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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>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/08/friday-night-2nd-encore-space-based-agricultural-sensing-helps-feed-a-hungry-world-3/</link>
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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; 10.31.09</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/31/eco-roundup-10-31-09/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/31/eco-roundup-10-31-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate Change, Human Rights Top Sustainability Priorities for Business Leaders at BSR Conference
From EthicalMarkets.com:
Climate change and human rights are the most significant priorities for business’ sustainability efforts in the year ahead, according to the “BSR/GlobeScan State of Sumarcstainable Business Poll 2009” of 274 business leaders from 15 countries who attended the BSR Conference 2009 in [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/09/business-as-usual-deepens-world-water-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>
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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>Step Forward &#124; Think Local</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/07/29/step-forward-think-local/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/07/29/step-forward-think-local/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Eco-Roundup &#124; 6.13.09</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/06/13/eco-roundup-11/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/06/13/eco-roundup-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
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The Political Reality of U.S. Carbon Geography
A map of per-capita carbon by state shows how emissions are more concentrated in poorer, more conservative regions, suggesting the political difficulties of limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Earth Policy Institute: Needed &#8212; A Copernican Shift
Just as Copernicus transformed our understanding by re-examining the relationship of Sun and Earth, Lester Brown [...]]]></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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