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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteGlobal Warming/Climate Change &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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		<title>The Newcastle Fair Share Festival is On Again!</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/08/the-newcastle-fair-share-festival-is-on-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Shiel</dc:creator>
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When: 9 &#8212; 11 March 2012, starting on the evening of March 9
  Where: Hamilton Public School, corner of Tudor Steet and Steel Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
  Theme: &#34;Transitioning to connected communities, localised fair economies and sustainable lifestyles.&#34;
 Please put this event in your diaries, and &#8216;like&#8217; us at www.facebook.com/#!/FairShareFestival
In this second and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011: A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/2011-a-year-of-weather-extremes-with-more-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming/Climate Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Janet Larsen and Sara Rasmussen
The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Ni&#241;a atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and relatively low solar irradiance. Since the 1970s, each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginary Friends</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/30/imaginary-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy Break]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather forecasters used by the Daily Mail and other papers don’t appear to exist. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

The talented line-up of weather forecasters at &#8216;Positive Weather Solutions&#8217;
Click for larger view
Earlier this month, I questioned the credentials of the alternative weather forecasters being used by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/23/governments-spend-1-4-billion-per-day-to-destabilize-climate/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/23/governments-spend-1-4-billion-per-day-to-destabilize-climate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute
We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion in 2010. Of this, supports on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture at The Farm</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/permaculture-at-the-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert Bates</dc:creator>
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        Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the &#8220;Keyline Cowboy&#8221; after a carbon farming course at The Farm&#8217;s Ecovillage Training Center transformed his life. He quit his job, bought a keyline plow and compost tea brewer, and moved to The Farm.


Climate Prophylaxis
For the past 10 years or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living, Green and Circular</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/living-green-and-circular/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mae-Wan Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Truly Green Economy needs to be modeled after and embedded within the circular economy of nature to generate and regenerate wealth for people and planet.
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Note: A fully illustrated and referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here.

  The linear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/12/bumper-2011-grain-harvest-fails-to-rebuild-global-stocks/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/12/bumper-2011-grain-harvest-fails-to-rebuild-global-stocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Shortages]]></category>
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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>Polar Opposites</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/polar-opposites/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/polar-opposites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming/Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How weather forecasts became a political issue.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

“Brrr-ace yourselves! Britain to shiver in -20&#176;C in WEEKS as councils stockpile extra grit”(1). So the Mail on Sunday warned us in October. Blizzards, snowdrifts, locusts with the faces of men and the teeth of lions: we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Bail-Out for the Planet</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/20/no-bail-out-for-the-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/20/no-bail-out-for-the-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it so easy to save the banks, but so hard to save the biosphere?
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.
They bailed out the banks in days. But even deciding to bail out the planet is taking decades. 
Lord Stern estimated that capping climate change would cost around [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Shortages]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salination]]></category>
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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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