<?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/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><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 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:14:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:52:17 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>A New Group on Oligarchy and another on a Progressive Candidate with Integrity--Please Join, Vote Up, and Comment (POLLS)</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The nation is clearly tired of Tweedledee and Tweedledum.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[truthlover]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[truthlover]]></source><link>http://truthlover.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/08/10051625-a-new-group-on-oligarchy-and-another-on-a-progressive-candidate-with-integrity-please-join-vote-up-and-comment-polls</link><guid>http://truthlover.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/08/10051625-a-new-group-on-oligarchy-and-another-on-a-progressive-candidate-with-integrity-please-join-vote-up-and-comment-polls</guid><category>politics</category><category>presidental-candidate</category><pubDate>Sun, 8 Jan 2012 17:09:40 +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></item><item><title>Durban: Planning the Green Climate Fund so it works for African farmers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Niggol Seo (Research Fellow, Climate Change Economics, Sydney University) on the Durban Climate Change Conference outcome: "With long odds against a major breakthrough on a global mitigation policy, the Conference took important steps towards the &ldquo;Green Climate Fund&rdquo;.&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/15/9462120-durban-planning-the-green-climate-fund-so-it-works-for-african-farmers</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/15/9462120-durban-planning-the-green-climate-fund-so-it-works-for-african-farmers</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>africa</category><category>obama</category><category>china</category><category>america</category><category>un</category><category>climate</category><category>agriculture</category><category>carbon</category><category>co2</category><category>agw</category><category>ghg</category><category>durban</category><category>cop17</category><category>green-climate-fund</category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:14:21 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=gpolya9578F557-0FAC-CA97-EFA6-13894E640734.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=gpolya9578F557-0FAC-CA97-EFA6-13894E640734.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>The bugs that ate Monsanto | Grist</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Monsanto's denial of reality in favor of its bottom line, while a practice now commonplace in corporate America, will have repercussions beyond industrial agriculture.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[miasma]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[miasma]]></source><link>http://miasma.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/13/9420565-the-bugs-that-ate-monsanto-grist</link><guid>http://miasma.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/13/9420565-the-bugs-that-ate-monsanto-grist</guid><category>business</category><category>epa</category><category>gmo</category><category>monsanto</category><category>usda</category><category>resistance</category><category>insects</category><category>bt</category><category>round-up</category><category>superweeds</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:26:30 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=miasma9152271D-AEED-2F89-3E04-E613CB69F4EA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="100" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=miasma9152271D-AEED-2F89-3E04-E613CB69F4EA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="180" ></media:content></item><item><title>EXCLUSIVE: Under Industry Pressure, USDA Works to Speed Approval of Monsanto&amp;#039;s Genetically Engineered Crops | Truthout</title>
<description><![CDATA[For years, biotech agriculture opponents have accused regulators of working too closely with big biotech firms when deregulating genetically engineered (GE) crops.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen-one shot-one kill]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Stephen-one shot-one kill]]></source><link>http://Stephen3100047.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/12/9393479-exclusive-under-industry-pressure-usda-works-to-speed-approval-of-monsantos-genetically-engineered-crops-truthout</link><guid>http://Stephen3100047.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/12/9393479-exclusive-under-industry-pressure-usda-works-to-speed-approval-of-monsantos-genetically-engineered-crops-truthout</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:03:19 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Stephen31000475F6EBB6A-6A5E-7D9A-505F-E80A1AED584E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="136" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Stephen31000475F6EBB6A-6A5E-7D9A-505F-E80A1AED584E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="240" ></media:content></item><item><title>Oz Greens: Murray-Darling plan ignores, science, numbers &amp; environment</title>
<description><![CDATA[Senator Sarah Hanson-Young: "The  draft plan [for the Murray-Darling, Australia's biggest river system] recovers less than 2800 gigalitres for the  environment, when  independent scientists and other environmental  experts say a minimum of  4000 is needed to keep it alive.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/28/9074631-oz-greens-murray-darling-plan-ignores-science-numbers-environment</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/28/9074631-oz-greens-murray-darling-plan-ignores-science-numbers-environment</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>obama</category><category>australia</category><category>america</category><category>water</category><category>labor</category><category>carbon</category><category>co2</category><category>agw</category><category>coalition</category><category>ghg</category><category>greens</category><category>lib-labs</category><category>murray-darling</category><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:38:31 +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>Climate crisis:Talking about geo-engineering may prevent us needing it</title>
<description><![CDATA[Profesro David Karoly (top climate scientist, University of Melbourne) in reviewing geo-engineering possibilities&nbsp; to tackle climate change: "With carbon dioxide emissions tracking at the high end of predictions (and beyond)  and the impacts of climate change becoming cleare&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/24/9004835-climate-crisistalking-about-geo-engineering-may-prevent-us-needing-it</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/24/9004835-climate-crisistalking-about-geo-engineering-may-prevent-us-needing-it</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>obama</category><category>australia</category><category>america</category><category>carbon</category><category>co2</category><category>greenhouse</category><category>agw</category><category>mitigation</category><category>geo-engineering</category><category>adaption</category><category>karoly</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:26:22 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=gpolya2A7C3F51-836D-5FA0-C023-AB41F515F4F7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=gpolya2A7C3F51-836D-5FA0-C023-AB41F515F4F7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="285" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>Can 1 Miracle Plant Solve the World's 3 Greatest Problems?</title>
<description><![CDATA[If someone were to tell you that they had a technology &mdash; a weed  actually &mdash; that could sequester huge amounts of carbon permanently while  lifting villagers out of poverty by providing both protein-rich food  and super-insulated building materials, you might start to &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Bartholomew]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Robert Bartholomew]]></source><link>http://RobertBartholomew.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/16/8834384-can-1-miracle-plant-solve-the-worlds-3-greatest-problems</link><guid>http://RobertBartholomew.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/16/8834384-can-1-miracle-plant-solve-the-worlds-3-greatest-problems</guid><category>environment</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:16:07 +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>Prominent Science Skeptic of Global Warming finds he now agrees global warming is real - Yahoo! News</title>
<description><![CDATA[The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming  deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[truthlover]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[truthlover]]></source><link>http://truthlover.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/30/8550919-prominent-science-skeptic-of-global-warming-finds-he-now-agrees-global-warming-is-real-yahoo-news</link><guid>http://truthlover.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/30/8550919-prominent-science-skeptic-of-global-warming-finds-he-now-agrees-global-warming-is-real-yahoo-news</guid><category>environment</category><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:06:15 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null15D02183-2920-4615-40DB-8C8B242201B1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null15D02183-2920-4615-40DB-8C8B242201B1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ></media:content></item><item><title>Premature births 30% higher in cities because of pollution</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Expectant mothers living in large towns or cities are a third more likely to give birth prematurely because of pollution, research suggests.
Traffic fumes are the biggest culprit, with chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), a by-product of petrol, producing a&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sautter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Michael Sautter]]></source><link>http://michaelsautter.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/07/8207343-premature-births-30-higher-in-cities-because-of-pollution</link><guid>http://michaelsautter.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/07/8207343-premature-births-30-higher-in-cities-because-of-pollution</guid><category>health</category><category>pollution</category><category>premature</category><category>births</category><pubDate>Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:41:55 +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>Australian environment politics: &quot;Greens should come out of the forest&quot;&quot; </title>
<description><![CDATA[John Matthews (a strategist and writer): "The Greens need a brand that is less about trees and more about people.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/04/8152597-australian-environment-politics-greens-should-come-out-of-the-forest</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/04/8152597-australian-environment-politics-greens-should-come-out-of-the-forest</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>europe</category><category>australia</category><category>liberal</category><category>labor</category><category>socialism</category><category>brown</category><category>co2</category><category>greenhouse</category><category>warming</category><category>coalition</category><category>ghg</category><category>greens</category><category>carbon-tax</category><category>envionrment</category><pubDate>Tue, 4 Oct 2011 22:27:47 +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>U.S.: Battle Escalates Against Genetically Modified Crops</title>
<description><![CDATA[
At the heart of this struggle is the debate about genetically  modified organisms (GMOs), which were given the green light in 1990  when the U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/01/8082106-us-battle-escalates-against-genetically-modified-crops</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/01/8082106-us-battle-escalates-against-genetically-modified-crops</guid><category>environment</category><category>fda</category><category>organic</category><category>epa</category><category>lobbying</category><category>gmo</category><category>monsanto</category><category>chemical</category><category>dow</category><category>usda</category><category>biotech</category><category>dupont</category><category>pesticide</category><category>bayer</category><category>syngenta</category><category>farmers-markets</category><category>genetically-engineered-food</category><category>cooperatives</category><category>ge-food</category><category>food-and-water-watch</category><category>fww</category><category>mono-crops</category><pubDate>Sat, 1 Oct 2011 17:03:16 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null-null953B17FC-C9D6-9FFD-1AF6-6A360921042F.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null-null953B17FC-C9D6-9FFD-1AF6-6A360921042F.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="300" ></media:content></item><item><title>Super Weeds Pose Growing Threat to U.S. Crops</title>
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PAOLA, Kansas (Reuters) - Farmer Mark Nelson bends down and yanks a four-foot-tall weed from his northeast Kansas soybean field. The "waterhemp" towers above his beans, sucking up the soil moisture and nutrients his beans need to grow well and reducing the ultimate yield.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/20/7859503-super-weeds-pose-growing-threat-to-us-crops</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/20/7859503-super-weeds-pose-growing-threat-to-us-crops</guid><category>environment</category><category>food</category><category>farming</category><category>monsanto</category><category>roundup</category><category>beans</category><category>weeds</category><category>resistant</category><category>glyphosate</category><category>envronment</category><category>super-weeds</category><category>waterhemp</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:16:15 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousgF579D198-B816-2B13-2D9B-BA952B67707F.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousgF579D198-B816-2B13-2D9B-BA952B67707F.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>Thirty Years After the Original, a New Study of Organic Agriculture</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Thirty years ago, the Rodale Institute set out to prove that organic farming methods work just as well as the conventional ones common at big farms across the country.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/20/7858897-thirty-years-after-the-original-a-new-study-of-organic-agriculture</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/20/7858897-thirty-years-after-the-original-a-new-study-of-organic-agriculture</guid><category>environment</category><category>not-news</category><category>organic</category><category>farming</category><category>gmo</category><category>corn</category><category>wheat</category><category>soy</category><category>crops</category><category>soil</category><category>yields</category><category>rodale</category><category>mark-smallwood</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:32:37 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousgF15F6344-F001-1F5A-E0E4-BA37F401EE9C.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousgF15F6344-F001-1F5A-E0E4-BA37F401EE9C.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="301" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>The American Lawn is the Devil's Pubic hair!! Stop Grooming the demon's naughty parts.</title>
<description><![CDATA[
&nbsp;Lawns, I REALLY HATE EM and ALWAYS WILL HATE EM!!!!
The whole&nbsp;concept of taking a parcel of your property and creating a lawn is one of the stupidest ideas humans have come up with EVER.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vlad's dog]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Vlad's dog]]></source><link>http://barndog2.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/18/7826004-the-american-lawn-is-the-devils-pubic-hair-stop-grooming-the-demons-naughty-parts</link><guid>http://barndog2.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/18/7826004-the-american-lawn-is-the-devils-pubic-hair-stop-grooming-the-demons-naughty-parts</guid><category>home-garden</category><category>edging</category><category>lawns</category><category>idiotic-human-ideas</category><category>lawn-mowing-grooming-cutting</category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:35:21 +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 url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null-barndog2F0EB0E17-15BD-C3C8-61CA-F3F743DBBA72.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Wild grass in its own environment, untamed and beauitful.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null-barndog2F0EB0E17-15BD-C3C8-61CA-F3F743DBBA72.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>Right2Know March</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Most Americans agree we have a right to know what&rsquo;s in our food, and a right to choose safe, healthy food for our families and ourselves.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/16/7794371-right2know-march</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/16/7794371-right2know-march</guid><category>politics</category><category>white-house</category><category>washington</category><category>new-york</category><category>organic</category><category>gmo</category><category>monsanto</category><category>march</category><category>farmers</category><category>biotechnology</category><category>labeling</category><category>cargill</category><category>agri-business</category><category>genetically-engineered</category><category>genetically-modified-organisms</category><category>non-gmo</category><category>round-up-ready</category><category>con-agra</category><category>right2know</category><category>world-food-day-rally</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:42:35 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null-curiousg56E9FB70-8F8D-F9BA-C640-1E0FB37C6255.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="65" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null-curiousg56E9FB70-8F8D-F9BA-C640-1E0FB37C6255.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="216" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>Just 1% of central highlands old growth forest survives in Victoria, Australia</title>
<description><![CDATA[Report by Adam Morton: "Before European settlement up to 80 per cent of the wet eucalyptus forest of  Victoria's central highlands was old-growth mountain ash, with trees  taller than 90 metres towering above the landscape.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/11/7718315-just-1-of-central-highlands-old-growth-forest-survives-in-victoria-australia</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/11/7718315-just-1-of-central-highlands-old-growth-forest-survives-in-victoria-australia</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>australia</category><category>america</category><category>climate</category><category>carbon</category><category>victoria</category><category>greenhouse</category><category>extinction</category><category>species</category><category>forest</category><category>ghg</category><category>eucalyptus</category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:03:07 +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>Monsanto Corn Falls to Illinois Bugs as Resistance Probe Widens</title>
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Monsanto Co.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/03/7588654-monsanto-corn-falls-to-illinois-bugs-as-resistance-probe-widens</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/03/7588654-monsanto-corn-falls-to-illinois-bugs-as-resistance-probe-widens</guid><category>environment</category><category>not-news</category><category>iowa</category><category>farming</category><category>gmo</category><category>monsanto</category><category>corn</category><category>insect</category><category>university-of-illinois</category><category>bt-corn</category><category>bacillus-thuringiensis</category><category>smartstax</category><category>michael-gray</category><category>rootworm</category><pubDate>Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:10:55 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousg12E4CDA3-B371-9FC8-0A94-0D61430E6349.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousg12E4CDA3-B371-9FC8-0A94-0D61430E6349.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: Beetle develops Bt-resistance</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Nature herself may be the best opponent of genetically modified crops and pesticides.  Not only plants, but insects are also developing resistance.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/27/7497313-monsanto-gm-corn-in-peril-beetle-develops-bt-resistance</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/27/7497313-monsanto-gm-corn-in-peril-beetle-develops-bt-resistance</guid><category>environment</category><category>farming</category><category>gmo</category><category>monsanto</category><category>corn</category><category>resistance</category><category>pesticides</category><category>kansas-state</category><category>beetle</category><category>genetically-modified</category><category>cargill</category><category>bt-corn</category><category>bacillus-thuringiensis</category><category>colleen-scherer</category><category>cry3bb1</category><pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:23:20 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousg0B44DB88-7E81-8AE0-4F21-2322F7E9A657.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousg0B44DB88-7E81-8AE0-4F21-2322F7E9A657.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="230" ></media:content></item><item><title>Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu Rejects Gillard Labor Oz Carbon Price</title>
<description><![CDATA[Report: "n advance of today's Council of Australian Governments meeting in  Canberra, Ted Baillieu produced ''new economic modelling'' showing the  federal carbon tax would cost more than 24,000 jobs and wipe $2.8  billion from the state economy in 2015."
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/18/7410125-victorian-premier-ted-baillieu-rejects-gillard-labor-oz-carbon-price</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/18/7410125-victorian-premier-ted-baillieu-rejects-gillard-labor-oz-carbon-price</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>australia</category><category>climate</category><category>carbon</category><category>co2</category><category>victoria</category><category>greenhouse</category><category>agw</category><category>ghg</category><category>carbon-tax</category><category>carbon-price</category><category>baillieu</category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:42:43 +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>Re fracking, gas &amp; CSG: Our food bowls should not be sacrificed to mining</title>
<description><![CDATA[Australian farmer Tim Duddy: "The only way agriculture and mining will be able to co-exist is if  extractive industries are kept away from productive agricultural land  and the precious water resources on which it relies."
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/17/7400795-re-fracking-gas-csg-our-food-bowls-should-not-be-sacrificed-to-mining</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/17/7400795-re-fracking-gas-csg-our-food-bowls-should-not-be-sacrificed-to-mining</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>obama</category><category>australia</category><category>america</category><category>gas</category><category>climate</category><category>carbon</category><category>co2</category><category>greenhouse</category><category>oz</category><category>ghg</category><category>methane</category><category>fracking</category><category>csg</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:15:52 +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>Fruits and vegetables are losing essential nutrient content</title>
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Gardens in Utahare thriving and full of delicious vegetables. Trees are weighed down in ripe fruit ready to pick. Many Utahfamilies enjoy growing their own vegetables and fruits.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/13/7364781-fruits-and-vegetables-are-losing-essential-nutrient-content</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/13/7364781-fruits-and-vegetables-are-losing-essential-nutrient-content</guid><category>environment</category><category>not-news</category><category>organic</category><category>vitamins</category><category>vegetables</category><category>fruit</category><category>minerals</category><category>produce</category><category>enzymes</category><category>flavonoids</category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:05:04 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousgEA774F92-6F9A-1FB9-8F2E-5C6BFC13AAFE.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousgEA774F92-6F9A-1FB9-8F2E-5C6BFC13AAFE.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>Local residents blockade forest logging in Toolangi State Forest, Victoria</title>
<description><![CDATA[Victoria, Australia&nbsp; volunteers have stopped logging in Toolangi Sate Forest in an effort to save the threatened Leadbeaters Possum from  extinction.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/10/7336776-local-residents-blockade-forest-logging-in-toolangi-state-forest-victoria</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/10/7336776-local-residents-blockade-forest-logging-in-toolangi-state-forest-victoria</guid><category>world-news</category><category>australia</category><category>climate</category><category>conservation</category><category>carbon</category><category>co2</category><category>victoria</category><category>greenhouse</category><category>agw</category><category>extinction</category><category>species</category><category>forest</category><category>ghg</category><category>deforestation</category><category>possum</category><category>leadbeaters-possum</category><category>toolangi</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:18:09 +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 Labor MP on Carbon Tax-ETS plan: &quot;Liberals' carbon confusion&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Labor MP Dreyfus: "The  fact is that Australia&rsquo;s top five trading partners &ndash; China, Japan,  the  US, the Republic of Korea and India &ndash; and another six of our  top  20 trading partners (New Zealand, Britain, Germany, Italy, France  and  the Netherlands) have impl&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/04/7246063-oz-labor-mp-on-carbon-tax-ets-plan-liberals-carbon-confusion</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/04/7246063-oz-labor-mp-on-carbon-tax-ets-plan-liberals-carbon-confusion</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>obama</category><category>australia</category><category>america</category><category>labor</category><category>climate</category><category>carbon</category><category>co2</category><category>agw</category><category>coalition</category><category>ghg</category><category>carbon-tax</category><category>gillard</category><category>ets</category><pubDate>Thu, 4 Aug 2011 06:05:40 +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>Minnesota Court Says Drifting Pesticides Are Trespassing</title>
<description><![CDATA[
In a move that signals support for Minnesota&rsquo;s organic farmers, a Court of Appeals ruled on July 25th that pesticides drifting onto a neighbor&rsquo;s organic fields are trespassing. The suit was brought by Oluf and Debra Johnson.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[CuriousG]]></source><link>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/31/7209709-minnesota-court-says-drifting-pesticides-are-trespassing</link><guid>http://curiousg.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/31/7209709-minnesota-court-says-drifting-pesticides-are-trespassing</guid><category>environment</category><category>minnesota</category><category>organic</category><category>farming</category><category>pesticides</category><category>crops</category><category>judge-ross</category><category>oluf-and-debra-johnson</category><category>paynesville-farmers-union-cooperative-oil-company</category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:08:50 +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><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousg4BD78CDD-E845-BC8D-7C31-54C9C95E8F16.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=curiousg4BD78CDD-E845-BC8D-7C31-54C9C95E8F16.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="248" width="400" ></media:content></item><item><title>Pesticides in Thrace threatening bee populations - Hurriyet Daily News</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The usage of pesticide on crops in Thrace poses a grave threat to honeybees in the area, according to a leading Turkish academic on the subject.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[GMO Journal]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[GMO Journal]]></source><link>http://gmo-journal.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/26/7169492-pesticides-in-thrace-threatening-bee-populations-hurriyet-daily-news</link><guid>http://gmo-journal.newsvine.com/_news/2011/07/26/7169492-pesticides-in-thrace-threatening-bee-populations-hurriyet-daily-news</guid><category>science</category><category>bees</category><category>honey</category><category>pesticides</category><category>honeybees</category><category>pollination</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:07:53 +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></channel></rss>
