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		<title>Biofuels: Insights Into a Burning Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A far more sophisticated approach needs to be taken when developing biofuels as an environmentally-friendly energy option according to a recent report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme&#8217;s (UNEP) International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management.
Governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if their deployment is to benefit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/19/biofuels-insights-into-a-burning-issue/</link>
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		<title>Michael Pollan on Food, Energy, Climate Change and Health</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/09/michael-pollan-on-food-energy-climate-change-and-health/</link>
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		<title>Friday Night 2nd Encore &#124; Space-Based, Agricultural Sensing Helps Feed a Hungry World (3)</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Friday Night Encore &#124; Space-Based, Agricultural Sensing Helps Feed a Hungry World (2)</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Friday Night at the Movies &#124; Space-Based, Agricultural Sensing Helps Feed a Hungry World</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Step Forward &#124; Eat Your Vegetables: November is World Vegan Month</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/05/step-forward-eat-your-vegetables-november-is-world-vegan-month/</link>
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		<title>Minority Members Boycott Senate Committee Meeting on Climate Change Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Environment and Public Works Committee of the US Senate was scheduled to begin mark-up on the Boxer-Kerry climate bill today, but was thwarted as all seven Republican members made good on last week’s threat to boycott the meeting. Members of the Republican minority also boycotted the committee’s October 27 open hearing on climate and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/03/minority-members-boycott-senate-committee-meeting-on-climate-change-bill/</link>
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		<title>Congress Approves $475 Million for Great Lakes Cleanup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Congress approved $475 million to restore the Great Lakes by combating invasive species, cleaning up highly polluted sites and expanding wetlands, reports the Detroit News.
The bill also includes $131 million to finance wastewater and drinking water projects in Michigan, $11.2 million for 14 projects in the state, and $1 million for mass marking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/11/02/congress-approves-475-million-for-great-lakes-cleanup/</link>
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		<title>Eco-Roundup &#124; 10.31.09</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/31/eco-roundup-10-31-09/</link>
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		<title>US Announces Smart-Grid Investment as Nation&#8217;s Largest Photovoltaic Solar Facility Goes Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The largest photovoltaic solar power plant in the US went online this Tuesday, eighty miles southeast of Tampa, amid the citrus trees and cattle farms of Arcadia, Florida.
With its 25-megawatt output capacity, the Desoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center built by Florida Power and Light generates nearly twice as much power as the facility it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2009/10/29/obama-announces-smart-grid-investment-as-largest-photovoltaic-solar-facility-goes-online/</link>
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