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		<title>Explore the Ocean, Travel Back in Time or Visit Mars with Google Earth 5.0</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/02/09/explore-the-ocean-travel-back-in-time-or-visit-mars-with-google-earth-5-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oceans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sea Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest release of Google Earth, announced last week, includes a host of new features &#8212; the most dramatic being the ability to dive beneath the ocean surface, explore 3D underwater terrain and browse ocean-related content.
Ocean in Google Earth combines sea floor terrain and expert content to provide users with an opportunity to explore some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco-Roundup &#124; 02.07.10</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/02/07/eco-roundup-02-07-10/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/02/07/eco-roundup-02-07-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative & Renewable Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health, Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ecology.com/ecology-today/?p=3921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Benign by Design: Scientists Call for Green Chemistry
Seed Magazine:
There are now tens of thousands of synthetic chemicals—materials that exist nowhere in nature—that are manufactured commercially and go into products that range from electronics to cosmetics, clothing, cookware, and building materials&#8230; These chemicals were created to perform specific tasks and are intended to make our lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night at the Movies &#124; Climate Refugees</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/02/05/friday-night-at-the-movies-climate-refugees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oceans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ecology.com/ecology-today/?p=3872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among independent films making their public debuts at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival last month was Climate Refugees, a film about the human, social and cultural impacts of populations forced to abandon lands rendered uninhabitable by global climate change.
Estimates on the number of climate refugees the world can expect between now and 2050 vary, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Forward &#124; Join the Great Backyard Bird Count: Feb. 12-15</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/02/04/step-forward-join-the-great-backyard-bird-count-feb-12-15/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/02/04/step-forward-join-the-great-backyard-bird-count-feb-12-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bird watchers coast to coast are invited to take part in the 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, Friday, February 12, through Monday, February 15, 2010.  Participants in the free event will join tens of thousands of volunteers counting birds in their own backyards, local parks or wildlife refuges.
Each checklist submitted by these &#8220;citizen scientists&#8221; helps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Military to Acknowledge the Threat of Global Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/02/01/u-s-military-to-acknowledge-acknowledge-the-threat-of-global-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/02/01/u-s-military-to-acknowledge-acknowledge-the-threat-of-global-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Petz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a major strategy review to be presented to Congress today, the US military is expected to rank global climate change as a destabilizing force to national and international security, and will direct the Pentagon to include global warming in its long-term strategic planning.
While the review reportedly will not go so far as to cite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night at the Movies &#124; Health &amp; Wellness</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/01/29/friday-night-at-the-movies-health-wellness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health, Wellness]]></category>

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Friday Night at the Movies is pleased to present the final episode in a series of four videos from Ethical Markets Media, an independent media company covering the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide.










The Ethical Market Series





1.
Green Building &#38; Design

3.
Clean Food


2.
Renewable Energy

4.
Health &#38; Wellness







Episode 4. Health &#38; Wellness
Industrialized medicine has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Waste Our Time With &#8216;Environmentally Friendly&#8217; Living?</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/01/26/do-we-waste-our-time-with-environmentally-friendly-living/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/01/26/do-we-waste-our-time-with-environmentally-friendly-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ecology Review Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteerism]]></category>

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All your personal efforts to live more sustainably do not make any difference to the world’s environment.
That’s the assertion environmental writer Derrick Jensen makes in his recent article “Forget Shorter Showers,” published in Orion magazine.
The industrial economy is so large, and so much the source of our planet’s environmental woes, Jensen argues, that even if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Severe Global Water Shortages Seen Taking Root in Developing Nations</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/01/25/severe-global-water-shortages-seen-taking-root-in-developing-nations-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health, Wellness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Condition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Sources]]></category>
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The near absence of fresh water for the human population is already beginning to impact many sectors of the world, notably with the current situation in India.
By the year 2020, most major Indian cities are projected to run dry, according to data from the World Bank.  Severe water shortage had already led to a growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night at the Movies &#124; Clean Food</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/01/22/friday-night-at-the-movies-clean-food/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/01/22/friday-night-at-the-movies-clean-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Engelsiepen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture, Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business, Industry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ecology.com/ecology-today/?p=3682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


Friday Night at the Movies is pleased to present the third in a series of four videos from Ethical Markets Media, an independent media company covering the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide.










The Ethical Market Series





1.
Green Building &#38; Design

3.
Clean Food


2.
Renewable Energy

4.
Health &#38; Wellness







Episode 3. Clean Food
Concerns about the industrialization of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low or Zero-Carbon Sources Are Crucial for Future Energy Security: IEA</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2010/01/20/low-or-zero-carbon-sources-are-crucial-for-future-energy-security-iea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Impact]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ecology.com/ecology-today/?p=3829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Energy Agency (IEA) has steadfastly confirmed the growing need for low carbon biofuels to increase global energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) relative to petroleum.
“Energy needs to be used more efficiently and the carbon content of the energy we consume must be reduced, by switching to low- or zero-carbon sources,” says [...]]]></description>
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