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 <title><![CDATA[UK species continue to decline - does it matter & what can we do?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Dr Tony Whitbread tells the Ecologist why, despite serious declines in much of Britain's wildlife, he remains optimistic that nature conservation can provide the tools to reverse these negative trends......]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Clothing Industry: Modern day attitudes akin to those of historical slavery]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:14 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Bangladesh factory collapse Sarah Compson implores us all as consumers to take responsibility for what we wear and not to turn a blind eye.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Connecting the Dots: the Big Permaculture Picture]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:30 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Wickremer explains why he believes permaculture offers multiple answers to societal and environmental problems in a beautifully simple and effective way.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Fencing plan in South America threatens wildlife]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:10 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[British Adventure Ecologists Katharine and David Lowrie ask whether there is an alternative to this silent massacre......]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bees with Alzheimer’s – the price of pesticides]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Pat Thomas on why me must continue to fight against excessive pesticide use, for the sake of both humans and bees.......]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Climate Change is doing our heads in]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:08 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Pat Thomas takes a look at one of the less discussed aspects of climate change - its impact on the human psyche.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Shades of gray: celebrity killing, Yellowstone wolves in the firing line]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:19 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In the lead up to broadcast of the next Link TV/Ecologist film, Shades of Gray, Jim Wickens continues to look at the thorny issues surrounding wolf culling in the US   ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Shades of gray: shedding new light on the Rocky Mountain wolf wars]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In the lead up to broadcast of the next Link TV/Ecologist film, Shades of Gray, Jim Wickens introduces the thorny issues surrounding wolf culling in the US   ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Horsegate - we're busy doing nothing]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:22 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[“We’re busy doing nothing, working the whole day through, trying to find lots of things not to do...” <br/>]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Running into the Grassland Queen of Patagonia]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:48 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[British Adventure Ecologists Katharine and David Lowrie share their experience of meeting Patagonia's own “Grassland Queen”........]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Brazil's hidden horrors]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Rachel Baird opens our eyes to the dark side of Brazil, where fighting for your rights, and the rights of others, can be a battle with fatal consequences.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hope hangs in the balance in Sumatra.    ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:46 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Clare Kendall revisits a rainforest conservation project that had initially filled her with hope, and finds to her dismay that the outlook for this unique initiative may now be bleak....]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Conservation in the Mountains of Uganda]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Disregarding African people in favour of their wildlife will only defeat our conservation objectives because the future of the continent’s protected areas is entirely in their hands, warns gorilla conservationist, Greg Cummings]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Connected Gatherings]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Over the course of a weekend ecologist and blogger Hugh Warwick had two amazing experiences: One was a gathering of naturalists and artists at the New Networks for Nature, the other a flashmob of protesters at the British Museum. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Strawberries....from Greenland?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[I don't want to be told that thanks to Global Warming - now accepted by the majority (77%) of Americans and so therefore, in my opinion, a new Tipping Point - strawberry plants can now survive a Greenland winter.<br/>]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Coping With Bereavement: One Year On]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[On 20th September 2011 at approximately 6.55pm my mother died, 6 months after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Her death was a blessing. Watching Mum slowly deteriorate was a painful experience, but one that opened my eyes and my heart to the meaning of life.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Independent living in Canada]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:11 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Eagle Gamma profiles an ethnographer who chose life off-the-grid, and found true independence.....]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Indonesia's Sumatran tiger threatened by development of last jungle strongholds]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[As politicians encourage development around the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Dr. Julian Bloomer explores how the area's endangered species can be protected]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Creating the future: How 'Zero Carbon Britain' is inspiring positivity in today's artists]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:45 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The Centre for Alternative Technology's Emergence Summit must develop positive versions of the future, as if we can't imagine it - there won't be one, says Paul Allen]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Texaco's pollution of Ecuador's indigenous lands brought to light in new DVD]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Nicola Peel talks about her new DVD, Blood of the Amazon, telling of her travels through the rainforest and her investigations on the effects of reckless oil drilling on indigenous communities]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Why Aren’t My Fellow Americans Doing More Recycling?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:36 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Grace Lee has just spent a month in Seoul, South Korea working as an intern for the Resource Recirculation Management Division under the Climate Change and Environment Bureau of Seoul City Hall. Here’s what she has to say to her fellow US citizens about their domestic waste…]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Cinderella economy: an answer to unsustainable growth?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:06 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[As worldwide Governments blindly attempt to support unlimited growth using limited resources, Tim Jackson believes the answer to true sustainability may lie on the economy's fringes]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Olympic organisers LOCOG critiscised over sustainability choices]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:29 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[How did BP and EDF ever become the London 2012 Olympics sustainability partners? Mark Gee says he is at a loss to understand]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Greening my office: choosing an ethical pension]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Sylvia takes a step towards financial security with her premier pension payment. But can she keep a clean conscience at the same time?]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: creating a fashion for guilt-free fur]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:56 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Can fashion fur be guilt free? A project in Louisiana believes the answer is yes - if you are wearing swamp rat]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Living on the edge on Nantucket Island in the US]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:07 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Homes are being moved and maps redrawn as coastal erosion eats away at an island off Massachusetts<br/>]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: sea level rise threatens the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:43 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Rising sea levels are forcing the migration of indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found in the Orinoco Delta near the coast of Venezuela]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Greening my office: can't we all just go camping instead of jetting off overseas?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:43 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[As her colleagues jet off to sunnier climes, Sylvia tackles the thorny issue of eco holidays - but will she pluck up the courage to confront her boss over his second home?]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Life without supermarkets: community action is the best way to beat them]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:48 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A hypermarket victory in Hackney demonstrates how local groups can help protect community shops...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Belo Monte dam the start of the drowning of the Amazon]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:12 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Campaigners fear the construction of the world's third largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil is just the start with many more being planned in the Amazon basin]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Guyana using mangroves to defend itself from sea-level rises]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:59 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Global sea level rise poses a big challenge for the small country of Guyana but mangrove planting offers a cost-effective way of protecting coastal regions]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Life without supermarkets: forget posh organic shops; check out food co-ops]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[To keep prices down, Laura shops around and gives food co-ops a whirl... ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:31 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[How Cargill is feeding Europe's meat demands at the expense of the Amazon]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Europe's demand for cheap meat is been fed by an increasing demand for soya feed from the Amazon but it comes at a cost - deforestation]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Water buffalo making no friends on Amazon floodplain ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Water buffalo may not be the most pressing threat to the Amazon as a whole but on the river’s floodplain they are doing serious damage]]></description>
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