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		<title>Michael Pollan on Food, Energy, Climate Change and Health</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/09/michael-pollan-on-food-energy-climate-change-and-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Pollan, author, journalist and activist, talks with GristTV in a short interview about the food industry&#8217;s relationship to energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and health.

Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. and a former executive editor for Harper&#8217;s Magazine whose books include:

In Defense of Food: An Eater&#8217;s Manifesto (2008)
The Omnivore&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night 2nd Encore &#124; Space-Based, Agricultural Sensing Helps Feed a Hungry World (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Third in a series of three posts).
This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Episodes 5 and 6 of NASA&#8217;s, Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night Encore &#124; Space-Based, Agricultural Sensing Helps Feed a Hungry World (2)</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/07/friday-night-encore-space-based-agricultural-sensing-helps-feed-a-hungry-world-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Second in a series of three posts).
This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Episodes 3 and 4 of NASA&#8217;s, Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night at the Movies &#124; Space-Based, Agricultural Sensing Helps Feed a Hungry World</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/06/friday-night-at-the-movies-satellite-agricultural-sensing-helps-feed-a-hungry-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, Friday Night at the Movies features a special, 6-part presentation on space-based agricultural sensing and the role it plays in understanding global food production, land and water use, food security, agricultural economics, and monitoring impacts of climate change on growing patterns.
Produced by NASA, Science for A Hungry World explores the application of science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Forward &#124; Eat Your Vegetables: November is World Vegan Month</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/05/step-forward-eat-your-vegetables-november-is-world-vegan-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vegan is one who tries to live a life free of animal products. Vegans eat a plant-based diet, with no components from animals: no meat, dairy, eggs or honey. A vegan lifestyle also avoids leather, wool, silk and other animal products for clothing or other merchandise, and animal tested products.
The Vegan Society, founded in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco-Roundup &#124; 10.26.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are Coral Reefs Beyond Saving?
BBC News reports that prospects of saving the world&#8217;s coral reefs now appear so bleak that scientists have recommended freezing samples in liquid nitrogen to preserve them for the future so that, should global temperatures be stabilized, corals could be reintroduced.
If you&#8217;re wondering whether the situation is really that bad, read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Business as Usual&#8221; Deepens World Water Crisis</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/09/business-as-usual-deepens-world-water-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ecology.com/ecology-today/?p=2695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Demand for water has never been as great as it is today, and it will only increase due to population growth and mobility, rising living standards, changes in food consumption, and increased energy production, especially biofuels. Access to basic water-related services (safe drinking water, sanitation and food production) remains inadequate in much of the developing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millions Face Climate-Related Hunger as Seasonal Changes Continue</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/06/millions-face-climate-related-hunger-as-seasons-shift-and-change/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/06/millions-face-climate-related-hunger-as-seasons-shift-and-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shifting seasons are destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger, and that is just one of the multiple climate change impacts taking their toll on the world&#8217;s poorest people, according to a recent report from Oxfam International. Oxfam is a U.K.-based confederation of 14 like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies around the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco-Roundup &#124; 8.03.09</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/08/03/eco-roundup-80309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A New Epoch in Earthâ€™s Geophysical History: The Anthropocene Period
Einstein is often quoted as saying, â€œWe can&#8217;t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.â€  Perhaps this is the kind of paradigm shift he had in mind&#8230;
Just as changes to the Earth&#8217;s orbit, volcanic eruptions and asteroid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Forward &#124; Think Local</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/07/29/step-forward-think-local/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is the perfect time to get acquainted with local produce. Local gives &#8220;fresh&#8221; new meaning &#8211; providing food with far more flavor, nutrition and connection to the local landscape than supermarket fare. Purchasing produce close to where it is grown insures that it is in its peak form. Supermarket shipping and processing can put [...]]]></description>
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