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	<description>Cultivating Sustainabilty</description>
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		<title>Guiding Principles Needed: Towards A Global Strategy For Climate Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kiyo Akasaka is Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations.

Ever since I attended the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change in 1997, I have been fascinated by the development of the international debate on this issue. There are few forces that can literally reshape the global landscape as climate change can. Rising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=1896</link>
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		<title>Who needs organic food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

What&#8217;s 	So Great About Organic Food?

Looking for a quick way to feel lousy about yourself? Then forget the idea of a healthy diet and just eat what your body wants you to eat. Your body wants meat; your body wants fat; your body wants salt and sugar. Your body will put up with fruits and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=1892</link>
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		<title>Saving the Earth, one bottle at a time</title>
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		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=1887</link>
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		<title>Butchart Garden on Vancouver Island</title>
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		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=1819</link>
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		<title>Valuing sustainable food and security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buying food because the price tag is inexpensive, does not mean the cost is cheap.  I found this article that I thought really summed up the issues of local and and points out the bigger issues of community and health.
The Green Crowd: With values intact, local farms withstand economic storm


Daniel Bornstein
If you’re serious about eating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=1422</link>
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		<title>Oshawa approves community garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New community garden planned for  Legends Centre in Oshawa
Jillian Follert
OSHAWA &#8212; Oshawa&#8217;s newest community garden is set to sprout  at the Legends Centre this fall.
It&#8217;s the second local community  garden project spearheaded by the Foundation for Building Sustainable  Communities, a group dedicated to preserving the planet.
&#8220;People  need to get back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=1811</link>
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		<title>Defining words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this on sustainabletable
100% Vegetarian Diet
Animals are not fed any animal byproducts. This does not guarantee they were raised outdoors or on pasture, but it should indicate that they were raised on grasses, hay, silage and other feed found on pasture or in a field. Grain, like corn, is vegetarian and falls into this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=863</link>
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		<title>Food: A fresh look</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR’S NOTE: Buying local foods positively impacts air quality because the produce doesn’t have to be shipped across the country. Consequently, less fuel is used and less harmful emissions are released into the air.
By Katie Scarvey &#8211; Salisbury Post
A new way of thinking about food. That&#8217;s what the documentary &#8220;Fresh,&#8221; screened last Thursday in Salisbury, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=1067</link>
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		<title>Capturing rainwater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rain barrels save money and the environment.  It's a green thing.]]></description>
		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=746</link>
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		<title>Being civil about commodities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a good roadmap.  We need to make policies that respects the ecological, social and economic systems and not make decisions at the peril of others.
The Sustainable Commodity Initiative Roadmap Sustainable Development

View more documents from Gino Smit.

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		<link>http://fbsc.org/?p=906</link>
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