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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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		<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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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>Non-Ordinary States and Social Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/09/29/non-ordinary-states-and-social-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gandhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glenn beck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stanislov grof]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Anger is an ineffective tool for social transformation.  It is useful, but in a limited sense.  Anger can rile a population up, and fear can open one’s eyes to a fragile reality.  As they increase, anger and fear become counter-productive, destructive.  And today American society is governed by anger and fear. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Should Be Frightened</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/31/we-should-be-frightened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    We are constantly on the verge of another breakthrough. An information revolution. A nano-world. We transformed. We are on the verge of colonizing space. We shall go to Mars, we shall go beyond, we shall conquer the universe, or we shall go extinct trying. It seems irresponsible that we should do [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[permaculture]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean-Kleckner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[green-revolution]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>Closing the Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/06/13/closing-the-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/06/13/closing-the-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
As we push towards a truly green and sustainable revolution, business people and ecologists are increasingly forced to learn one another's language.&#160; Since the inception of environmentalism as a movement, business and economic activity was implicitly viewed as anathema, cruel and unresponsive, and responsible for the destruction of the natural world.&#160; &#160;Now, as climate change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecological Authoritarianism</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/05/21/ecological-authoritarianism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/05/21/ecological-authoritarianism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 20:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authoritarianism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    The authoritarian mind boxes itself into a corner.  Knowing the world as it is supposed to be, it views everything, Nature, society, and culture, through the prism of pre-defined rules and conditions, forcing the facts to conform to its concept of reality.   In all of us there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Photosynthetic Ceiling</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/27/the-photosynthetic-ceiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/27/the-photosynthetic-ceiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared-Diamond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul-Stamets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photosynthetic-ceiling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    The concept of a &#34;photosynthetic ceiling&#34; was first introduced in Jared Diamond's book Collapse. Though Diamond certainly did not pioneer the idea, as far as I can tell he was the first to use the easily digestible term &#34;photosynthetic ceiling&#34;, often referred to in other studies as human appropriation of terrestrial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Is Common Sense</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/23/green-is-common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common-sense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    Right-wing media outlets often portray those of us who advocate for the greening of the globe as &#34;liberal&#34; big-government wackos whose ideas have no place in the hard-nosed scrabble of policy debate. Their portrayal notwithstanding, the green movement is in fact one of the most common sense, community-oriented and self-reliant philosophies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unravelling Duoply</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/31/the-unravelling-duoply/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/31/the-unravelling-duoply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duopoly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election-2006]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    In many ways, I see partisan politics as a ploy to create the illusion of choice and, in the words of Noam Chomsky, to &#34;manufacture consent&#34;.  Polarizing the electorate has always ensured a 50/50 chance of victory.  Limiting our choices on election day is one of the most conscious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privatizing the Natural World</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/24/privatizing-the-natural-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/24/privatizing-the-natural-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beyond-organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center-For-Food-Safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    Many people don't realize that genetically modified (GMO) foods are already in our diets: in corn, soybeans, canola, and now in alfalfa.&#160;

     

    According to Will Rostoff, senior attorney at the Center for Food Safety, in the summer of 2005 the USDA approved the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information Intensive Agriculture</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/22/information-intensive-agriculture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/22/information-intensive-agriculture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    As Rudolf Steiner argued so many decades ago, the 20th century shift towards input intensive agriculture was, and is, troubling in so many ways.  According to Steiner, heavy investments in external inputs, like fertilizers and pesticides, are the symptoms of a sick farm system.  Just as human beings rely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New @ Agroinnovations</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/05/new-agroinnovations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Agricultural Innovations has several new content items available that might of interest to readers of this blog.&#160; First, in the spirit of Open Source applied to all the projects at agroinnovations.com, the group has published a document that focuses on the transfer of appropriate technology within a social
and cultural context.&#160; The document proposes the application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mixed Blessing</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/03/a-mixed-blessing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon-watershed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    

     
    
    Last Thursday I traveled to several rural areas outside of the city of Cochabamba to attend a day-long training in aquaculture systems.



    &#160;Part of the training involved a trip to the Chapare, that part of [...]]]></description>
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