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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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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permaculture]]></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>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>Railroads</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/02/11/railroads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/02/11/railroads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[export]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[railroads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 

&#160;My Dad is a train fanatic, he loves trains, has loved them since he was a kid.  Lately he has been telling me about the incredible value of transporting things by rail, not just goods (which remains a ubiquitous service in the United States), but also people.  He argues that its pretty [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/08/15/agriculture-spurs-warming/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm-Bill]]></category>

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    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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agri-Therm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate-change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pyrolysis]]></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>The Question of Agrobiodiversity</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/02/12/the-question-of-agrobiodiversity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/02/12/the-question-of-agrobiodiversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Theme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural-biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared-Diamond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    Over the past century, we have seen massive loss of agricultural biodiversity, in terms of both species and varieties.  The statistics on biodiversity loss in varietal strains are staggering.  According to the book Fatal Harvest, from 1903 to 1983, we have lost  80.6 percent of tomato varieties, 92.8 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Agroinnovations Podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/02/06/the-agroinnovations-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/02/06/the-agroinnovations-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Theme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agroinnovations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 

&#160;Though I have yet to blog about it, over at Agroinnovations we've been working hard putting together a podcast focused on agriculture and natural resource management.&#160; The podcast is done via a series of themes, and the first theme was agricultural biodiversity, the second was community supported agriculture, and now we're busily preparing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/02/05/back-to-blogging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/02/05/back-to-blogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate-change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    I've been MIA in the blogosphere for well over a month now.  No excuses, just haven't felt the need to be blogging lately.  Its certainly true that the global warming issue is massive, and just trying to grasp what is at stake by reading and observing could be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New @ Agroinnovations</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/05/new-agroinnovations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/05/new-agroinnovations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural-innovations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agroinnovations]]></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>Correction and Microcredit</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/04/correction-and-microcredit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/04/correction-and-microcredit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microcredit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microlending]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Gleaning knowledge from street discussions and first impressions is, in every sense, qualitative by nature.  I make as many mistakes as anybody else in the world.  This time I was incorrect to assert that &#34;all Bolivian banks maintain about the same rates of interest; quite frankly, the entire Bolivian banking system has collusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Transitions</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/01/16/organic-transitions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/01/16/organic-transitions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic-agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic-transition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    For the farmer, the transition to organic is one of the most risk-prone and unpredictable times in an already turbulent industry.   Candace Page of the Free Press has written an excellent article about organic milk farmer Earl Fournier's transition from a conventional to an organic dairy farm.  From [...]]]></description>
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