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		<title>CLIMATE CHANGE:  Native Peoples Sound Dire Warning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Apr 22 (IPS) &#8211; Humanity&#8217;s hot carbon breath is not just melting the planet’s polar regions, it is disrupting natural systems and livelihoods around the world, indigenous people reported this week at a global meeting on climate change in Anchorage, Alaska.
&#8220;We indigenous people are the prow of the ship of humanity in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do societies fail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how &#8212; if we see it in time &#8212; we can prevent it.

But look, Diamond says, at Easter Island. Once, it was home to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Disappearing Forests</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae, is native to the forests of western North America. Periodic outbreaks of the insect, previously called the Black Hills beetle or Rocky Mountain pine beetle, can result in losses of millions of trees. Outbreaks develop irrespective of property lines, being equally evident in wilderness areas, mountain subdivisions and back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forestry Practices and Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://www.easy-being-green.com/blog/2008/08/forestry-practices-and-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way land is used can have an affect on global warming.  Forests are an important use of land in most countries, and in modern times they take on a new, environmental significance.
Plant life can scrub carbon dioxide from the air.  Much of the very carbon dioxide that is one of the causes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich countries &#8216;failed to heed&#8217; food crisis warnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As nations meet to discuss spiraling food prices, the Food and Agriculture Organization says huge investment is needed to stem hunger and unrest.
New Scientist -03 June 2008
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) is warning that the soaring cost of food is threatening millions of people in developing countries.Food prices are now growing at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rice -Researchers boost yields of waste biofuel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese scientists have developed a new method that dramatically increases the yield of a clean biogas fuel from rice straw.
China is the world&#8217;s largest rice producer and the industry results in 230 million tonnes a year of surplus rice &#8217;straw&#8217; — the stem and leaves left behind after harvesting. Farmers often burn the straw, increasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biofuels Scam, Food Shortages and the Coming Collapse of the Human Population</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was one of the dumbest &#8220;green&#8221; ideas ever proposed: Convert millions of acres of cropland into fields for growing ethanol

from corn, then burn fossil fuels to harvest the ethanol, expending more energy to extract the fuel than you get from the fuel itself! Meanwhile, sit back and proclaim you&#8217;ve achieved a monumental green victory [...]]]></description>
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