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		<title>Visit Stephen Leahy&#8217;s Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://stephenleahy.net/ I encourage all of you to connect with the important work of Stephen Leahy. He has devoted his life to environmental journalism and has pretty much had to struggle ever since. Sadly it is still true that the severe challenges we face are not being covered in the main stream press. Our politicians easily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=221&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers, But No Bees?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a professional nature photographer among other things.  It is now wildflower season, and I have spent a few days shooting pictures of the early wildflower bloom here in NW Arkansas. NW Arkansas where I live is pristine.  I live adjacent to a wilderness area. My neighbors raise cattle, but there are few herbicides [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=218&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Already Too Late?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to not go completely &#8220;negative&#8221; about current climate change data. Tere is no quarrel by any serious scientist about global warming, the question now is this: have we crossed the tipping point, the point of no return. A growing body of scientists are now suggesting that perhaps we have. Maybe the struggle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=215&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BraveNewClimate.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just run across another excellent resource that I recommend to everyone, bravenewclimate.com.  This is the personal blog and website of Barry Brook, a distinguished professor of climate change and the University of Adelaide in Australia. Dr. Brook is one of those gifted, rare thinkers like Nate Hagens of theoildrum.com. He has published over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=211&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Investing in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to NPR one would think that the economy was in a deep upset, but it best understood as business as usual with significant hardship. Two different commentators suggested that, in this recession, one might have to make some sacrifices, like giving up on a second home or condo, and that one probably should save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=207&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the Great Ice Storm of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are just emerging from the most damaging ice storm to hit this area in anyone&#8217;s memory. Roughly 1.5 inches of ice accumulated on everything, even blades of grass. For over a week we had no water, and no electricity &#8212; a challenge in the dead of winter. Fortunately, the climate in Arkansas is relatively [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=201&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Promise of Our New American Era is Re-Localization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our new President Obama&#8217;s election and inauguration has inspired us all. We rightfully have the sense that we are reborn, and if the election was metaphor, America has shucked off &#8220;me first&#8221; once and for all.  We are now one. Like our new President Obama, I am a community organizer by training, experience and instinct. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=197&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Snow and Cold Temps. Is Global Warming Bogus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This winter has been unusually cold and snow falls are very heavy. The most common response I hear is that global warming is obviously wrong, look at all this snow and cold. What more proof do you need? Not much proof, just basic physics. Here are the facts: What happens when ice melts?  Answer: The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=170&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local Action Alone Will Create the &#8220;Audacity of Hope&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Obama&#8217;s election, many argue that America voted for change and to restore hope, but to most, hope means getting back to the good old days of consumerism. Our national hope is for a reverse gear to a cherished past characterized by passivity, hedonism and non-involvement. We hope to be able to shop as we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=135&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CIA Helps Afghan Chieftans Bone Up on Family Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIA Using Viagra To Help Build Alliances In Afghanistan &#8212; Washington Post As the Bush Administration, that super-nova of incompetence, orbits out of office, the mind boggles at the bold stroke of pushing boner pills to build alliances. This falls on my all-time, you gotta be shitting me list.  I can only imagine the official [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldougherty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528670&amp;post=137&amp;subd=michaeldougherty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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