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A weekly podcast.</description>
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		<title>The Green Planet Monitor &#8212; Season III, No. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The challenges of being young – and how young people are engaging with the wide world around them. From Jamaica, Ghana and Peru – stories about violence, play and sex-ed, on the Web. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2010/03/the-green-planet-monitor-season-iii-no-1/</link>
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		<title>Greening Air Travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Franklin is turning air miles into trees. Franklin -- the founder of a grassroots carbon offsetting project in Ecuador -- calculates how many seedlings he has to put in the ground in order to generate a carbon bank big enough to capture the carbon dioxide emitted by tourists jetting to the popular Galapagos Islands each year.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2009/03/greening-air-travel/</link>
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		<title>Curitiba - Sustainable City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The city of Curitiba, in southern Brazil, is famous among urban planners for its innovation and rational development, with a reputation for being highly livable and very sustainable.  It was one of the first cities to market itself as "green" in a 1980s advertising campaign. And it is.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2009/03/curitiba-sustainable-city/</link>
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		<title>Jeff Halper in Winnipeg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Israeli activist Jeff Halper came to Winnipeg at the end of January to speak about the current situation in Palestine-Israel, and about the work of the Israel Committee Against House Demolitions. Temperatures outside plunged to almost minus forty. Inside the atmosphere was congenial -- but Jeff had disturbing news to share.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2009/01/jeff-halper-in-winnipeg/</link>
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		<title>The Mangroves of southern Cambodia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They're scrubby, fierce with mosquitoes and impossible to walk through, but salt water mangroves are the guardians of Earth's tropical coastlines and nurseries for her fish. Coastal mangroves are endangered by unsustainable fishing and cutting practices. The mangroves of southern Cambodia, on the Gulf of Thailand, are a case in point.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2009/01/cambodia-mangroves/</link>
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		<title>Farming in Palestine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Farmers and their cash crops ... earning a living on the margins of global agriculture. Palestinian farmers face an entirely unique challenge. Israel’s so-called "Security Barrier" has actually walled them off from their olive and vegetable groves. The Annexation Wall – as Palestinians call it – prevents them from farming completely. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2009/01/farming-in-palestine/</link>
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		<title>The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conserving scarce pockets of precious water and their wildlife. In the middle of one of India’s largest cities, citizens say, ‘Don’t touch our lake!” And in the mangroves of southern Cambodia, villagers work to sustain their waters, trees and fish.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2009/01/the-green-planet-monitor-edition-12/</link>
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		<title>The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communities struggle to be healthy in the shadow of the Big Three: tuberculosis, malaria and HIV-AIDS.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2008/12/the-green-planet-monitor-edition-11/</link>
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		<title>Letter from Rwanda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rwanda ... Land of a Thousand Hills, in east-central Africa. Fourteen years after the awful 100-day genocide, Rwandans grow rice, bananas, tea and coffee as they have for generations. On one mountainside, villagers are earning extra money processing their own coffee beans -- thanks to a fellow Rwandan educated in Canada. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2008/12/letter-from-rwanda/</link>
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		<title>Flowers for Sweethearts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next time you buy roses for your honey, consider this: The cut flowers in your Valentine’s bouquet were fumigated for insects and mildew, then drenched with preservatives for the long flight north. They may only make your lover sneeze – or perhaps break out in a rash – but the farmers who grow the flowers may suffer chronic poisoning. GPM producer Jen Moore sends us this report from Ecuador, a major exporter of cut flowers.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/news/2008/12/flowers-for-sweethearts/</link>
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