turn into an open sea during summer within a decade, according to data released Wednesday by a team of explorers who trekked through the Arctic for three months.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:03:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Martinez, Iorio stump for Florida Forever]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/14/martinez-iorio-stump-florida-forever/life-green/]]></link>


<guid><![CDATA[http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/14/martinez-iorio-stump-florida-forever/life-green/]]></guid>

<description><![CDATA[It's been an easy concept from the start. Get developers to pay for growth by preserving vast stretches of natural Florida.

It worked for nearly two decades, until the economy went south last year and the state Legislature declined new funding for Florida Forever.

]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:18:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>
