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		<title>Terry Tamminen on &#8220;The Carbon Cops&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing on his Fast Company blog, Lives Per Gallon author Terry Tamminen writes:
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that publicly-held companies must disclose their exposure to potential losses from climate change, including carbon emissions that are the subject of growing regulation in the US (and already highly regulated in Europe). Reaction has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island Press authors in the field: January 27, 2010.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Tamminen, author of Lives Per Gallon and former California climate policy advisor, is quoted at length by Bradford Plumer:
The person to ask would be Terry Tamminen, who advised Arnold Schwarzenegger on climate policy back when California was drafting its plan to reduce carbon emissions 25 percent by 2020. Since then, Tamminen has traveled around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Relevance of Vavilov in the Year 2010?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note: Gary Nabhan was recently given the honor of presenting the biennial Vavilov Memorial Lecture in Moscow and offering a similar lecture in Saint Petersburg, and was further honored with the gift of the Vavilov Medal. These are his reflections after years of retracing Vavilov through the centers of food diversity, while writing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Nabhan on Pepper Scarcity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Nabhan, author of Some Like It Hot and Where Our Food Comes From, writes on the effects of climate change on Middle Eastern food:
Urfa and Maras peppers from Turkey have the same international fame that Aleppo (Halaby) peppers do from Syria, Tabascos do from Louisiana, or Habaneros do from the Yucatan. But their prices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water for Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Gleick on the earthquake crisis in Haiti:
I urge people to make donations to whatever organizations they trust to deliver help. I&#8217;ve donated to the American Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, but there are many more.
In any disaster like this, after search, rescue, and immediate medical care, clean and safe water becomes a critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing to fear from denialists.</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/366/nothing-to-fear-from-denialists</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Grist, Jay Inslee vents about the &#8220;birthers&#8221; and climate-change deniers:
Both birthers and the climate-change deniers work on a similar premise—that concrete facts can be subjugated to the power of fear. Both movements fear change and contemplate that they can create enough smoke and confusion to fertilize the ascendency of fear.  They both enjoy big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A youth movement in Copenhagen?</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/365/a-youth-movement-in-copenhagen</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Tamminen on the youth activists at Copenhagen&#8217;s COP15 talks:
Other than the anti-war campaigns of the 1970s, it’s hard to recall a movement that has been so embraced, even motivated, by the world’s youth. Solving the climate crisis is not the only thing these young people are focused on&#8211;hey are also inventing, embracing, and sharing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obvious answers for obvious questions at Copenhagen.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obvious questions provoke the obvious answers. From my reading of the literature over the last month, and from everything I have learned at Copenhagen, there can be no doubt that the scientific consensus on climate change is consistent and overwhelming. So it leaves us with a quandary. All of these researchers, across a half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We have the data on climate change&#8211;but can it spur action?</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/363/we-have-the-data-on-climate-change-but-can-it-spur-action</link>
		<comments>http://blog.islandpress.org/363/we-have-the-data-on-climate-change-but-can-it-spur-action#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a dramatic break with recent policy, the Environmental Protection Agency has just formally announced plans to regulate climate changing pollution under the Clean Air Act, declaring clear evidence that greenhouse gases &#8220;threaten the public health and welfare of the American people.&#8221; President Obama has pledged to attend the second week of the COP15 climate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Gleick on water conflicts.</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/362/peter-gleick-on-water-conflicts</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Gleick describes the history of the Water Conflict Chronology and the bottom line for water resources:
International security is not a sterile or static field of study and analysis. It is constantly evolving as international and regional politics evolves and as new threats to security become increasingly important in the affairs of humanity. In all [...]]]></description>
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