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		<title>Ryan Gourley, Contributing Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/10/01/ryan-gourley-contributing-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abby Seixas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Gourley is an organizer for Moving Planet and the Iowa City Climate Advocates, a local division of the Iowa Climate Advocates.

A native Iowan, Ryan received his Bachelor's degrees from The University of Iowa, where he studied psychology, communication, and theatre. He combines this background with his interest in healthcare as a research specialist for the Iowa City VA Health Care System and a communication instructor for The University of Iowa Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy....]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Virginia: We Share Responsibilty for Activists&#8217; Deaths and Rainforest Destruction</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/05/31/we-share-responsibilty-for-the-deaths-of-environmental-activists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elias Simpson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Reader,

Today I read an article on the Huffington Post called Adelino Ramos Killed: Third Environmental Activist Murdered This Week In Brazil. In case you didn't know, as I didn't, there's conflict in Brazil. Loggers, farmers, and ranchers are illegally laying claim to the rainforest. The most terrifying aspect is that environmental activists, 1150 recorded to date, are being killed by hit men hired by the companies that profit from the destruction of the rainforest.

It's hard to think of a better reason to act on principles. I'm writing to get us started on thinking of how we can make a difference for those struggling to sustain the most vital piece of our planet's environment, our life sources, and biological diversity. The enemy is obvious, and his power is too: money. What's less obvious is how American consumers are responsible for the conflict....]]></description>
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		<title>Little Princes by Conor Grennan</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/05/09/little-princes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 03:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, Conor Grennan began an around-the-world journey with a two-month stint volunteering in Little Princes, a Nepalese orphanage near Kathmandu. He took on the work less as a humanitarian effort than as a way to justify spending the next ten months indulging his urge to travel, he says. He had no intention of making the orphanage or the children of Nepal his life's work. "Volunteering in an orphanage was a one-off," Grennan writes in Little Princes, "an experience that you would never forget and never repeat." He wasn't callous, just uninvolved.

But what he could not know then was how deeply these children would affect him, compelling him to return again and again to do all that he could to help them. What he also did not learn at first was that most of the children were not orphans, but victims of child trafficking....]]></description>
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		<title>International Women’s Day Event to Celebrate Ugandan Hero</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/02/23/international-women%e2%80%99s-day-event-to-celebrate-ugandan-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an early celebration of International Women’s Day, Blue Planet Green Living is partnering with A GEM of An Idea to host a live and interactive, online forum featuring the subject of this post, Agnes Nyamayarwo, founder of Mulago Positive Women’s Network.

We're focusing on Agnes — both here and in the online forum — to celebrate her singular accomplishments as a woman of initiative, courage, and strength.

We invite you to join us February 26, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. EST to speak with Agnes Nyamayarwo live from Uganda via the Internet. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Walk Away and Leave Malnourished Children Standing There&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/08/10/i-cant-walk-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My cousin, David Wasson, knows about childhood nutrition better than most. David is an award-winning chef who spent his career preparing meals for wealthy people and teaching their children to cook. He also taught cooking at a community college in the United States. As he approached retirement, David embarked on a completely new venture that would profoundly change his life. Today, as the Chef and Child Foundation Ambassador to the Philippines, David cooks for children who are as familiar with hunger as most people reading this post are familiar with a full belly.

His work is urgent. With every meal he cooks, he fights to save children’s lives and the health of their brains and bodies....]]></description>
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		<title>Cast Your Vote for the &#8220;Hardest-Working ___ in America&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/08/04/hardest-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitchum's brand team calls its product the "hardest working anti-perspirant in America." And, as part of their latest advertising strategy, they're running a contest  that invites people to submit videos of the "hardest-working ____ in America." Entrants were invited to fill in the blank with a noun, then to post a video about themselves or someone else they nominated. The goal is to convince the rest of us to vote for them.

While this is obviously another clever marketing strategy similar to a few other companies' efforts  (Pepsi and Intuit come to mind), the stakes are high enough that the prize could do some real good. And that's why I'm weighing in with a suggestion that you take a look at the videos of the ten finalists and choose the one that resonates with you....]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Canada: Giving Back to Uganda with Love</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/07/21/love-and-compassion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Post</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was born a white child in Uganda, East Africa to missionary parents, Velma and David Freeman. When I was 8 years old, our time in Africa came to a sudden and frightening end.

Just three months earlier, my dad had witnessed the brutal killing of our town mayor in Masaka. The mayor had been dragged through the town on the back of a pickup truck, and then a major in the army openly slit his throat as a warning to anyone who might stand against the regime of the ruthless and unpredictable dictator, President Idi Amin. My father was the only white man he could see, along with a few Asians in the crowd.

Our deportation was ordered shortly thereafter. Idi Amin’s soldiers picked up my father late one night and took him to jail. We had 48 hours to leave. Little did I realize at that young age that everything I knew as normal would change forever....]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteering Made Easy &#8211; Action Now + Network</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/07/13/action-now-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're like pretty much everyone else I know, you want to do "something" to help causes that are important to you. But your time is limited, and your demands are already huge. How do you find out what organizations support the issues that concern you and where you should expend your limited energy? Action Now + Network is a resource that will help you sort through the options available and choose one (or more) that is right for you.

Launched just two months ago, Action Now + Network is a new website that focuses on organizations that are doing real good for the world. Here's how founder Sheila Wasserman described Action Now + Network to Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) in an interview from her California office....

WASSERMAN: In this age of  Facebook, Twitter, and instant RSS feeds, it’s really impossible to claim ignorance of the world around us. We are all constantly bombarded at warp speed with information on the life-threatening issues we face every day — perilous geopolitical tensions, global warming, and the destruction of our environment, flagrant and egregious acts of cruelty inflicted by humans upon both humans and animals, not to mention hunger, poverty, homelessness, absent or woefully inadequate health care — it’s hard to know where to stop. For most of us, it is mind-numbing to think of what needs to be done to make even a small impact, let alone to solve the overwhelming problems of the world....]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Hutson Says, &#8220;Enough!&#8221; to Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Hutson serves as the director of communications for the Enough Project  in Washington, D.C. Enough is a part of the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank. Not long ago, a director of communications would have been confined to print, television, and radio to spread an organization’s message. Today, it’s a whole new game, with social media gaining in prominence as the medium of choice.

Fittingly, Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) first became aware of Hutson through Twitter, where WeFollow.com ranks Hutson (@JonHutson) as among the most influential Tweeters on human rights and justice. We asked Hutson to tell us about the Enough Project and how they use social media to further the organization’s critically important international work....

HUTSON: The Enough Project was launched three years ago, and is helping to build a permanent constituency to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity. We are calling the U.S. and the international community to action -- to witness horrible human rights violations and to take measurable, meaningful action that stops ongoing atrocities and prevents their recurrence.

Here’s the latest example of our work: a witty video by actor/director Brooke Smith and cinematographer Steven Lubensky, called “I’m a Mac… and I’ve Got a Dirty Secret.” It’s about Congo conflict minerals; it spoofs an iconic Apple ad. Since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof launched the video in a column called “Death by Gadget” in the Sunday, June 27, 2010 edition of The New York Times, this video has gone viral. It’s been covered by Gizmodo, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, ComputerWorld, Planet Green, Elephant Journal, TreeHugger, and CNN International. Please take a look and share it with friends....]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty Night Heals Mind, Body, and Spirit for Marginalized Women</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/06/02/beauty-night-heals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsay Render</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Survival sex-workers, drug addicts, and homeless women rarely have an opportunity to feel that someone truly cares about them or to experience human touch in a healthy way. But the volunteers at Beauty Night Society in Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.) are striving to change that.

Caroline MacGillivray is the National Executive Director and Founder of Beauty Night Society. A 1995 graduate of Gastown Actors Studio in Vancouver, her interest in helping marginalized women arose while volunteering at WISH (Women Information Safe House) to conduct research for an upcoming role.

She explains, “My best friend from theater school married a gentleman who was going to school to become a preacher. They were ‘house parents’ at a transition home for sex workers who were trying to get off the street.

“When she would tell what she did, people sometimes seemed judgmental. She’d get questions like, ‘Why are you helping sex workers?’ ‘Why are you helping people with addiction issues? They have no discipline; they have no control,’ and those types of things....]]></description>
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		<title>Full-Circle Learning &#8211; Global Partnerships Unlock Potential</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/04/12/full-circle-learning-unlocks-potential-through-global-partnerships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:14:54 +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>Nominate an &#8220;Ocean Hero&#8221; for Oceana Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/03/24/nominate-an-ocean-hero-for-oceana-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are people around the world who are doing their utmost to stop the destruction of our oceans. People who are putting themselves at risk to make the world’s seas a more habitable place for fish and marine animals. People, including youth, who are making a difference by raising funds to support the work of others. People who not only care about the oceans, but also take action. Each one is a hero, though their efforts may be untrumpeted and little known.

But people who are selflessly working to make the oceans a healthier ecosystem deserve recognition for their efforts.

Do you know anyone who is making a difference to the world’s oceans? If you do, here’s an opportunity to nominate him or her for recognition as an “Ocean Hero,” through a competition sponsored by the conservation group Oceana. Nominations will be accepted at the official contest website, Oceana.org/heroes, until April 18, 2010.
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		<title>What Are You Waiting For? So Act, Already!</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/02/11/what-are-you-waiting-for-so-act-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Stella and Greg Halpern say, “We’re on a mission to build a better world,” they have the credentials to prove it. As the founders of So Act, a new social action network that’s connecting people around the globe, the Halperns are putting their goals into action.

We wanted to know what motivated the couple to create this ambitious network. So Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) spoke with the Halperns while they were traveling in California with their daughters, three talented musicians who go by the name Truth on Earth...]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation with Larry Long, Lifelong Activist and Folksinger</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smithsonian Folkways recording artist Larry Long has been an activist for decades. At various times he has used his musical talents to help organize citizens in protest and in celebration. Throughout his long career, he says he has, “employed art and oral history for the benefit of reconciliation and building community.”

Among Long’s many successful projects was the creation of the Mississippi River Revival. He is a longtime friend of famed folksinger Pete Seeger, whose acclaimed Great Hudson River Revival has been instrumental in cleaning up the Hudson River, and who has mentored Long over the years. Today, Larry Long serves as executive director for a nonprofit called Community Celebration of Place....]]></description>
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		<title>Activists Spread 350 Message &#8216;Round the World (and Here in Iowa)</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/10/26/activists-spread-350-message-round-the-world-and-here-in-iowa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 24, 2009, in what may well be the largest environmental action yet to occur, 350.org mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to make a statement about climate change. From the Maldives sea floor to the pyramids of Giza, from the Sydney Opera House to the Eiffel Tower, from a rooftop in Shanghai to the steps of the Old Capitol on the campus of the University of Iowa — across the planet, in 181 countries — we stood, swam, danced, climbed, rode, kayaked, bungee jumped, surfed, dove, sat, lay, or did any number of other creative actions in protest and a plea.

Why?

Scientists calculate that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is currently at 390 parts per million (ppm). They also tell us that the only safe level is 350 ppm or below. We need some carbon in our atmosphere — until the Industrial Revolution it was about 275 ppm — but we're in the danger zone now, and global warming is causing devastating changes. ...]]></description>
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		<title>It Rained on Our Parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Hennager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had not rained in Iowa City for eleven days. We had been experiencing a cooler than usual June, with day after day of amazingly great temperatures and low humidity. I should have known it wouldn’t last.

Iowa weather usually acts like a spoiled child and demands constant attention. The minute you look away, it will catch you in snow without a coat or a thunderstorm without an umbrella. Or the temperature will rise 30 degrees in a few hours and put you in a dripping sweat because you're not wearing shorts. These are facts of life in Iowa. I forgot. I lowered my guard. I did not schedule a rain date.

For months, I had been focusing on creating a Fourth of July, New Orleans-style, second-line, jazz funeral march. This was to be a symbolic funeral for the Iowa River, held by volunteers from our Facebook group, Save The Iowa River (STIR). The planning went on: a casket, pallbearers, news coverage, musicians, music, marchers, signs, bottles filled with water from the Iowa River, parade permit, first aid kit, parking, tables, tent. When the word rain came to mind, I just told myself that there would be lots of umbrellas at the march anyway, in keeping with the motif; so, if it did rain, everything would work out just fine...]]></description>
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		<title>My 5: Robyn O&#8217;Brien, Allergy Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/06/26/my-5-robyn-obrien-allergy-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Planet Green Living asked author Robyn O'Brien, "What are the five most important things we can do to save the planet?"

ROBYN O'BRIEN:

    * Accept that DOING ONE SMALL THING can make a difference! ...
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		<title>The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/05/06/the-unhealthy-truth-how-our-food-is-making-us-sick-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday’s post, Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) talked with Robyn O’Brien to find out what motivated her to start AllergyKids, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting children with food allergies. In Part 2 of this two-part interview, O'Brien tells us more about O’Brien’s book, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It, which was released by Random House yesterday.]]></description>
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		<title>AllergyKids Founder Seeks to Protect Children from Harmful Foods</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/05/05/allergykids-founder-seeks-to-protect-children-from-harmful-foods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 23:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If someone asked you to define a pivotal experience that changed the course of your life, would you have to think long and hard before answering? For Robyn O’Brien, the event is as vivid as when it occurred more than three years ago. O’Brien is the founder of AllergyKids, an organization dedicated to protecting children with allergies from being harmed by the very foods they eat. She is also the author of The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It, which was released for sale by Random House today...]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson Inspires Us Still</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2009/04/21/earth-day-founder-gaylord-nelson-inspires-us-still/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Hennager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day, passed away in 2005, leaving a legacy that resonates within every article you will read in this environmental magazine. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, back before I ever imagined running a magazine — or had the slightest hint of the electronic revolution yet to come — I was engaged in campus protests against the Viet Nam War. Though our main concern was the war, my fellow student activists and I took began to take on an additional focus, a whole new cause: the environment.

For many of us, pollution was just another symbol of how out of touch our government was with its people. By turning a blind eye to the egregious environmental crimes of big businesses, the government was slowly killing us. If “The Man” didn’t get us killed in Viet Nam, he was allowing us to be poisoned by the industrial machine. Our air, our water, our soil were being sold to the highest bidder. And our voices were being suppressed to keep us in check....]]></description>
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