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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteWater Contaminaton &amp; Loss &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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	<itunes:summary>Changing the world one site at a time</itunes:summary>
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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>Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/21/permaculture-in-damaged-lands-degradation-and-restoration-in-new-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico 
 &#8212; the remnants of a now defunct railway.
  Alternately barren and spectacular, the southwest United States has piqued the imagination of Americans and people across the world for generations. The site of gold rushes, Native American homelands, and a culture of lawlessness that [...]]]></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>Greeks Reclaim the Land to Ease the Pain of Economic Austerity</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/greeks-reclaim-the-land-to-ease-the-pain-of-economic-austerity/</link>
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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>
		<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>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/04/pine-pollen-how-to-pick-your-own-superfood/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Act Now to Stop the Keystone Pipeline (Again!)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/10/act-now-to-stop-the-keystone-pipeline-again/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/10/act-now-to-stop-the-keystone-pipeline-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kretzmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First the good news: President Obama is standing firm on his decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline, and he&#8217;s threatened to veto any attempt by Congress to move that timeline up.
  Of course, that&#8217;s exactly what those legislators who are most bought by Big Oil are trying to do. They&#8217;re trying to attach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dehydration and Rehydration of the Australian Landscape</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/23/the-dehydration-and-rehydration-of-the-australian-landscape/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/23/the-dehydration-and-rehydration-of-the-australian-landscape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Campbell Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article and diagrams copyright &#169; Cam Wilson
This is a pictorial tour of the degradation and dehydration process that the Australian landscape went through post European settlement, along with one of the major aims of Peter Andrews&#8217; Natural Sequence Farming approach, namely the rehydration of the Australian landscape.

 If you were one of the early explorers, [...]]]></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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		<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>Letters from Jordan: &#8216;Greening the Desert &#8211; the Sequel&#8217; Site Contrasts Against Jordan Insanities</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/08/letters-from-jordan-greening-the-desert-the-sequel-site-contrasts-against-jordan-insanities/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/11/08/letters-from-jordan-greening-the-desert-the-sequel-site-contrasts-against-jordan-insanities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  Staring into the eyes of the future of Jordan, one wonders how things could be&#8230;.
  All Photographs &#169; Craig Mackintosh  

  
  
  Al Jazeera&#8217;s very recent feature of the new &#8216;Greening the Desert&#8217; site
Introduction
Why did the photojournalist cross the road? It sounds like the beginning of a [...]]]></description>
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