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		<title>Tackling Global Climate Change: Is the US Finally Onboard?</title>

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		<link>http://consiliencejournal.readux.org/2009/07/tackling-global-climate-change-is-the-us-finally-onboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This marks a remarkable sea-change for a country that, just three years ago, had a President whose official stance on global warming was flippant if not blatant denial. The dramatic shift of tide is exemplified by the recent and historic passage of the ACESA (American Clean Energy and Security Act, 2009) in the House of Representatives. Though by no means a perfect bill, it sets a declining cap on carbon emissions. The scale of proposed reductions, though not particularly ambitious, is still probably compatible with staying within 2 degrees Celsius (C°) or fewer of planetary warming by 2100.]]></description>
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		<title>Light at the End of the Tunnel for Climate Change: An Interview with Andrew Light</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We’re faced with a very clear ethical mandate—you can’t ask developing countries to dramatically slow their economic growth, which is going to include impeding their progress on very important issues. China’s not growing just so it can have cars and McDonald’s. China’s trying to grow because people are suffering. We’re caught between that ethical mandate, the fact that developing countries are not responsible for the carbon that’s currently causing the problem, and the reality that if developing countries do nothing, then the entire planet suffers."]]></description>
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		<title>Driving the Future: An Interview on Automotives and Sustainable Development</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["People definitely expect a certain amount of mobility these days. They expect to be able to get around their cities, get around the world at a relatively quick pace compared to a couple hundred years ago, and I feel that that’s something we can expect to continue to do. I don’t think we’re all going to go back to horse and buggies, but, at the same time, I think we can reduce the impact of those types of activities and make it so that we can get around in a way that pollutes a lot less and uses less natural resources."]]></description>
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		<title>Wasted Again: What Can We Do With All of That Garbage?</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As summer heats up, our thoughts return to garbage—specifically New York City's garbage. As I've mentioned before, it would be hard to invent a more environmentally damaging, or more expensive system of waste management, than the one we use. To reiterate—in New York City we collect the garbage that residents place on the curb and then dump it on the floor of huge warehouses that tend to be located in low-income neighborhoods. We then scoop it up and load it on to trailer trucks and ship it far away—mostly to landfills (dumps), or waste-to-energy plants (incinerators). In the old days, when we had more vacant land in the city, we dumped the garbage in our own landfills. When I was a kid we had the Fountain Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue landfills in Brooklyn—which some of us called the Brooklyn Alps as the dump grew higher and higher. Of course, Staten Island had its incredible Freshkills Landfill. The story is told that there are two human made objects visible from outer space: The Great Wall of China and the Freshkills Landfill. Ah, the good old days.]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Forests Through Building Communities: An Interview with Charles Peters</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 16:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Everything that I do is one hundred percent applied. If you want to study community ecology or pollination biology, that's wonderful. But why not study it in a system with value, so that when you get answers, not only do you get to publish a paper, but then someone can take that information and apply it to fix something?"]]></description>
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		<title>Global Recession and Protectionism: The Rise of an Old Menace</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Already, long-time opponents of free trade and globalization are pointing to the contagious nature of this economic crisis as proof of the ills of globalization and cause for more inward-looking policies. Even talk of so-called ‘de-globalization’ seems to be gaining more adherents in intellectual arena. However, most talk about how this recession is proof of globalization’s failures misses the point. Turning back globalization now only stands to make things worse.]]></description>
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		<title>The Floating Cities Initiative Comes Home</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we walk down Broadway in Manhattan, we sometimes forget that New York is virtually surrounded by water. In fact, the five boroughs have 578 miles of shoreline. If global warming ends up melting enough sea ice at the poles to cause the sea level to rise, New York City is in a world of trouble.]]></description>
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		<title>Disappearing Acts: Where Have All Our Neighborhoods Gone?</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The convenience, cheaper products and deft marketing of corporations are winning over individuality, allowing Wal-Marts to obliterate our Main Streets. As a result, our city centers are teetering on the edge of losing their uniqueness. Taming this trend is not just about nostalgia for mom and pop stores. Buying locally grown food from locally run stores is important for the economy of a township. It keeps money and resources within the community, lowers transportation costs and decreases energy use. Corporate takeover is a threat to sustainable living.]]></description>
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		<title>Duke Smart Home: Taking the LEED</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merriam-Webster currently defines ‘smart’ as ‘causing a sharp stinging’ or ‘mentally alert,’ but the Home Depot Smart Home at Duke University might force Merriam-Webster into a new edition. With projects like pressurized toilets, solarized heating and cooling and a high-tech mailbox, ‘smart’ now describes everything from doorbells to pool tables. Changing global realities will require us to redefine ourselves in order to remain sustainable, and, in the midst of this redefinition, the Duke Smart Home is an important institution, a beacon for greener and more sustainable living.]]></description>
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		<title>CCS and Its Discontents: An Interview with Professor Klaus Lackner</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I try to avoid making moral judgments about issues like consumerism, and, yes, we could get into that argument. But, in the end, what’s objectionable is that the use of all these fossil fuels creates damages, and, if we can remove these damages, why not? I’m aware of the fact that the CO2 is not the only damage, but right now it is…the leading damage, the most disconcerting damage. So you tend to fix these things one at a time."]]></description>
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		<title>Faces In the Crowd: Addressing Individual Needs in Aid Efforts</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pedro Sanchez, Director of the Tropical Agriculture Program at the Earth Institute, reports that, as of April 2007, the United Nations spent approximately $670 for each ton of food aid it provided in Malawi. In contrast, providing a village with the fertilizer and improved-yield hybrid seeds (both easily implemented to improve the existing system of agriculture) needed to produce an extra ton of food cost only $77. This small-scale, village by village method was far more effective.]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluation of the NZAID Project</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caitlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evaluation of the IIRR BICOL Program: Final Evaluation Report
 
Evaluation of “Institutionalizing Community–Based Integrated Watershed Management within Local Government Units in the Bicol Region, Philippines: Scaling Up and Sustaining Capacity–Building Outcomes at Local Level” for the IIRR BICOL Program
 
27 May 2008
 
Economic and Political Development Workshop Project
 
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University in the City of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Editors of Consilience</title>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Consilience&#8217;s Issue II Editors




Hannah Lee: hsl2103@columbia.edu
Hannah S. Lee is an environmental engineering student at Columbia University, deeply fortunate to be working with the driven and passionate members of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development. She studies carbon mitigation technologies, and is especially dedicated to energy access studies for regions of poverty which lack the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor-in-Chief Note</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce the release of Issue II of <em>Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development</em>. Our current editorial board of 32 undergraduate and graduate students worked with this issue's 23 authors to present to you an inspiring collection of written experiences and novel ideas of individuals passionate for the advancement of sustainable development. Please also see the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://consiliencejournal.readux.org/about/issue-iii-call-for-submissions/">Call for Submission for Issue III</a></strong></span>, due to be published Fall 2009.

Below this note, you are introduced to the <strong>four cornerstones of the publication: our writers' scholarly articles, photo essays, opinion piece, and field notes</strong>.]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Editors&#8217; Notes</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hannah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers,
I welcome you to meet the leading editorial board of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development. Each senior editor is an inspiring leader and world citizen. I invite you to peruse, below, in addition to the Editor-in-Chief&#8217;s note, the notes of each Senior Editor on the written work they advised.
-Hannah Lee
Editor-in-Chief

Scholarly Articles
Towards Sustainable Wastewater [...]]]></description>
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