<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Permaculture - Articles, Seeds</title><link>http://permaculture.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Permaculture - Articles, Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:45:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:36:14 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Pre Copenhagen Climate Justice Fast - 86 (28 from US, 20 from Australia) fast for Planet  </title><description><![CDATA["moral protest against climate inaction, and standing up for true climate justice. We call on both the global public and their political representatives to fulfil their moral responsibility to halt and reverse climate change"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/28/3559100-pre-copenhagen-climate-justice-fast-86-28-from-us-20-from-australia-fast-for-planet-</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/28/3559100-pre-copenhagen-climate-justice-fast-86-28-from-us-20-from-australia-fast-for-planet-</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:45:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Who owns the dead zone?</title><description><![CDATA[Agricultural pollution flowing out of the Midwest kills aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, with seafood harvesters and eaters paying the cost for this displaced cost of "cheap food."

By Krista Hozyash ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamela Drew]]></dc:creator><link>http://PamelaDrew.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/23/3536964-who-owns-the-dead-zone</link><guid>http://PamelaDrew.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/23/3536964-who-owns-the-dead-zone</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:51:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>MSM ignore Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan &amp; Climate Genocides</title><description><![CDATA[The terms "Afghan Holocaust", "Afghan Genocide" , Iraqi Holocaust", "Iraqi Genocide", "Palestinian Holocaust", "Palestinian Genocide", "Climate Holocaust" and "Climate Genocide" are absent on searching major MSM.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/22/3530422-msm-ignore-palestinian-iraqi-afghan-climate-genocides</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/22/3530422-msm-ignore-palestinian-iraqi-afghan-climate-genocides</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:53:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="/_vine/images/users/tn/gpolya/3530437.jpg" width="75" height="30" /></item><item><title>British PM Brown: UK faces a climate catastrophe of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves</title><description><![CDATA[UK PM Gordon Brown warns that Copenhagen negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse", telling the Major Economies Forum in London there was "no plan B". ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/19/3521627-british-pm-brown-uk-faces-a-climate-catastrophe-of-floods-droughts-and-killer-heatwaves</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/19/3521627-british-pm-brown-uk-faces-a-climate-catastrophe-of-floods-droughts-and-killer-heatwaves</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:38:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New Statesman Leader on Copenhagen: World leaders need to become green heroes too</title><description><![CDATA["heroes ...who  lead from the bottom up, corralling support for their cause by being passionate, committed and practically engaged. If the politicians can only delay and equivocate, we must take matters into our own hands."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/19/3520676-new-statesman-leader-on-copenhagen-world-leaders-need-to-become-green-heroes-too</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/19/3520676-new-statesman-leader-on-copenhagen-world-leaders-need-to-become-green-heroes-too</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:58:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sri Lanka Minister on First World &quot;Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism&quot;</title><description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Minister: "So in Copenhagen, developing countries will have a moral high ground... developed countries only have brute force and concepts like Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism. "]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3517635-sri-lanka-minister-on-first-world-climate-nazism-climate-racism-and-climate-terrorism</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3517635-sri-lanka-minister-on-first-world-climate-nazism-climate-racism-and-climate-terrorism</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:25:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Dr Lovelock: &quot;Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age&quot;</title><description><![CDATA[Lovelock: "We have enjoyed 12,000 years of climate peace since the last shift from a glacial age to an interglacial one. Before long, we may face planet-wide devastation worse even than unrestricted nuclear war ..."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3517588-dr-lovelock-climate-war-could-kill-nearly-all-of-us-leaving-survivors-in-the-stone-age</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3517588-dr-lovelock-climate-war-could-kill-nearly-all-of-us-leaving-survivors-in-the-stone-age</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:01:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Experts: GHG pollution 50% greater than thought, livestock give over 51%  of GHGs pa </title><description><![CDATA[World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3516590-experts-ghg-pollution-50-greater-than-thought-livestock-give-over-51-of-ghgs-pa-</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3516590-experts-ghg-pollution-50-greater-than-thought-livestock-give-over-51-of-ghgs-pa-</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:27:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Australians Face Reality On Sea-Level Rise - plus 1.1 meters means 2 million Oz refugees </title><description><![CDATA[Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3516530-australians-face-reality-on-sea-level-rise-plus-11-meters-means-2-million-oz-refugees-</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3516530-australians-face-reality-on-sea-level-rise-plus-11-meters-means-2-million-oz-refugees-</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:08:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use: The First Thirteen Years</title><description><![CDATA[Genetically-engineered corn, soybeans, and cotton now account for the majority of acres planted to these three crops. A model was developed that utilizes official, U.S.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3516413-impacts-of-genetically-engineered-crops-on-pesticide-use-the-first-thirteen-years</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/18/3516413-impacts-of-genetically-engineered-crops-on-pesticide-use-the-first-thirteen-years</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:26:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rudd Australian Government bows to pressure &amp; excludes agriculture emissions from ETS</title><description><![CDATA[According to this report from top newspaper The Age (Melbourne): "The Government will permanently exclude agricultural emissions and give farmers access to credits for good farming practices such as tree planting."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/15/3504586-rudd-australian-government-bows-to-pressure-excludes-agriculture-emissions-from-ets</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/15/3504586-rudd-australian-government-bows-to-pressure-excludes-agriculture-emissions-from-ets</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:34:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Tiny pesticide exposure during pregnancy can have long-term impact on female offspring | Rodale Institute</title><description><![CDATA[Study confirms chlorpyrifos levels far below "toxic" threshold can impair learning, change brain function and alter thyroid levels into adulthood for tested mice.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/15/3504307-tiny-pesticide-exposure-during-pregnancy-can-have-long-term-impact-on-female-offspring-rodale-institute</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/15/3504307-tiny-pesticide-exposure-during-pregnancy-can-have-long-term-impact-on-female-offspring-rodale-institute</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:43:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Turning Desert into a Garden/Food Forest</title><description><![CDATA[About two kilometers from the Dead Sea and two from where Jesus was christened, in the country of Jordan, Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute and his crew created a near miracle turning desert into a lush permaculture garden.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Benno Hansen]]></dc:creator><link>http://benno.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/15/3503725-turning-desert-into-a-gardenfood-forest</link><guid>http://benno.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/15/3503725-turning-desert-into-a-gardenfood-forest</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:09:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Urinate in the open and save the planet the British way </title><description><![CDATA[If you thought peeing in public was a complete nuisance, think again. Pick your spot wisely and you may be helping save the world.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nearing]]></dc:creator><link>http://nearing.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/14/3502300-urinate-in-the-open-and-save-the-planet-the-british-way-</link><guid>http://nearing.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/14/3502300-urinate-in-the-open-and-save-the-planet-the-british-way-</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:29:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Cinderella fruit: Wild delicacies become cash crops</title><description><![CDATA[IF YOU had come here 10 years ago, says Thaddeus Salah as he shows us round his tree nursery in north-west Cameroon, you would have seen real hunger and poverty.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[luckydog]]></dc:creator><link>http://luckydog.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/11/3488262-cinderella-fruit-wild-delicacies-become-cash-crops</link><guid>http://luckydog.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/11/3488262-cinderella-fruit-wild-delicacies-become-cash-crops</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:07:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Building With Whole Trees</title><description><![CDATA[ROALD GUNDERSEN, an architect who may revolutionize the building industry, shinnied up a slender white ash near his house here on a recent afternoon, hoisting himself higher and higher until the limber trunk began to bend slowly toward the forest floor... ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[luckydog]]></dc:creator><link>http://luckydog.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/05/3465412-building-with-whole-trees</link><guid>http://luckydog.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/05/3465412-building-with-whole-trees</guid><pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:53:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution: Victoria dirtiest state in one of dirtiest countries, Australia</title><description><![CDATA[Home to three of Australia's four dirtiest power stations and none of the 12 biggest renewable energy plants... less than 2 per cent of electricity clean ... brown coal accounted for 94 per cent of electricity, with gas 4 per cent.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/03/3457179-greenhouse-gas-ghg-pollution-victoria-dirtiest-state-in-one-of-dirtiest-countries-australia</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/03/3457179-greenhouse-gas-ghg-pollution-victoria-dirtiest-state-in-one-of-dirtiest-countries-australia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:21:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Oz Government CSIRO bid to GAG top economist's attack on Obama-style carbon ETS</title><description><![CDATA[The taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based  ETS approach]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/02/3451721-oz-government-csiro-bid-to-gag-top-economists-attack-on-obama-style-carbon-ets</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/02/3451721-oz-government-csiro-bid-to-gag-top-economists-attack-on-obama-style-carbon-ets</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:26:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Worsening Australian Timor Sea oil spill disaster - fire breaks out on leaking Oz oil rig</title><description><![CDATA[Fire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/01/3449698-worsening-australian-timor-sea-oil-spill-disaster-fire-breaks-out-on-leaking-oz-oil-rig</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/01/3449698-worsening-australian-timor-sea-oil-spill-disaster-fire-breaks-out-on-leaking-oz-oil-rig</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:09:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) back Direct Carbon Pricing + Revenue Recycling </title><description><![CDATA[Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing, with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/31/3447492-progressive-democrats-of-america-pda-back-direct-carbon-pricing-revenue-recycling-</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/31/3447492-progressive-democrats-of-america-pda-back-direct-carbon-pricing-revenue-recycling-</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:06:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Roy: &quot;The heart of India is under attack&quot; in state violence-backed corporate land grab</title><description><![CDATA[Shocking report by prize-winning Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy about the corporate land grab in India that has put millions of desperate people against the wall - "mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/31/3447277-roy-the-heart-of-india-is-under-attack-in-state-violence-backed-corporate-land-grab</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/31/3447277-roy-the-heart-of-india-is-under-attack-in-state-violence-backed-corporate-land-grab</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:23:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Potato Underground</title><description><![CDATA[When Jerry LeBourdais learned that big agribusiness couldn't handle the Cariboo potato, he knew he'd found a variety that he wanted to support. The name didn't hurt either.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[alkimija]]></dc:creator><link>http://alkimija.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/30/3443235-the-potato-underground</link><guid>http://alkimija.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/30/3443235-the-potato-underground</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:03:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Maldives President: save us from global warming -  today to US  means tomorrow to YOU</title><description><![CDATA["It is important to defend the Maldives which is on the frontline of climate change. If it can happen today to our nation, tomorrow it can happen with you as well...climate change is happening and the world is going to end."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/28/3436119-maldives-president-save-us-from-global-warming-today-to-us-means-tomorrow-to-you</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/28/3436119-maldives-president-save-us-from-global-warming-today-to-us-means-tomorrow-to-you</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:05:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>&quot;We should be terrified&quot;: Top Scientists' 350 ppm CO2 by 2050  Too Ambitious, Say MPs</title><description><![CDATA[Faced with Dr Fankhauser's 350 ppm CO2 proposal MP Barry Gardiner, asked the 120 legislators present whether they believed limiting CO2 concentration to 350 ppm by 2050 was practicable. Only two said yes. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/27/3432239-we-should-be-terrified-top-scientists-350-ppm-co2-by-2050-too-ambitious-say-mps</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/27/3432239-we-should-be-terrified-top-scientists-350-ppm-co2-by-2050-too-ambitious-say-mps</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:41:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Are we now experiencing global cooling?</title><description><![CDATA[The skeptic argument...

"Global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable." (source: Henrik Svensmark)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nearing]]></dc:creator><link>http://nearing.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/27/3431942-are-we-now-experiencing-global-cooling</link><guid>http://nearing.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/27/3431942-are-we-now-experiencing-global-cooling</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:22:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>