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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteFood Shortages &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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		<title>Nichole Foss to Give Talk at The Channon (Feb 10, 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What: Nichole Foss talk on the present and future crises
  Where: The Channon Community Hall, near Lismore, NSW, Australia (and a stone&#8217;s throw from the PRI&#8217;s Zaytuna Farm)
  When: 10th of February,  starting at 5.30 pm
  Cost?: Donation at door
Nicole M. Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth (TAE), where she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil Can Fuel a Change for the Better</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/peak-oil-can-fuel-a-change-for-the-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The advent of peak oil means we should prepare for a downscaling of our highly energy and resource-intensive lifestyles.
What is peak oil and why does it matter? And what effect will it have on the Western lifestyles we take for granted? These are not questions that many people are asking themselves yet, but this decade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil, Energy Descent, and the Fate of Consumerism</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/peak-oil-energy-descent-and-the-fate-of-consumerism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Alexander</dc:creator>
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Western-style consumer lifestyles are highly resource and energy intensive. This paper examines the energy intensity of these consumer lifestyles and considers whether such lifestyles could be sustained in a future with declining energy supplies and much higher energy prices. The rise of consumer societies since the industrial revolution has only been possible due to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greeks Reclaim the Land to Ease the Pain of Economic Austerity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beatrice Yannacopoulou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: The recently-formed PRI Hellas (Greece) team are making good progress in difficult times, as evidenced by this nice piece from The Ecologist below. If you want to support this work, whilst having a great learning experience in an incredibly beautiful location, be sure to check out their April 23 &#8211; 29, 2012, Intensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute
The world&#8217;s farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the global grain harvest coming in at 2,295 million tons, up 53 million tons from the previous record in 2009. Consumption grew by 90 million tons over the same period to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Plow That Broke the Plains</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/05/the-plow-that-broke-the-plains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love history. As they say, if you don&#8217;t learn from it, you&#8217;re destined to repeat it. The video below, circa 1937, is a fascinating look at how men forsook the crucial observational stage when making the best laid plans of mice and men and in doing so took an enormous swathe of stable prairie, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer Suicides Rising in India as GM Bt Cotton Crops Fail</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/05/farmer-suicides-rising-in-india-as-gm-bt-cotton-crops-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/05/farmer-suicides-rising-in-india-as-gm-bt-cotton-crops-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey M. Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Shortages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMOs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jeffrey M. Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology
The record suicide rate among farmers in India continues to rise, with one farmer now committing suicide every 30 minutes. Many media reports blame failed GM Bt cotton crops for the crisis.
  More than a quarter of a million farmers have killed themselves in the last 16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Grow: Edible Plant Information Resources</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/26/learn-grow-edible-plant-information-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/26/learn-grow-edible-plant-information-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

I thought I&#8217;d share this excellent, growing resource on edible plants for specific regions. 
At time of writing the Learn Grow project has created comprehensive plant list info for the following regions:

Solomon Islands
Papua New Guinea
Timor Leste
Nigeria

In addition, the site has two disks available that should be of direct interest to Australian permaculturists:


Edible Plants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture in Jordan Video Series &#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/15/permaculture-in-jordan-video-series-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/15/permaculture-in-jordan-video-series-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This excellent little video, put together by Anselm Ibing, introduces a new  series on sustainable land use in Jordan. It kicks off with a concise look at historical aspects relating to Jordan&#8217;s present ecological situation. I&#8217;m now left looking forward to Part II&#8230;.

  

Further Reading:

Letters from Jordan: &#8216;Greening the Desert &#8211; the Sequel&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture Pygmies</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/10/permaculture-pygmies/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/10/permaculture-pygmies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier Fux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Xavier Fux

Deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pygmy communities had lived for generations as hunter-gatherers. When the Kahuzi Biega National Park was created in 1970 by the Congolese government, the Pygmies and other local communities were expulsed from the forest, their ancestral land, without receiving any compensation or any land [...]]]></description>
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