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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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 <title><![CDATA[Life without supermarkets: escaping choice overload]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Laura Laker discovers the joys of farmers' markets, the convenience of vegboxes, and the horror of plans for a nearby Tesco Metro that will threaten her local corner shop]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Greening my office: an award for recycling is a nonsense]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:09 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Sylvia is riled when her distinctly un-environmentally-friendly office receives a recycling award from a dubious source...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Committing to a life without supermarkets]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[No-one enjoys supermarket shopping. But kicking the habit requires conviction, as Laura Laker reveals in the first of a new series...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Greening my office: tackling the meat question...]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 15:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Sylvia uses a team lunch outing as a chance to quiz her colleagues on their views on vegetarianism and eating less meat ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[I did London to Sydney without flying. Here's how]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:09 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Our well-grounded Kiwi reflects on his six month (almost flightless) odyssey from London to New Zealand, and answers all the usual questions on travel without wings]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Recessions are unsustainable, but they sure cut emissions]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The dramatic cuts in UK emissions suggested by the Government's preliminary figures are staggering - but we would be wrong to celebrate them]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Greening my office: tacking the microwave meal]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:24 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Sylvia's office gets a new, green employee, and she begins to hatch plans for changing her ready-meal-eating, email-printing, energy-burning colleagues...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Greening my office: no one’s switched on ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:54 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In her second blog posting, young environmental pretender Sylvia Sunshine reports on her attempts to convert her office workplace to more sustainable practices]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: How sea level rises are poisoning water in Ghana]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:15 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In the latest blog the Atlantic Rising team look at how rising sea levels are poisoning local water sources in Western Ghana]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Is the climate change movement splintering?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:52 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Climate change activists are regrouping post-Copenhagen – and some are reasserting their radical roots]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Greening my office: these guys print everything]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:30 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In the first of a new blog, young environmental pretender Sylvia Sunshine reports on her attempts to convert her office workplace to more sustainable practices]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[I failed. I caught a plane]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Thousands of miles by train, coach, bus, boat and foot and, at the last hurdle, Ewan finds that there's no way to cross the Tasman Sea except on metal wings...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Ghana's slums recycle Western waste]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The slums of Accra in Ghana are being used as a dumping ground for Western consumer waste, including toxic electrical components.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: State of the fishing industry in Ghana]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Unsustainable fishing practices and declining catches are forcing Ghana to start importing fish]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Ghana's flood defense plans unfinished]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:31 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[An ambitious sea defence scheme in Ghana could have been successful but the job is not finished and thousands of homes still flood annually]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Liberia faces choice between deforestation and REDD]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:27 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[If alternatives to deforestation like REDD do not arrive soon Liberia's remaining rainforest cover is likely to go the same way as its neighbours in Cote d'Ivoire]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Sand extraction and coastal erosion in Sierra Leone]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Unregulated sand extraction in Sierra Leone is good for business but wreaks havoc on the coastal environment]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bali to Australia by catamaran]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:52 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Though it was slow, choppy, wet and tiring, Ewan looks back on his wind-powered crossing to Australia as an experience worth every minute]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Copenhagen: concession and compromise]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:59 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Climate negotiations are always a balancing act. But the global atmosphere is not a politician, and it won't forgive us if we get this wrong]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Life in a flooded slum in Freetown]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:15 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Most people love their home town. But what if you lived in a regularly flooded slum?]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Atlantic Rising: Why Sierra Leone will be screwed at COP15]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:23 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The costs associated with sending delegates to a conference like Copenhagen are prohibitive for many countries]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Are you an overland traveller?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Ewan discovers that 'overland traveller' has become something of a category, but one into which he's happy to fit]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Shame on the 'climategate' scientists]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:25 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Ecologist Editor Mark Anslow explores the fallout from the leaked email exchanges between climate scientists]]></description>
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