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	<title>Ecology Today &#187; Farming</title>
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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>On the Brink of Catastrophe, Kenya Pledges to Plant 7.6 Billion Trees</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/08/27/on-the-brink-of-catastrophe-kenya-pledges-to-plant-76-billion-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecosystems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya, one of the world&#8217;s most popular and exotic wildlife ecosystems, has all but been decimated by loss of forest cover in recent history, severely threatening the health of the land, its people and once powerfully robust wildlife.
To address the country&#8217;s massive losses in forest cover, Kenyan communities will plant 7.6 billion trees over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Garden: A Miracle in South Central L.A.</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/08/18/the-garden-a-miracle-in-south-central-la/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/08/18/the-garden-a-miracle-in-south-central-la/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ecology.com/ecology-today/?p=2291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Film Review by Lisa Rosen
The title alone conjures up a biblical vision of tranquil harmony. Nature at its most pure and innocent. The first images of â€œThe Gardenâ€ may be more prosaic, but they nonetheless support that idea. A man, weathered by the years and by physical labor, wakes up before dawn and makes his [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/08/03/eco-roundup-80309/#comments</comments>
		<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>Eco-Roundup &#124; 6.6.09</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/06/06/eco-roundup-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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10 Natural Sunscreens for Safe Summer Fun
The Daily Green highlights 10 natural suncreens identified as effective by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).
Full listings of 134 EWG recommended products &#8212; and 589 products to avoid &#8212; are also available.
Europe Poised to Meet Kyoto Target
The European Environment Agency reports that 2007 marked the third consecutive year in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Food Crisis in Africa: Environment-Led Revolution Key to Future Food Security</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/06/01/environmental-food-crisis-in-africa-environment-led-revolution-key-to-future-food-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delivering food security to an additionalÂ one billion people in Africa will become ever more challenging over the next four decades unless more intelligent management of natural resources and emerging opportunities are brought to bear.
In addressing this and other similar crises, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development provided some new and sobering costs on how [...]]]></description>
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