<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - mf-3735877's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/</link><description>Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 6 May 2012 16:22:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:30:54 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Lawns are overrated - Say no to Monoculture!</title>
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Wandering physically and mentally as I do I've observed a lot of lawns in my time. Now I like grass a whole lot better than asphalt or concrete, but it seems like many homeowners have perverted lawns. You see people mowing them, applying weed and feed products, and watering (oft&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/06/11564675-lawns-are-overrated-say-no-to-monoculture</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/06/11564675-lawns-are-overrated-say-no-to-monoculture</guid><category>gardening</category><category>permaculture</category><category>home-garden</category><category>lawns</category><category>urban-homestead</category><category>intensive-gardening</category><pubDate>Sun, 6 May 2012 16:20:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877C82B092E-1BB7-3311-BB0C-779623ED427D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877C82B092E-1BB7-3311-BB0C-779623ED427D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Saturday Morning&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877D8602EE6-FB80-F17C-5B05-62CC8C8AFAD6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="311" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877D8602EE6-FB80-F17C-5B05-62CC8C8AFAD6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Saturday Evening&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877B3CCAAF5-690D-547D-FEB0-9946F184AB4E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="465" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877B3CCAAF5-690D-547D-FEB0-9946F184AB4E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="140" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The landscaping crew&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Attack of the Butterflies</title>
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Does anybody know what kind of butterflies these are? I must of seen them before and not paid much attention so why now? Because there are thousands of them in my yard and neighborhood all of a sudden. I've never seen that many butterflies of any type in one place at one time. D&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/03/11527129-attack-of-the-butterflies</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/03/11527129-attack-of-the-butterflies</guid><category>nature</category><category>environment</category><category>wildlife</category><category>butterfly</category><category>insects</category><category>flowers</category><category>butterflies</category><pubDate>Fri, 4 May 2012 00:02:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf37358772FEA2CED-DB49-F103-C363-2FFA240ED6F0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="338" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf37358772FEA2CED-DB49-F103-C363-2FFA240ED6F0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="102" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Who am I?&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877C9FCBAD6-19A4-F276-DEB8-E2EB8A5F9625.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877C9FCBAD6-19A4-F276-DEB8-E2EB8A5F9625.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Why is this weird guy pointing that thing at me?&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877067A95B6-AAE5-12FD-8D78-743B4582E4B3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="242" width="310" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877067A95B6-AAE5-12FD-8D78-743B4582E4B3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;You're standing in poison ivy.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf37358777D3B7D78-ABFB-C90A-92C1-81BE2C2715BF.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="333" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf37358777D3B7D78-ABFB-C90A-92C1-81BE2C2715BF.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="100" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Hold still!&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>WTF, GOP? | Mother Jones</title>
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Dear Republicans: You shoulda had this election in the bag. But then you took a long detour to Crazytown.

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<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/16/11233799-wtf-gop-mother-jones</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/16/11233799-wtf-gop-mother-jones</guid><category>elections</category><category>women</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>lunatics</category><category>tea-party</category><category>teabaggers</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:40:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877B1A231ED-4480-465A-946F-5E48DC68F01A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877B1A231ED-4480-465A-946F-5E48DC68F01A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Professor: If you want to roll the climate dice, you should know the odds</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gideon Polya]]></source><link>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/16/11233439-professor-if-you-want-to-roll-the-climate-dice-you-should-know-the-odds</link><guid>http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/16/11233439-professor-if-you-want-to-roll-the-climate-dice-you-should-know-the-odds</guid><category>us</category><category>weather</category><category>warming</category><category>climate</category><category>climate-change</category><category>obama</category><category>world-news</category><category>dice</category><category>greenhouse</category><category>statistics</category><category>co2</category><category>ghg</category><category>amerca</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:05:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=gpolyaB48B4D50-DEC3-1B7C-1174-75291B0AC17D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="212" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=gpolyaB48B4D50-DEC3-1B7C-1174-75291B0AC17D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="64" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The GOP Tries to Woman Up | The Nation</title>
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You can&rsquo;t blame Republicans for wanting to change the subject. Rush Limbaugh&rsquo;s slut-shaming of Sandra Fluke turned into an unmitigated disaster for the GOP, making clear how the campaign to defund Planned Parenthood&mdash;supported by all the pillars of the party, i&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/12/11170766-the-gop-tries-to-woman-up-the-nation</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/12/11170766-the-gop-tries-to-woman-up-the-nation</guid><category>women</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>poltics</category><category>womens-rights</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:49:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mitt Romney: Climate Flip-flopper and Fracking Defender </title>
<description><![CDATA[This id the best the GOP has to offer?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/08/11087908-mitt-romney-climate-flip-flopper-and-fracking-defender</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/08/11087908-mitt-romney-climate-flip-flopper-and-fracking-defender</guid><category>energy</category><category>global-warming</category><category>politics</category><category>climate-change</category><category>romney</category><category>flip-flop</category><category>fracking</category><pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 23:59:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf373587797984E41-54BC-9E01-F0B2-BB37C4AB4029.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf373587797984E41-54BC-9E01-F0B2-BB37C4AB4029.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Natural gas glut means drilling boom must slow</title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Fahey]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Fahey]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/08/11082439-natural-gas-glut-means-drilling-boom-must-slow</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/08/11082439-natural-gas-glut-means-drilling-boom-must-slow</guid><category>business</category><category>natural-gas</category><category>gas</category><category>us-news</category><category>glut</category><category>natural-gas-glut</category><category>us-natural-gas</category><pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 11:57:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/bec3ff04-834f-4248-8142-ee8cde689d91.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="365" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/bec3ff04-834f-4248-8142-ee8cde689d91.jpg" width="120" height="110" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this July 27, 2011, file photo, a pair of workers are behind the top of a pump where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas is underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the countrys swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are quickly retrenching. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8229344b-3409-431a-87fd-aa41781de9dc.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8229344b-3409-431a-87fd-aa41781de9dc.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 22, 2008 file photo, a natural gas well pad sits in front of the Roan Plateau near the Colorado mountain community of Rifle. The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the countrys swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are quickly retrenching. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/2f4407aa-78d9-4d57-9a86-292c93cd835d.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="226" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/2f4407aa-78d9-4d57-9a86-292c93cd835d.jpg" width="120" height="272" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this July 27, 2011, file photo, Range Resources site manager Don Robinson stands with the rods that connect to drill into the shale at a well site in Washington, Pa. The company is one of many drilling and &quot;fracking&quot; in the area to release natural gas. The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the countrys swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are quickly retrenching. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Small Town's Police Blotter Is A Riot</title>
<description><![CDATA[And you think small towns are boring. Law and disorder with a creative twist.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/07/11077244-small-towns-police-blotter-is-a-riot</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/07/11077244-small-towns-police-blotter-is-a-riot</guid><category>police</category><category>crime</category><category>humor</category><category>stupidity</category><category>not-news</category><category>small-town</category><pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 00:41:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877B4045C34-1C99-8472-497A-A378017CE2CA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877B4045C34-1C99-8472-497A-A378017CE2CA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>What is the purpose of the United States?</title>
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What is the purpose of the United States of America?

To make people rich? No.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/11007857-what-is-the-purpose-of-the-united-states</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/11007857-what-is-the-purpose-of-the-united-states</guid><category>us-news</category><category>poor</category><category>rich</category><category>inequality</category><category>wealth</category><category>tax-loopholes</category><category>ows</category><category>gop-budget</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:45:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf37358775716D1D5-9444-D2F8-2ED9-DACA596C18E8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf37358775716D1D5-9444-D2F8-2ED9-DACA596C18E8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Diagnosing the Republican Brain | Mother Jones</title>
<description><![CDATA[Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over and   expecting a different outcome, and that's precisely where our country   stands now with regard to the conservative denial of reality. For a long   time, we've been trained to equivocate, to not to see it for   &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat P11111]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Pat P11111]]></source><link>http://PatP11111.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/30/10943417-diagnosing-the-republican-brain-mother-jones</link><guid>http://PatP11111.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/30/10943417-diagnosing-the-republican-brain-mother-jones</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:25:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PatP11111F4A79148-DB80-9F3A-6DD6-8B5E2D8C92C0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=PatP11111F4A79148-DB80-9F3A-6DD6-8B5E2D8C92C0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why Nobody Takes Ending Oil Subsidies Seriously</title>
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it is completely unremarkable that Republicans should curry favor to oil companies. Republicans and Big Oil are on the same team, see—of course they have the same horse in the race. But you'd be hard pressed to find a mainstream reporter point out any inherent ideological dis&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/29/10929462-why-nobody-takes-ending-oil-subsidies-seriously</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/29/10929462-why-nobody-takes-ending-oil-subsidies-seriously</guid><category>politics</category><category>big-oil</category><category>oil-subsidies-bill</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:39:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877483AD1DA-6E12-AE82-C492-9AEBEDB5D35A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877483AD1DA-6E12-AE82-C492-9AEBEDB5D35A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>A Message From A Republican Meteorologist On Climate Change</title>
<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m going to tell you something that my Republican friends are loath to admit out loud: climate change is real.
I am a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative; a fan of small government, accountability, self-empowerment, and sound science. I am not a climate scientist. &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperSaiyan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[SuperSaiyan]]></source><link>http://SuperSaiyan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/29/10928112-a-message-from-a-republican-meteorologist-on-climate-change</link><guid>http://SuperSaiyan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/29/10928112-a-message-from-a-republican-meteorologist-on-climate-change</guid><category>environment</category><category>climate-change</category><category>gop-meterologist-stating-that-climate-change-is-real</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:21:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=SuperSaiyan1E51CC7A-0A97-0DB5-D154-F1C589E2326D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=SuperSaiyan1E51CC7A-0A97-0DB5-D154-F1C589E2326D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="161" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Global Warming May Have Fueled March Heat Wave Odds | Climate Central</title>
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Although studies have not yet been conducted on the main factors that triggered this heat wave and whether global warming may have tilted the odds in favor of the event, scientific studies of previous heat events clearly show that global warming increases the odds of heat extre&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/23/10829648-global-warming-may-have-fueled-march-heat-wave-odds-climate-central</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/23/10829648-global-warming-may-have-fueled-march-heat-wave-odds-climate-central</guid><category>global-warming</category><category>science</category><category>climate-change</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:08:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf373587772736A57-1B6D-8215-9D2C-BD1F5E8FD11C.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="309" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf373587772736A57-1B6D-8215-9D2C-BD1F5E8FD11C.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="93" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Corporations Wrote a Law Requiring Climate Denial be Taught in School. Tennessee Just Passed It. : TreeHugger</title>
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One such model bill has just passed the Tennessee state legislature, and this one mandates that schools teach climate science as a theory alongside other 'credible' theories&mdash;like those ones preferred by fossil fuels companies, for example, that hold that global warming is&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10818146-corporations-wrote-a-law-requiring-climate-denial-be-taught-in-school-tennessee-just-passed-it-treehugger</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/22/10818146-corporations-wrote-a-law-requiring-climate-denial-be-taught-in-school-tennessee-just-passed-it-treehugger</guid><category>global-warming</category><category>politics</category><category>poltics</category><category>alec</category><category>climate-change-denial</category><category>climate-skeptics</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:14:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877898453AC-4D7F-5065-6142-352A1059989A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877898453AC-4D7F-5065-6142-352A1059989A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Republicans Are Blocking the Violence Against Women Act | Mother Jones</title>
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standing in the way of the Violence Against Women Act is a strange decision for a party that's spent the last few weeks playing defense on women's rights issues.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/20/10782610-republicans-are-blocking-the-violence-against-women-act-mother-jones</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/20/10782610-republicans-are-blocking-the-violence-against-women-act-mother-jones</guid><category>women</category><category>politics</category><category>violence-against-women</category><category>domestic-abuse</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:07:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877F46C1700-F3C6-F8D1-3C95-2C991123922D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877F46C1700-F3C6-F8D1-3C95-2C991123922D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>  Natural born drillers: Why shale gas won't end our energy woes  | Grist</title>
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Does any of this impact the environment? (Hint: Yes)
If individual shale gas wells are less productive than industry predicted, companies say they will simply drill more wells or simply re-frack wells repeatedly to get more gas flowing. That means more open spaces lost to indu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/12/10652086-natural-born-drillers-why-shale-gas-wont-end-our-energy-woes-grist</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/12/10652086-natural-born-drillers-why-shale-gas-wont-end-our-energy-woes-grist</guid><category>natural-gas</category><category>gas</category><category>drilling</category><category>us-news</category><category>gas-drilling</category><category>energy-policy</category><category>fracking</category><category>shale-gas</category><category>hyfro-fracking</category><category>hyfraulic-fracturing</category><category>alternative-energygeological-survey</category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:59:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877E190A26C-5AA7-957B-F518-48B11B6C0756.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="244" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877E190A26C-5AA7-957B-F518-48B11B6C0756.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="98" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Has Green Failed Because Environmental Donors Have Been Giving to the Wrong Groups?  : TreeHugger</title>
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Floating out under the radar about ten days ago was a new report on philanthropy and the environmental movement, which purports to have at least part of the solution to why, by and large, 1) there have been both been so few major political victories on environmental issues (at &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/06/10591023-has-green-failed-because-environmental-donors-have-been-giving-to-the-wrong-groups-treehugger</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/06/10591023-has-green-failed-because-environmental-donors-have-been-giving-to-the-wrong-groups-treehugger</guid><category>environment</category><category>charities</category><category>engo</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Mar 2012 13:27:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877566DAD16-547A-E624-1399-5741A6B84CCD.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877566DAD16-547A-E624-1399-5741A6B84CCD.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>A bed waiting to be made</title>
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This is a first for me, publishing a photo. This is one of my raised garden beds, complete with headboard, in winter. The little tree immediately behind it is a dwarf peach that is highly productive. The bed is waiting for spring to be made again. Last year it was carrots.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/04/10577858-a-bed-waiting-to-be-made</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/04/10577858-a-bed-waiting-to-be-made</guid><category>gardening</category><category>home-garden</category><category>raised-beds</category><pubDate>Mon, 5 Mar 2012 01:37:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877627BB4F9-D795-DBF1-2386-E87297BF9402.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877627BB4F9-D795-DBF1-2386-E87297BF9402.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Where carrots used to cuddle&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>&amp;quot;The Lorax&amp;quot;: Cue Fox News Freakout | Mother Jones</title>
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The Lorax will feel like nefarious agitprop to those who exist in a world where anything short of being a total ass to trees is akin to letting the terrorists win.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/04/10575449-quotthe-loraxquot-cue-fox-news-freakout-mother-jones</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/04/10575449-quotthe-loraxquot-cue-fox-news-freakout-mother-jones</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>fox</category><category>movies</category><category>fox-news</category><category>right-wing-media</category><pubDate>Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:43:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877D64019FC-AC02-A678-D2D2-A4D66B864826.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877D64019FC-AC02-A678-D2D2-A4D66B864826.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Fracking Bans that Can Stand by Maura Stephens &amp;mdash; YES! Magazine</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/01/10556565-fracking-bans-that-can-stand-by-maura-stephens-mdash-yes-magazine</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/01/10556565-fracking-bans-that-can-stand-by-maura-stephens-mdash-yes-magazine</guid><category>us-news</category><category>new-york-state</category><category>new-york-supreme-court</category><category>fracking</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2012 03:00:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf37358772463D977-687A-6B75-446E-C320E7FCAE1E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="100" width="100" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf37358772463D977-687A-6B75-446E-C320E7FCAE1E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="100" height="100" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong by William D. Nordhaus | The New York Review of Books</title>
<description><![CDATA[Deniers should be careful who they cite! They may be in for an inconvenient surprise.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/01/10556488-why-the-global-warming-skeptics-are-wrong-by-william-d-nordhaus-the-new-york-review-of-books</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/01/10556488-why-the-global-warming-skeptics-are-wrong-by-william-d-nordhaus-the-new-york-review-of-books</guid><category>global-warming</category><category>environment</category><category>climate-change</category><category>denial</category><category>agw</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2012 02:47:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf373587753E8A7C7-AF63-F4CB-7691-0FCFCE4CD1AE.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="319" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf373587753E8A7C7-AF63-F4CB-7691-0FCFCE4CD1AE.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="96" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Since When Was Creating Jobs &amp;amp; Building Community Elitism? : TreeHugger</title>
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To suggest that the people buying 100% local, organic t-shirts from the fields of North Carolina, or focusing their purchasing power on the farming communities that surround them, are elitist is a heinous lie.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/01/10555734-since-when-was-creating-jobs-amp-building-community-elitism-treehugger</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/01/10555734-since-when-was-creating-jobs-amp-building-community-elitism-treehugger</guid><category>us-news</category><category>social-justice</category><category>elitism</category><category>class-warfare</category><category>real-food</category><category>inconvenient-truths</category><category>social-conflict</category><category>ows</category><category>know-your-farmer</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2012 01:19:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf373587774D38B3F-8F81-E9EA-2E06-2792BD2997BA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf373587774D38B3F-8F81-E9EA-2E06-2792BD2997BA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Monty Python and Anthropogenic Global Warming</title>
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&nbsp;
 
A little while back a Newsviner seeded this article: Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning.
As with any article on the allegedly controversial subject of AGW a lively exchange ensued.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/27/10521536-monty-python-and-anthropogenic-global-warming</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/27/10521536-monty-python-and-anthropogenic-global-warming</guid><category>debate</category><category>global-warming</category><category>politics</category><category>climate-change</category><category>loonies</category><category>conspiracy-theorists</category><category>skeptics</category><category>anti-science</category><category>agw</category><category>global-warming-denial</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:28:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877CA72D387-7BCB-4CF2-ED56-DA8064A59076.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="360" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mf3735877CA72D387-7BCB-4CF2-ED56-DA8064A59076.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="108" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Science fights an AGW denier&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Judge Upholds Hydrofracking Ban in Middlefield, N.Y. - NYTimes.com</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mf-3735877]]></source><link>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/25/10505664-judge-upholds-hydrofracking-ban-in-middlefield-ny-nytimescom</link><guid>http://mf3735877.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/25/10505664-judge-upholds-hydrofracking-ban-in-middlefield-ny-nytimescom</guid><category>new-york</category><category>natural-gas</category><category>environment</category><category>gas-drilling</category><category>new-york-state</category><category>state-supreme-court</category><category>fracking</category><category>hydrofracking</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:46:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Fracking debate divides New York landowners </title>
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As the state prepares to lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking, many people debate the risks of leasing mineral rights to extraction companies.
&nbsp;thousands of others along the Pennsylvania border, where rich natural gas deposits underlie forests, &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></source><link>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/19/10450125-fracking-debate-divides-new-york-landowners</link><guid>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/19/10450125-fracking-debate-divides-new-york-landowners</guid><category>poverty</category><category>us-news</category><category>contamination</category><category>u-s-news</category><category>big-business</category><category>fracking</category><category>job-creating</category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:40:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=onesearch4-218679D3A-23DF-E29D-99C7-6B874B431389.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="105" width="187" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=onesearch4-218679D3A-23DF-E29D-99C7-6B874B431389.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>
