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	<title>Agroblogger &#187; Agriculture</title>
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		<title>Permaculture the Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/11/23/permaculture-the-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  The clock is still ticking, and collapse continues unabated.  Most are oblivious to the true nature of the progression, what it means, why it's happening, and most importantly, what we should do about it. 

  &#160;But the answer is simple, and it's right in front of us.  It's so simple, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Son a Farmer Podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/02/23/son-a-farmer-podcast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agroinnovations-Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
If you are interested in learning about the perspective of farmers who are on the frontlines of the battle for sustainable food production, then listen to this recently published podcast over at Agroinnovations.&#160; This is an interview with Eric Herm of Sonofafarmer.com.
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		<title>Soil Health: A True Investor&#8217;s Safe-Haven</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/14/soil-health-a-true-investors-safe-haven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/14/soil-health-a-true-investors-safe-haven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soils]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As our markets implode and wave after wave of bad financial news hits the wire, wild-eyed investors search in vain for a &#34;safe haven&#34; from risky, highly leveraged investments; high risk investing started with complex investment instruments like credit default swaps and mortgage-backed securities, but has now filtered throughout the marketplace, moving to equities, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oyster Mushroom Production</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/11/03/oyster-mushroom-production/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/11/03/oyster-mushroom-production/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microfarm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mushrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mycelium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oyster mushrooms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[


&#160;Producing oyster mushrooms in our small, urban farm has proven a rewarding experience.  The above photo was taken several weeks after inoculation into freshly cut elm logs.  Inoculation was done using plug spawn, or wooden dowels heavily colonized with oyster mushroom mycelium.  I used a high powered drill to perforate the inoculation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporatizing Information</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/08/17/corporatizing-information/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/08/17/corporatizing-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair-Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

    Last year an article in the Economist pointed out some of the complexities and contradictions within the organic, Fair Trade, local food movement.  The article is well written and provocative, but is it accurate?  My attention was particularly drawn to statements made my Norman Borlaug, father of the Green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agriculture Spurs Warming</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/08/15/agriculture-spurs-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate-change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    A quick technorati search this morning gave me a general idea of an issue that is on many people's minds: agriculture is responsible for a large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions.  Just have a look here, here, here or here...four different bloggers posting independently of one another, on the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agrotherapy for the Disabled</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/29/agrotherapy-for-the-disabled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/29/agrotherapy-for-the-disabled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agrotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disabled-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
After hearing story after story about the therapeutic and life-changing effects of gardening on the mentally challenged, I couldn't help but notice a pattern.&#160; It's more like the pattern noticed me, and asked me to write about it.&#160;&#160; &#160;On a recent broadcast of This American Life, Veronica Chater tells the story of her developmentally disabled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kleckner Speaks Out&#8230;and Gets it Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/27/kleckner-speaks-outand-gets-it-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/27/kleckner-speaks-outand-gets-it-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural-biodiversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    In an article today on Truth About Trade &#38; Technology, Chairman Dean Kleckner criticizes former UN chief Kofi Annan for his rejection of the use of GMO crops by his organization the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.  

    &#160;According to Kleckner:
     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monsanto Defeated</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/26/monsanto-defeated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/26/monsanto-defeated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil-disobedience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetic-engineering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    As reported by the Public Patent Foundation, four of Monsanto's key patents related to genetically modified (GM) crops have been rejected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  After dozens of cases against North American farmers, the most well-known being Monsanto v Percy Schmeiser, the US Patent Office has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Farm Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/23/the-farm-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/23/the-farm-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    As the debate in Congress heats up over the revision and passage of the Farm Bill, the Democratic Congress is trying to find ways to pander and pork-barrel their way to re-election by keeping open the floodgate of subsidies to the farmers in their districts.   And as the Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mycelium Running</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/20/mycelium-running/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/07/20/mycelium-running/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agroinnovations-Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mushrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mycelium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mycelium-Running]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    In a recent interview on the Agroinnovations Podcast, Paul Stamets, mycologist and ecological pioneer, had this to say:

    
      &#34;There's a form of biological racism, unfortunately, that I have been confronting all of my life.  And, people are prejudiced against mushrooms.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Food Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/05/08/the-food-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/05/08/the-food-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 15:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food-revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New-Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Talk of a food revolution often obscures the very serious challenges that we face as we attempt to reinvent our agricultural systems.&#160; Here in New Mexico, we have the highest rating of all US states in food insecurity.&#160; Without a doubt, water is the primary resource responsible for our alarming lack of food security.&#160;References to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pyrolysis</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/10/pyrolysis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/10/pyrolysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agri-Therm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    Continuing on the idea of agricultural wastes, we move to pyrolysis, a term used to describe the conversion of biomass (and non-biological waste products, as well) into constituent elements by exposing it to moderate temperatures (~500ºC) in the absence of oxygen for short periods of time (fast pyrolysis). Though general research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mycoculture</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/05/mycoculture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/05/mycoculture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fungi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mycoculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul-Stamets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 

    &#160;Agricultural technologies that turn waste products into something useful have been absent from farming systems for too long now.  Weeds, manure, bagasse, corn cobs, shells and husks...these are a few of the waste products from a list of many.  Yet just as intensive outside inputs are a sign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GMOs Provoke Outrage</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/03/31/gmos-provoke-outrage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/03/31/gmos-provoke-outrage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetic-engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gmo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsanto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I've been awful at keeping up on my commitment to blogging. Its difficult as I try to work full time to pay the bills, but I suppose there are many amateur bloggers out there who manage to keep up with all of the different things they are juggling. I will be the first to admit, [...]]]></description>
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