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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteHealth &amp; Disease &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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		<title>Under Industry Pressure, USDA Works to Speed Approval of Monsanto&#8217;s Genetically Engineered Crops</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ludwig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by  Mike Ludwig, Truthout

For years, biotech agriculture opponents have accused regulators of working too closely with big biotech firms when deregulating genetically engineered (GE) crops. Now, their worst fears could be coming true: under a new two-year pilot program at the USDA, regulators are training the world&#8217;s biggest biotech firms, including Monsanto, BASF and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous Took Down Monsanto Website</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/25/anonymous-took-down-monsanto-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not as good as seeing  all of Monsanto&#8217;s plants and chemicals getting taken &#8216;offline&#8217;, but at least I can get a little mischevious pleasure from learning that Monsanto has been on the hit-list of the Anonymous team. The following video apparently shows how Monsanto was taken offline (Note that I&#8217;m a bit slow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question What&#8217;s Inside &#8211; Anti GMO Music Video</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/25/question-whats-inside-anti-gmo-music-video/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/25/question-whats-inside-anti-gmo-music-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Herring</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GMOs]]></category>
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  Download for iTunes here 
  (50% of the 99 cent fee goes to support the Institute for Responsible Technology&#8217;s
  work to battle the GMO takeover of the world.)
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Financial Management]]></category>
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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>Pine Pollen &#8211; How to Pick Your Own Superfood</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/pine-pollen-how-to-pick-your-own-superfood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunny Soleil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us know about pine needle tea as a rich source of Vitamin C, but now white pine pollen is to being promoted as a highly nutritious superfood powder. But who needs to buy it when you can pick your own?
Arthur Haines shows you how and when to harvest pine pollen with strategies for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Hidden Epidemic Destroying Your Gut Flora</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/24/the-hidden-epidemic-destroying-your-gut-flora/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/24/the-hidden-epidemic-destroying-your-gut-flora/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mercola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. Mercola

  

 Dr. Don Huber is an expert in an area of science that relates to the toxicity of genetically engineered (GE) foods. (Alternative terms for GE foods include genetically modified (GM), or &#34;GMO&#34; for genetically modified organism.) His specific areas of training include soil-borne diseases, microbial ecology, and host-parasite relationships. Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Argentinian Report Identifies Major Medical Problems Associated with Roundup Ready Soy</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/08/argentinian-report-identifies-major-medical-problems-associated-with-roundup-ready-soy/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/08/argentinian-report-identifies-major-medical-problems-associated-with-roundup-ready-soy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GM Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GMOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Disease]]></category>

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Note: An important report by Argentine physicians has just been published in English. It arose from the 1st National Meeting Of Physicians In The Crop-Sprayed Towns, at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the National University of Cordoba.
The report can be downloaded here (PDF).
It points once again to a big rise in birth defects, up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiring Story Shows Shortcut to End GMOs</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/07/inspiring-story-shows-shortcut-to-end-gmos/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/07/inspiring-story-shows-shortcut-to-end-gmos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey M. Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jeffrey M. Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology 

11 minutes
 It took the audience just 11 minutes to give up food brands they had grown up with and to commit to seek healthier non-GMO food. Of course this group had already been against genetically modified organisms as a concept. This was Greenfest after all; and [...]]]></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>New Zealand&#8217;s 160-2 Food Bill &#8211; an Opportunity!</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/24/new-zealands-160-2-food-bill-an-opportunity/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/24/new-zealands-160-2-food-bill-an-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Some of you will have seen the sensational &#8216;news&#8217; that the New Zealand government is planning to introduce a law that &#34;takes away the human right to grow food&#34;. Hopefully you&#8217;ll also realise that good &#8216;ol everything-is-a-conspiracy Alex Jones, who has the Infowars site where the above-linked article has been posted, has a very strong [...]]]></description>
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