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		<title>Needed: A Copernican Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we need a similar shift in our worldview, in how we think about the relationship between the earth and the economy. The issue now is not which celestial sphere revolves around the other but whether the environment is part of the economy or the economy is part of the environment. Economists see the environment as a subset of the economy. Ecologists, on the other hand, see the economy as a subset of the environment. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;On Thin Ice&#8217; Tracks Glacial Melt, Indian Food Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOW, with David Brancaccio, travels to the Indian Himalaya, to examine the problem of persistent accelerating ice melt which is speeding the erosion of glaciers that feed the Ganges River, which in turn provides water for hundreds of millions of people and sustains a precarious but massive food economy. ]]></description>
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		<title>Creating New Jobs, Cutting Carbon Emissions &amp; Reducing Oil Imports by Investing in Renewable Energy &amp; Energy Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/12/12/260/creating-new-jobs-cutting-carbon-emissions-reducing-oil-imports-by-investing-in-renewable-energy-energy-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when major U.S. companies are announcing job layoffs almost daily, the renewable energy industry is hiring new workers every day to build wind farms, install rooftop solar arrays, and build solar thermal and geothermal power plants. The output of industrial firms that manufacture the equipment for these energy facilities is expanding by well over 30 percent a year. These investments both create jobs and help prevent climate change from spiraling out of control. ]]></description>
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		<title>Food Insecurity &amp; Failing States</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/07/12/173/food-insecurity-failing-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jr3o</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the concluding half of the last century, the world was making steady progress in reducing hunger, but during the transition into the new century, the tide began to turn. In February 2007, James Morris, head of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), announced that 18,000 children are now dying each day from hunger and related causes. For perspective, this loss of young lives in one day is almost five times U.S. combat deaths in Iraq through four years of fighting. Although these huge numbers of dying children may be an abstraction, each represents a young life ended far too soon. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Power Set to Become World&#8217;s Leading Energy Source</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/07/10/164/wind-power-set-to-become-worlds-leading-energy-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jr3o</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1991, a national wind resource inventory taken by the U.S. Department of Energy startled the world when it reported that the three most wind-rich states —North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas— had enough harnessable wind energy to satisfy national electricity needs. Now a new study by a team of engineers at Stanford reports that the wind energy potential is actually substantially greater than that estimated in 1991. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wind Energy Demand Booming</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/07/10/155/wind-energy-demand-booming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Austin Energy, the publicly owned utility in Austin, Texas, launched its GreenChoice program in 2000, customers opting for green electricity paid a premium. During the fall of 2005, climbing natural gas prices pulled conventional electricity costs above those of wind-generated electricity, the source of most green power. This crossing of the cost lines in Austin and several other communities is a milestone in the U.S. shift to a renewable energy economy. ]]></description>
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		<title>Challenge on Food Front: Business-as-Usual Not a Viable Option</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/06/23/138/challenge-on-food-front-business-as-usual-not-a-viable-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jr3o</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fast-unfolding food shortage is engulfing the entire world, driving food prices to record highs. Over the past half-century grain prices have spiked from time to time because of weather-related events, such as the 1972 Soviet crop failure that led to a doubling of world wheat, rice, and corn prices. The situation today is entirely different, however. The current doubling of grain prices is trend-driven, the cumulative effect of some trends that are accelerating growth in demand and other trends that are slowing the growth in supply. ]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Down the Food Chain</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/03/28/87/moving-down-the-food-chain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions I am most often asked is, “How many peo-ple can the earth support?” I answer with another question: “Atwhat level of food consumption?” Using round numbers, at theU.S. level of 800 kilograms of grain per person annually for food and feed, the 2-billion-ton annual world harvest of grain would support 2.5 billion people. At the Italian level of consumption of close to 400 kilograms, the current harvest would support 5 billion people. At the 200 kilograms of grain consumed by the average Indian, it would support a population of 10 billion. ]]></description>
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		<title>Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/02/08/18/plan-b-30-mobilizing-to-save-civilization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jr3o</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ecologist and researcher Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, has issued the 3rd installment of his 'Plan B' books —Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (2008)—, which lay out the most vital research underlying and the most optimal means of meeting the need to transition to a sustainable economy that not only works in harmony with natural system, but also helps to reverse the excesses of the existing industrial model. ]]></description>
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		<title>Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/02/06/106/why-ethanol-production-will-drive-world-food-prices-even-higher-in-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before. The world is facing the most severe food price inflation in history as grain and soybean prices climb to all-time highs. Wheat trading on the Chicago Board of Trade on December 17th breached the $10 per bushel level for the first time ever. ]]></description>
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		<title>Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2007/12/14/100/massive-diversion-of-us-grain-to-fuel-cars-is-raising-world-food-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think you are spending more each week at the supermarket, you may be right. The escalating share of the U.S. grain harvest going to ethanol distilleries is driving up food prices worldwide. Corn prices have doubled over the last year, wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years, and rice prices are rising too. In addition, soybean futures have risen by half. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bottled Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2007/10/15/95/bottled-water-pouring-resources-down-the-drain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global consumption of bottled water reached 154 billion liters (41 billion gallons) in 2004, up 57 percent from the 98 billion liters consumed five years earlier. Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing—producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more. At as much as $2.50 per liter ($10 per gallon), bottled water costs more than gasoline.]]></description>
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		<title>The World After Oil Peaks</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2007/10/13/93/the-world-after-oil-peaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peak oil is described as the point where oil production stops rising and begins its inevitable long-term decline. In the face of fast-growing demand, this means rising oil prices. But even if oil production growth simply slows or plateaus, the resulting tightening in supplies will still drive the price of oil upward, albeit less rapidly.

Few countries are planning a reduction in their use of oil. Even though peak oil may be imminent, most countries are counting on much higher oil consumption in the decades ahead, building automobile assembly plants, roads, highways, parking lots, and suburban housing developments as though cheap oil will last forever.]]></description>
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		<title>World Grain Stocks for 2006 Fell to 57 Days of Consumption</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2007/10/11/92/world-grain-stocks-for-2006-fell-to-57-days-of-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world grain harvest for 2006 was projected mid-year to fall short of consumption by 61 million tons, marking the sixth time in the last seven years that production has failed to satisfy demand. As a result of these shortfalls, world carryover stocks at the end of this crop year were projected to drop to 57 days of consumption, the shortest buffer since the 56-day-low in 1972 that triggered a doubling of grain prices.]]></description>
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		<title>Population, Land &amp; Conflict</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2007/09/26/68/population-land-conflict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As land and water become scarce and as competition for these vital resources intensifies, we can expect mounting social tensions within societies, particularly between those who are poor and dispossessed and those who are wealthy, as well as among ethnic and religious groups. Population growth brings with it a steady shrinkage of life-supporting resources per person. That decline, which is threatening to drop the living standards of more and more people below survival level, could lead to unmanageable social tensions that will translate into broad-based conflicts.]]></description>
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		<title>World Creating Food Bubble Economy Based on Unsustainable Use of Water</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2007/09/22/66/world-creating-food-bubble-economy-based-on-unsustainable-use-of-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 16, 2003, some 10,000 participants [met] in Japan for the third World Water Forum to discuss the world water prospect. Although they [would] be officially focusing on water scarcity, they [would also] indirectly be focusing on food scarcity because 70 percent of the water we divert from rivers or pump from underground is used for irrigation.

As world water demand has tripled over the last half-century, it has exceeded the sustainable yield of aquifers in scores of countries, leading to falling water tables. In effect, governments are satisfying the growing demand for food by overpumping groundwater, a measure that virtually assures a drop in food production when the aquifer is depleted. Knowingly or not, governments are creating a "food bubble" economy.]]></description>
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