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	<title>Mother Earth Journal &#187; Terri Hansen</title>
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	<description>Mother Earth Journal &#124; Environmental journalism &#124; Terri Hansen reporting: Environment &#124; Science &#38;  Traditional Knowledge &#124; Climate, Sustainability &#38; Adaptation &#124; Environmental Health. For complete environmental coverage read This Week From Indian Country or visit Indian Country Today Media Network</description>
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		<title>How Least Developed Countries Plan To Energize UN Climate Talks</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/16/howleast-developed-countries-plan-to-energize-un-climate-change-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/16/howleast-developed-countries-plan-to-energize-un-climate-change-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 03:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news releases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability | resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[un climate summits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate negotiations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world’s poorest countries have issued a bold plan to make the UN climate change talks more likely to reach their goal of having an effective and legally binding agreement ready for governments to adopt by 2015.]]></description>
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		<title>Cell Phones Run Amok, Ready To See Through Walls, Your Clothes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/13/cell-phones-run-amok-ready-to-see-through-walls-your-clothes/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/13/cell-phones-run-amok-ready-to-see-through-walls-your-clothes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 01:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electromagnetic frequency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiofrequency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers At UT Texas Tap Into Terahertz Spectrum For Consumer Use To See Though Walls, Clothes, and Into Bodies Even As Researchers at  Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico Discover Terahertz Waves Destroy Human DNA By Unzipping Human Helix Strand.]]></description>
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		<title>Hatcheries Are Necessary Tools</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/09/hatcheries-are-necessary-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/09/hatcheries-are-necessary-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guest authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sovereignty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[billy frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northwest indian fisheries commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salmon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Salmon hatcheries are under attack by people with very short memories. They have forgotten why many hatcheries were built in the first place. Billy Frank, Jr.]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal Tribes Convene to Tackle Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/07/coastal-tribes-convene-to-tackle-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/07/coastal-tribes-convene-to-tackle-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation |  solutions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[traditional knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[makah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quileute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quinault]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Symposium at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC will bring together indigenous and Western knowledge.]]></description>
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		<title>How’s the Air Out There?</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/30/hows-the-air-out-there/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/30/hows-the-air-out-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american lung association]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Lung Association's latest State of the Air reports that where you live has a big impact on whether the air you breathe is healthy or hazardous.]]></description>
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		<title>Yakama Won&#8217;t Let Willamette&#8217;s Toxic Mess Get Swept Under Columbia River Rug</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/29/yakama-wont-let-willamettes-toxic-mess-get-swept-under-columbia-river-rug/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/29/yakama-wont-let-willamettes-toxic-mess-get-swept-under-columbia-river-rug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[indigenous peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rivers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[columbia river]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terri hansen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[willamette river]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Portland Harbor Superfund Site feasibility study by the Lower Willamette Group proposes a range of clean-up options by the parties responsible for the contamination in the Willamette River. The Yakama Nation says it doesn’t go far enough.. ]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Communities Adapting to Climatic Changes</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/27/indigenous-communities-adapting-to-climatic-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/27/indigenous-communities-adapting-to-climatic-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation |  solutions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iied]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike shanahan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than 300 climate specialists from 60 countries gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam to discuss adaptation to climatic changes at last week's 6th Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change. A round up from IIED's Mike Shanahan.]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day Round Up: What&#8217;s Demands Attention 42 Years On?</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/22/earth-day-round-up-what-demands-attention/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/22/earth-day-round-up-what-demands-attention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental diseases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Day 2012. Al Jazeera reports mutated sea life in the Gulf of Mexico after BP spilled millions of gallons of crude oil into its waters and followed it with dispersants. Fracking is putting our water resources at risk. Around the country, Earth Day events call attention to ever worsening environmental crises.]]></description>
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		<title>TREATY RIGHTS RECOGNIZED BY THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/22/treaty-rights-recognized-by-the-organization-of-american-states/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/22/treaty-rights-recognized-by-the-organization-of-american-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 20th, a historic consensus decision adopting strong language on Treaty Rights was taken by the States attending the 14th session of negotiations for the proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Washington DC.  The proposed Declaration has been under negotiation by Indigenous Peoples and the 35 member States of the Organization of American States since 1995.]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Watchdog Journalism On Fracking</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/08/the-best-watchdog-journalism-on-fracking/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/08/the-best-watchdog-journalism-on-fracking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fracking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To kick off the conversation about fracking ahead of their live discussion in New York City April 9, ProPublica has collected some of the best, can't-miss journalism on the issue. By Blair Hickman and Cora Currier. ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten helped curate the list.]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal Tribes and Communities Prepare For Arrival of Japanese Tsunami Debris</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/07/coastal-tribes-and-communities-prepare-for-arrival-of-japanese-tsunami-debris/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/07/coastal-tribes-and-communities-prepare-for-arrival-of-japanese-tsunami-debris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[environmental disasters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hoh tribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japanese tsunami]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An empty plastic kerosene can with Japanese writing on it washed onto Point Grenville in March, possibly some of the first debris to reach the Olympic Coast following Japan’s catastrophic tsunami in 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>The Time for Climate Adaptation Upon Us</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/05/my-take-on-new-ipcc-report-on-climate-change-and-disasters-adapt-now/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/05/my-take-on-new-ipcc-report-on-climate-change-and-disasters-adapt-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother Earth is in for a destructive ride into the future. IPCC scientists give compelling evidence to confirm a connection between climate change and heat waves, record high temperatures and heavy precipitation in new report: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, or SREX for short. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rights of Mother Earth International Indigenous Conference</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/04/rights-of-mother-earth-international-indigenous-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/04/rights-of-mother-earth-international-indigenous-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dr. daniel wildcat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tom goldtooth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch live streaming of the 'Rights of Mother Earth' International Indigenous Conference. Look for upcoming coverage by Native American journalists in attendance.]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing Past Stalking Interference to Commit Journalism</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/02/pushing-past-interference-to-commit-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/02/pushing-past-interference-to-commit-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[victimization of native peoples]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[See "The Blog."]]></description>
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		<title>Elwha River Returning to Its Natural Channel</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/03/24/elwha-river-returning-to-its-natural-channel-and-soon-salmon-will-pass-first-time-in-100-years/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/03/24/elwha-river-returning-to-its-natural-channel-and-soon-salmon-will-pass-first-time-in-100-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day not too distant migrating Elwha River salmon will pass the deconstructed Elwha Dam for the first time in 100 years. ]]></description>
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		<title>Autism And Ultrasound &#8211; A Connection?</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/03/10/autism-and-ultrasound-a-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/03/10/autism-and-ultrasound-a-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can prenatal ultrasound play a role in autism? Experts agree autism results from multiple factors that interfere with normal brain development, beginning with conception and continuing through early childhood. New studies suggest environmental factors are just as or more important than genes. Health Science Consultant Nancy Evans sheds light on this critical topic.]]></description>
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		<title>Stories from the Gulf: Living with the Oil Disaster</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/02/29/stories-from-the-gulf-living-with-the-oil-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/02/29/stories-from-the-gulf-living-with-the-oil-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Documentary explores the impact of America's worst oil disaster on Gulf Coast residents, using stunning original photography and audio interviews produced by NRDC and Bridge the Gulf, recorded by StoryCorps, with opening narration by Robert Redford.]]></description>
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		<title>Interviewees Sought for Climate Change Project on Flathead Reservation</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/29/interviewees-sought-for-climate-change-project-on-flathead-reservation/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/29/interviewees-sought-for-climate-change-project-on-flathead-reservation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[confederated salish and kootenai tribes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pilot project by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Forestry Department, Rocky Mountain Research Station, and University of Leeds (UK) aims to develop understanding to support forest planning to address climate change uncertainty on the Flathead Indian Reservation. 
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		<title>Conserving Biodiversity Benefits World’s Impoverished Communities</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/29/conserving-biodiversity-benefits-worlds-impoverished-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/29/conserving-biodiversity-benefits-worlds-impoverished-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protecting land for biodiversity conservation delivers significant, life-sustaining services and income to the world's most impoverished people, yet conservation efforts and poverty alleviation efforts are at risk of failing, since this 'natural capital' is grossly undervalued in the global marketplace.
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		<title>$30,000 Reward for Information on Killings of Critically Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/23/30000-reward-for-information-on-killings-of-critically-endangered-hawaiian-monk-seals/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/23/30000-reward-for-information-on-killings-of-critically-endangered-hawaiian-monk-seals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservation organizations have joined to offer a reward for information about the recent killing of three critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals. The death of a fourth seal is also suspicious. Three were killed on Molokai, and the fourth on Kauai. Tip line: 1-855-DLNR-TIP.]]></description>
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		<title>Swinomish Tribe Watching Water Rights</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/02/swinomish-tribe-watching-water-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/02/swinomish-tribe-watching-water-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agriculture, development and human activites have led to declines in salmon runs throughout Puget Sound. These activities lead to a reduction in the stream flows needed for salmon to spawn and migrate.]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas reindeer mystery as world’s largest herd plummets</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world's largest reindeer herd, which roams the vast tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada has plummeted in size. The local indigenous people blame the spread of massive industrial projects in the area.]]></description>
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		<title>Heed Ecological Insights of Tribal Peoples in Global Decisions at the COP17</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/29/heed-ecological-knowledge-and-insights-of-tribal-peoples-in-global-decisions-at-un-cop17-climate-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) conference begins in Durban, South Africa, Indigenous advocacy group Survival International is calling for global decisions concerning climate change heed traditional ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Virtuous Circles&#8217; That Mimic Natural Cycles Can Secure Food Supplies and Address Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/26/virtuous-circles-that-mimic-natural-cycles-can-secure-food-supplies-and-address-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/26/virtuous-circles-that-mimic-natural-cycles-can-secure-food-supplies-and-address-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mother-earth-journal.com/?p=5503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A book from the International Institute for Environment and Development paints a vivid picture of an alternative future in which food, energy and water supplies are sustainable and in the control of local communities. The authors call instead for circular systems that mimic natural cycles to produce food, energy, materials and clean water.]]></description>
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		<title>Squaxin Island Tribe and Cities Strike Deal on Deschutes River Habitat Restoration</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/25/squaxin-island-tribe-and-cities-strike-deal-on-deschutes-river-habitat-restoration/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/25/squaxin-island-tribe-and-cities-strike-deal-on-deschutes-river-habitat-restoration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Squaxin Island Tribe and the cities of Olympia, Lacey and Yelm in Washington State are establishing the Deschutes Watershed Environmental Stewardship Coalition to focus on on-the-ground habitat restoration projects to jumpstart salmon productivity in the Deschutes River watershed.

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		<title>Portland Indian Leaders Share Release of &#8220;The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/5487/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/5487/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we celebrate National Native American Heritage Month, Portland's Indian Leaders Roundtable via a press release say they are excited to share the release of “The Native American Community in Multnomah County:  An Unsettling Profile” – the most widespread study of an urban Indian community, in this case, Portland, Ore. 

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		<title>Native American Journalists Association Welcomes New Board Members</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/native-american-journalists-association-welcomes-new-board-members/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/native-american-journalists-association-welcomes-new-board-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) board of directors is pleased to welcome two new board members: Mary Hudetz and Robert L. Ortiz.
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		<title>&#8220;End the Secrecy!&#8221; Says Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/21/end-the-secrecy-says-sarstoon-temash-institute-for-indigenous-management/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/21/end-the-secrecy-says-sarstoon-temash-institute-for-indigenous-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management Demands Explanation for US Oil Company’s Return to National Protected Land]]></description>
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		<title>Mysterious Disease Killing Arctic Alaska Ringed Seals</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/18/mysterious-disease-killing-arctic-alaska-ringed-seals/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/18/mysterious-disease-killing-arctic-alaska-ringed-seals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mysterious and potentially widespread disease is leading to the deaths of dozens of ringed seals along Alaska's Arctic coast. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tribal Individuals Eligible For Feathers From Hawks, Falcons, and Other Migratory Birds</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/18/tribal-individuals-eligible-for-feathers-from-hawks-falcons-and-other-migratory-birds/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/18/tribal-individuals-eligible-for-feathers-from-hawks-falcons-and-other-migratory-birds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through agreements with USFWS-Southwest Region, SIA Comanche Nation Ethno-Orintological Institute, and Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation, tribal inviduals are eligible to apply for non-eagle feathers, including feathers from hawks, falcons and other federally regulated migratory birds.
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