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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New York Family Gives Up AC, TV, and Electricity -- for a Whole Year]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/13/new-york-family-gives-up-ac-tv-or-electricity-for-a-whole-y/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/13/new-york-family-gives-up-ac-tv-or-electricity-for-a-whole-y/</guid><description><![CDATA[How did they make it through the winter? New York gets pretty damn cold in the winter months. Unless they all huddled in one room with a fireplace, I don't see how they made it through. Also, and someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't burning firewood more carbon inefficient than using gas or oil heat? Not to mention the fact that to truly have no impact he would have to replant every tree he had to use to keep warm.<br><br>For that matter, how did he get water? Keeping water pressure in the lines requires the water company to use electricity. Or did he conveniently overlook that? Then again, an apartment or house with no heat would have its pipes freeze pretty quickly in a NYC winter anyway. <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jhexel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2009 10:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New York Family Gives Up AC, TV, and Electricity -- for a Whole Year]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/13/new-york-family-gives-up-ac-tv-or-electricity-for-a-whole-y/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/13/new-york-family-gives-up-ac-tv-or-electricity-for-a-whole-y/</guid><description><![CDATA[All for publicity. What is interesting is they put their now 4 year old daughter through this. So let me get this straight, CPS will take your kids away from you if they see you spank them, but they allow this couple to put their daughter through no electricity, heat, AC, etc?    ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[S321Saint]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 13th 2009 10:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on New York Family Gives Up AC, TV, and Electricity -- for a Whole Year]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/13/new-york-family-gives-up-ac-tv-or-electricity-for-a-whole-y/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/13/new-york-family-gives-up-ac-tv-or-electricity-for-a-whole-y/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, are you against spanking or avoiding electricity? <br><br>I personally know two families that live like that here in Asheville, NC, and they are both above average in the well-adjusted department.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[iknowaeiou]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 14th 2009 1:47AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
