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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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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>Proposed Alaska Coal Mine Divides Community, Elicits Racism</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/21/proposed-coal-mine-divides-an-alaska-community-elicits-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/21/proposed-coal-mine-divides-an-alaska-community-elicits-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wishbone Hills coal mine, a controversial project proposed by the Usibelli Mine Company five miles west of the small community of Sutton, Alaska, and Chickaloon Village of the Chickaloon Tribe, is driving a wedge between local community members.]]></description>
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		<title>Olympia&#8217;s Deschutes River Restoration Rare Opportunity to Revive a  Puget Sound Estuary</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/27/olympias-deschutes-river-restoration-offers-rare-opportunity-to-revive-a-puget-sound-estuary/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/27/olympias-deschutes-river-restoration-offers-rare-opportunity-to-revive-a-puget-sound-estuary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitol Lake in Olympia, Wash., is a human creation that disrupted the biologically rich Deschutes tidal basin in 1951. Its stagnant waters attract invasive plants and animals, and harbor unsafe levels of E.coli. Fishing, swimming, and boating is no longer allowed. Restoring the estuary is still debated.]]></description>
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		<title>Fever. Climate Stories from Indigenous Communities</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/fever-and-conversations-with-the-earth-bring-climate-stories-from-indigenous-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/fever-and-conversations-with-the-earth-bring-climate-stories-from-indigenous-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life Mosaic, and Conversations With the Earth make possible films produced by indigenous communities that describe modern day climate changes from their unique ancestral perspective. How they use age-old knowledge to meet the challenges of a climate in change should interest communities around the globe.]]></description>
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		<title>Philanthropists and Indigenous Leaders Talk Solutions to World&#8217;s Pressing Issues</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Influential philanthropists and Indigenous leaders met last month at the tenth conference of the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, and came up with innovative solutions based on thousands of years of ancestral knowledge to some of the world's most pressing problems.]]></description>
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		<title>High PCB Levels Persist in Akwesasne Mohawk Fish, Lands, and People</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/12/high-pcb-levels-akwesasne-and-mohawk-people/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/12/high-pcb-levels-akwesasne-and-mohawk-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Industrial facilities built on the St. Lawrence River in the 50s turned a toxic tide on the Mohawk people of Akwesasne in central New York. Their young adults have twice the levels of polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs) as the U.S. national average. PCBs are linked to thyroid dysfunction, autoimmune disorders, and lower testosterone levels. ]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Peoples of Africa the Focus of Second Congressional Human Rights Meeting</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/10/indigenous-peoples-of-africa-the-focus-of-second-congressional-human-rights-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/10/indigenous-peoples-of-africa-the-focus-of-second-congressional-human-rights-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second in a series of unprecedented meetings hosted by the U.S. Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will focus solely on the rights of Indigenous Peoples of Africa, just as they emerge into the social consensus of several African states after their very existence was denied for decades. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Year After BP Oil Disaster, Gulf Coast Tribespeople Face Changed Lives</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/21/bp-oil-disaster-one-year-later-gulf-coast-tribes-look-at-changed-way-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/21/bp-oil-disaster-one-year-later-gulf-coast-tribes-look-at-changed-way-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The centuries old lifeways for the descendents of the region's earliest inhabitants of Louisian's Gulf Coast is eroding. The BP oil spill was the worst environmental disaster in the history of the U.S., and has destroyed jobs, curtailed seafood consumption, and harmed human health.]]></description>
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		<title>Who Merits Wikipedia? Twice Deleted Native American Journalists Association Wants to Know</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/what-merits-inclusion-in-wikipedia-twice-deleted-native-american-journalists-association-wants-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/what-merits-inclusion-in-wikipedia-twice-deleted-native-american-journalists-association-wants-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia celebrated its tenth anniversary in January. That same month, Wikipedia administrators deleted the entry for the Native American Journalists Association. For the second time.]]></description>
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		<title>Unethical U.S. Medical Studies Still a Possibility, Bioethicists Say</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/08/08-unethical-u-s-medical-studies-could-happen-today/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/08/08-unethical-u-s-medical-studies-could-happen-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bioethicists advise Obama's Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues that medical experiments like the recently uncovered unethical medical research that was done to 1,500 Guatemalan people could still happen today, and on U.S. soil.]]></description>
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		<title>Help Strengthen Environmental News Reporting: Support SEJ</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/27/26-help-strengthen-environmental-news-reporting-support-sej/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/27/26-help-strengthen-environmental-news-reporting-support-sej/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's the Society of Environmental Journalist's 20th anniversary! By donating $20 you support their members as they strive to produce the highest quality investigative environmental journalism.]]></description>
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		<title>Palm oil in everyday products pushing Indigenous Peoples off their land</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/20/20-palm-oil-in-everyday-products-pushing-indigenous-peoples-off-their-land/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/20/20-palm-oil-in-everyday-products-pushing-indigenous-peoples-off-their-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palm oil used in many foods is the cause of murders and the eviction of thousands from their lands. Now, the hunter-gatherer tribes in Malaysia are under threat from newly proposed palm oil plantations.]]></description>
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		<title>Job Well Done? Cancún Agreements Get Mixed Response From Indigenous Peoples</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/15/cancun-job-well-done-indigenous-peoples-mixed/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/15/cancun-job-well-done-indigenous-peoples-mixed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 'Cancun Agreements' negotiated by delegates are hailed as a balanced package. But Bolivia dissented, saying they want deeper cuts in emissions by the rich nations, who they accused of genocidal policies costing 30,000 lives a year.]]></description>
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		<title>“Voices” for Mother Earth Ejected from Climate Convention</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/10/voices-wfor-mother-earth-ejected-from-climate-convention/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/10/voices-wfor-mother-earth-ejected-from-climate-convention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Impromptu protest inside the halls of the UN Climate Convention during La Via Campesina's "1000 Cancúns Global Day of Action for Climate Justice,” resulted in the ejection of indigenous and environmental leaders. ]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Has Rights, Says Report Released During COP16</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/07/07-nature-has-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/07/07-nature-has-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous peoples]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report released in Cancun during the climate talks, "Does Nature Have Rights: Transforming Grassroots Organizing to Protect People and the Planet," looks at the rights of nature in approaches to climate change.]]></description>
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		<title>Portraits of Resilience: &#8220;&#8230;that old sea wall is no longer there&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/06/04-portraits-of-resilience/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/06/04-portraits-of-resilience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability | resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fiji]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shishmaref]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children in regions affected by climate change use photography to bring their voices, and personal stories to the attention of the public. It is important that the world see not only the effects of climate change but also the efforts people are making to combat and adapt to it.]]></description>
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		<title>La Via Campesina: COP16 is doomed to failure</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/01/01-la-via-campesina-cop16-is-doomed-to-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/01/01-la-via-campesina-cop16-is-doomed-to-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news releases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alberto Gomez, La Via Campesina's international coordinator said the COP16 is seen as a failure that will affect the future of humanity.]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Ecological Knowledge Can Guide Community Adaptation and Resilience</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/24/traditional-ecological-knowledge-can-guide-community-adaptation-and-resilience/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/24/traditional-ecological-knowledge-can-guide-community-adaptation-and-resilience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability | resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traditional knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dennis martinez]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terri hansen]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mother-earth-journal.com/?p=3560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the face of coming climatic changes Traditional Ecological Knowledge, the collection of botanical, zoological, hydrological, cultural, and geographical knowhow rooted in the spirit, culture and language of a given community, developed over time, can guide tribal and other communities in adapting and creating resilient communities. ]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Peoples, Peasant Farmers, World Leaders Readying for Cancun</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/23/23-climate-summit-cancun/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/23/23-climate-summit-cancun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 200 world leaders will meet in Cancun for the UN Climate Summit Nov. 28 to Dec. 10, while La Via Campesina is bringing in thousands: farmers, landless, Indigenous Peoples and activists to propose solutions. Caravans are en route from Latin America, the U.S. and Canada, and people are coming in from Europe. ]]></description>
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		<title>New documents reveal Canadian efforts to kill climate policies in other countries</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/22/22-report-reveals-canadian-efforts-to-kill-climate-policies-in-other-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/22/22-report-reveals-canadian-efforts-to-kill-climate-policies-in-other-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate action group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate deniers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty tricks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Climate Action Network released documents revealing that Canada established an “Oil Sands Advocacy Strategy” in the Dept. of Foreign Affairs, with federal officials systematically trying to kill clean energy and climate change policies in other countries to promote the interests of oil companies.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Refugees &#8211; the Documentary</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/22/14-climate-refugees-documentary/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/22/14-climate-refugees-documentary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[book reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[disasters]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mother-earth-journal.com/?p=3524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the documentary film "Climate Refugees," climate-induced environmental disasters will, and is now resulting in unlivable homelands and climate refugees, leading to a mass global migration that threatens the lives of millions of people, as well as national and worldwide security.]]></description>
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		<title>Internews Plays Key Role in Bringing News of Climate Change Conference to the World</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/22/24-internews-news-of-climate-change-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/22/24-internews-news-of-climate-change-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mother-earth-journal.com/?p=3622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To improve accurate, thoughtful coverage of climate change, Internews Network is helping audiences in the U.S. and the developing world, where environmental change hits hardest, get the news from the UN Climate Summit in Cancun.]]></description>
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		<title>In Long Line of Insults, Botswana Minister of Environment Disparages Kalahari Bushmen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/10/10-botswana-minister-of-environment-disparages-bushmen/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/10/10-botswana-minister-of-environment-disparages-bushmen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous peoples]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[land]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Botswana Minister of Environment Kitso Mokaila tells press, "I don't believe you would want to see your own kind living in the dark ages in the middle of nowhere as a choice, when you know that the world has moved forward and has become so technological."]]></description>
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		<title>Onondaga Nation of Iroquois Confederacy Takes On Fracking</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/09/08-onondaga-nation-of-iroquois-confederacy-fracking/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/09/08-onondaga-nation-of-iroquois-confederacy-fracking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Onondaga Nation, long healers of the environment, face a new threat as gas and oil companies target the gas rich Marcellus shale for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Knowledge Holders: Protecting Intellectual Property and Maintaining Biological Diversity</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/08/08-aaas-handbook-for-traditional-knowledge-holders-to-protecting-intellectual-property-and-maintaining-biological-diversity/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/08/08-aaas-handbook-for-traditional-knowledge-holders-to-protecting-intellectual-property-and-maintaining-biological-diversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[traditional knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biopatents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biopiracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terri hansen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AAAS Project on Traditional Ecological Knowledge offers handbook to aid traditional knowledge holders in making intellectual property protection options more comprehensible. ]]></description>
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		<title>Biopiracy Agreement A Surprise Success</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/07/biopiracy-agreement-a-surprise-success/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/07/biopiracy-agreement-a-surprise-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 04:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Nagoya Protocol at COP10, formalizing rules for achieving the fair sharing of benefits from genetic resources. It's considered one of the most important measures ever taken against biopiracy by delegates and NGOs.]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Diamonds Boycotted Due to Mistreatment of Kalahari Bushmen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/03/blood-diamonds-boycotted/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/03/blood-diamonds-boycotted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters spurn blood diamonds and tourism to Botswana over mistreatment of the Kalahari Bushmen, initially evicted to make way for diamond mining then denied access to their well water or right to hunt on their homelands.]]></description>
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		<title>Indians Demand Answers as Amazon is Sold</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/10/28/indians-demand-answers-as-amazon-is-sold/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/10/28/indians-demand-answers-as-amazon-is-sold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peru's latest Amazon land auction to foreign oil companies has been challenged by indigenous groups after it emerged that they may not have been consulted before their lands were sold.]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Accepts, and Minimizes Reference to UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/10/27/canada-accepts-and-minimizes-reference-to-un-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/10/27/canada-accepts-and-minimizes-reference-to-un-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deluged by increasing international criticism, the Canadian government agreed to a minimal “noting” of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the preamble of the draft Protocol on access and benefit sharing from the use of genetic resources being negotiated in Nagoya.]]></description>
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		<title>Native American Issues Get Substantive Focus At SEJ Conference</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/10/20/18-society-of-environmental-journalists-20-annual-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/10/20/18-society-of-environmental-journalists-20-annual-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dawn stover]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn’t think of any better way for the Society of Environmental Journalists to start their annual conference than what unfolded at the opening reception. After delicious dinner fare both local and sustainable, a drum was carried onstage. Not just any drum.]]></description>
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