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		<title>Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Helps Change Lives through Improved Sanitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There are 2.6 billion people without access to improved sanitation. And, according to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), that’s supposed to be halved by the year 2015,” Ian Moise [mo-EEZ] told Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL).

Moise is a returned Peace Corps volunteer, who currently consults on a global sanitation project for the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). “Our project is one of the many projects working on expanding access to ‘improved sanitation’ for a target of roughly 1.3 billion people,” he said... (Part 1 of a 2-Part Interview)]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from India: 1984 &#8211; Bhopal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posts in Blue Planet Green Living&#8217;s &#8220;Notes from&#8230;&#8221; category provide readers with a personal viewpoint, often an essay, from a writer whose views are intrinsically linked to their own nation or locale. In this case, we present reflections on a needless and gruesome tragedy that occurred 26 years ago in Bhopal. Those responsible for operations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Borrowed Earth by Robert Emmet Hernan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Gulf of Mexico continues to fill with oil due to BP's negligence and our own government agencies' lack of oversight, we are experiencing an environmental disaster of catastrophic proportions. Tragically, this isn't the first human-caused environmental disaster — and given our track record as stewards of this planet, it's futile to fool ourselves that it will be the last. In his book, This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the 15 Worst Environmental Disasters Around the World, Robert Emmet Hernan describes in detail 15 environmental disasters we must remember so that history doesn't repeat itself.

In the book's Introduction — penned merely months before BP's so-called "spill," Hernan wrote, "If we forget how and why these disasters happened and what horrible consequences emerged from them, we will not avert future disasters." As a society, we seem to have done just what Hernan feared: We've forgotten. And so another disaster is upon us.

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, writes in the book's Foreword, "In an age where we're once again ideologically committed to 'loosening the reins' on private enterprise, it's sobering to remember what has happened in the past. In an age when new technologies are barely tested before they're put into widespread use—genetically engineered crops, for instance—it's even more sobering to contemplate a seemingly iron-clad rule: every new machine or system seems to fail catastrophically at least once." ...]]></description>
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		<title>Full-Circle Learning &#8211; Global Partnerships Unlock Potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After  the 1992 civil unrest in South Central Los Angeles, a small grassroots group began an after-school program to show the children living in the area that diverse members of their community cared about them. Teresa Henkle Langness, who later founded Full-Circle Learning, was among them.

“Over time,” Langness says, “we began to see that what these children needed was to be a part of a community, to be a part of the solution, instead of feeling like victims of society’s ills.”

Langness adds, “When we began to incorporate character themes linked to local and global service within each lesson plan, the students’ scores suddenly began to leap. They became much better students, much better people. They began to teach their parents conflict resolution. Outside organizations in the community began to benefit from their work. Families wanted to replicate the model and began asking us for help in doing so.”

Today, Full-Circle Learning provides a full preschool-through-high school curriculum in 13 nations. Langness told Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL), “The mission of Full-Circle Learning is to help young people embrace their role as humanitarians and change agents. We do this through educational programs that integrate and expand students’ character strength, academic excellence, creative capacities, and conflict resolution skills.” ...

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		<title>Project GreenHands – Compensating the Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makur Jain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, drawing extensively on community involvement and large-scale volunteer participation, Project GreenHands planted more than 25,000 trees in tsunami-devastated coastal areas of Tamil Nadu. In 2006, PGH volunteers planted 856,000 trees in just three days, securing the project a place in the Guinness World Book of Records. By the end of the 2008 planting season, PGH had planted a total of 7.1 million trees and introduced a newly designed model of agro-forestry among the farmer community. The Project's current aim is to inspire and support the citizens of Tamil Nadu to plant an astonishing total of 114 million trees statewide by the year 2010, adding 30% more to the existing level of green cover in Tamil Nadu.]]></description>
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		<title>Makur Jain, Ph.D., Contributing Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/02/02/makur-jain-phd-contributing-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makur Jain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributing writer Dr. Makur Jain lives in Lucknow, India, where she earned her Ph.D. in English literature. During the 2007–08 school year, she was hosted by the U.S. State Department as a Fulbright scholar to teach Hindi at the University of Iowa.]]></description>
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