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		<title>Climate change, everyday life and will power</title>
		<link>http://earthonaplatter.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/climate-change-will-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kind of the equation of my life these days &#8211; study the socio-geo-political-physical state of  the climate on my finite planet, search for the ability to live outside of that work, and garner the will power to mash it together in a way that makes sense.
I am guilty, like most, of compartmentalizing the bits of my life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthonaplatter.wordpress.com&blog=5127914&post=255&subd=earthonaplatter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COP 15: Flash back to Rio Summit in 1992</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video clip was played during a youth delegate forum with panelists from around the world. The messaging transends borders and generations. It makes the goals for the negotiations seem simple: share with others, look after eachother and be responsible upon our fagile planet.

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		<title>Collapse pending? Put some money on it&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://earthonaplatter.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/collapse-pending-put-some-money-on-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are reasons to belive, as some do, that there are several factors that could lead to a collapse of western society. Jared Diamond, author of &#8220;Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed&#8220;, briefly outlines his theories, including the risks of poor resource management to sustaining our ways of life.

Part of his conclusion (in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthonaplatter.wordpress.com&blog=5127914&post=236&subd=earthonaplatter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mmmmm. Meat Free Mondays.</title>
		<link>http://earthonaplatter.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/mmmmm-meat-free-mondays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potatos&#8230; check. Green beans&#8230; check. Salad&#8230;. check. Big slab o beef&#8230;. check.
Growing up in a typical north american home with european ancestry, my parents aimed to provide us with &#8220;balanced&#8221; meals. However, if you were to evaluate each portion of the food types on the plate in terms of greenhouse gases&#8230; the meat tips the scale.
This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthonaplatter.wordpress.com&blog=5127914&post=228&subd=earthonaplatter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From oil fields to potato fields &#8211; rich grab poor land</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article published on the Guardian.co.uk titled &#8220;Fears for the world&#8217;s poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food&#8221;  The signal of human population and development thresholds rings loud in clear in this article which notes:
New reports from the UN and analysts in India, Washington and London estimate that at least 30m hectares [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthonaplatter.wordpress.com&blog=5127914&post=216&subd=earthonaplatter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heatwave &#8211; bottled water, air conditioners and climate change</title>
		<link>http://earthonaplatter.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/heatwave-bottled-water-air-conditioners-and-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week of plus 25 degree celcius weather is news on the west coast, which has been slow to see spring arrive this year. The morning news today reports that street vendors can&#8217;t keep bottled water in stock, air conditioner sales are up and forest fires are a concern. Slow news day.
I just found it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthonaplatter.wordpress.com&blog=5127914&post=206&subd=earthonaplatter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next steps to avert Earth 2100</title>
		<link>http://earthonaplatter.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/next-steps-to-avert-earth-2100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the experts say:

The first and most important thing to do is address our current method of powering our actions: redesign the energy system using new tehnologies such as wind, solar and fusion.
It will take tremendous commitment and sacrifice to do what is right for long term gain.
World leaders need to agree and take action [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthonaplatter.wordpress.com&blog=5127914&post=194&subd=earthonaplatter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth 2100 &#8211; A Reaction</title>
		<link>http://earthonaplatter.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/earth-2100-a-reaction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I received a phone call from my parents alerting me to an ABC special: a futurist environmental documentary drama called Earth 2100.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthonaplatter.wordpress.com&blog=5127914&post=192&subd=earthonaplatter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Climate Plan</title>
		<link>http://earthonaplatter.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/obamas-climate-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a follow up to my post on the &#8220;Earth 2100&#8243; ABC special about climate change and the future 100 years for our planet, a timely address from President Obama:
Obama&#8217;s Climate Plan
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		<title>Worldchanging: Bright Green: Recession and Innovation</title>
		<link>http://earthonaplatter.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/worldchanging-bright-green-recession-and-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Living simple is a paradigm shift&#8230; because our current paradigm involves living complex. And complex is resource intensive, difficult, and wasteful. Living simple contradicts the enlightenment notion that humankind is not successful unless it is making progress&#8230; and complexity seems to signal progress better than simplicity. I&#8217;d like to challenge this perspective&#8230; and I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=earthonaplatter.wordpress.com&blog=5127914&post=189&subd=earthonaplatter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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