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		<title>Announcing the 2013 Whitley Award Winner &#8211; Eugene Simonov</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/05/announcing-the-2013-whitley-award-winner-eugene-simonov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 21:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Pacific Environment is proud to announce the winner of the 2013 Whitley Award – our own Eugene Simonov. The award is well deserved; it recognizes Eugene’s talent, years of hard work, dedication, and his tremendous impact on the environment in his community and beyond. Eugene joined Pacific Environment as the Conservation Science Specialist in February [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arctic – the New Wild West</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/05/the-arctic-the-new-wild-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Harun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Centuries ago, European settlers stumbled upon the New World, a pristine world teaming with wildlife and abundance. Immediately the race was on to exploit these resources which were thought to be limitless. We now know what happened to the great northern forests, the prairie, the buffalo and the Native Americans who depended on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Among Coal’s Toxic Emissions</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/05/among-coals-toxic-emissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 19:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zhao Zhong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capacity-Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 3, 2013, I met two girls playing outside their rural home in the Xigu District near Lanzhou, in Gansu Province, China. Like most kids, they were playful and full of laughter, but unlike most kids, these girls are only allowed to play outside for a limited time every day. I traveled to Xigu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Endangered Whales from Big Oil</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/04/save-endangered-whales-from-big-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/04/save-endangered-whales-from-big-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oceans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Sakhalin Island, sometimes called “The Edge of the Earth” lies off the coast of Russia and just north of Japan and looks out onto the vast Pacific Ocean. The beautiful island is already home to two large scale oil extraction projects led by Exxon, Shell, and Gazprom, with highly detrimental effects on the ocean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is the U.S. Okay with Trashing the Arctic?</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/dont-mess-with-the-arctic-our-push-to-ban-garbage-dumping-in-arctic-waters/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/dont-mess-with-the-arctic-our-push-to-ban-garbage-dumping-in-arctic-waters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Harun</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=2485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When you throw a piece of trash from your car window, or get rid of your old computer in the woods anywhere in the United States, you’re violating littering or dumping laws, and chances are that you’d have to pay a fine if caught red-handed. But when it comes to the Arctic, our representatives think it’s okay to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law Students Help Chinese Grassroots Activists Challenge Polluters</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/law-students-help-chinese-grassroots-activists-challenge-polluters/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/law-students-help-chinese-grassroots-activists-challenge-polluters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=2459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; At the orientation meeting for Pacific Environment’s new environmental law internship program in China this past weekend, I walked with a group of law students down a broad Qingdao street toward dinner.  “Maybe we’ll come back to Qingdao to start our own environmental group when we graduate,” one of them said, and the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Warming Arctic Threatens Subsistence Communities</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/food-sovereignty-and-native-people-in-the-arctic/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/food-sovereignty-and-native-people-in-the-arctic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=2445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Back in January, I was asked to present on the topic of food sovereignty and climate change for the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples conference. As I was mulling over what to say, it dawned on me that most issues and threats that indigenous communities are facing today are quite similar, regardless of where they live. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAIPON Reinstated: “A Collective Achievement”</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/raipon-reinstated-a-collective-achievement/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/raipon-reinstated-a-collective-achievement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Rodion Sulyandziga was able to breathe a sigh of relief last week when Russia’s Ministry of Justice announced that the country&#8217;s leading indigenous organization would be allowed to operate again. For Rodion, an indigenous Udege from the Russian Far East, the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, or RAIPON, represents a life’s work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Rest for Shell Oil and President Obama</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/take-action-no-rest-for-shell-oil-and-president-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/03/take-action-no-rest-for-shell-oil-and-president-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore drilling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I was hopeful that some real progress would be made when the Department of the Interior suspended Shell’s drilling program in the Arctic because of the company’s chain of embarrassing failures and near-disasters in 2012.  But last week, the government’s 60-day investigation of Shell’s Arctic drilling program mainly confirmed what we already knew: Shell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Power in Rural Siberia</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/02/solar-power-in-rural-siberia/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2013/02/solar-power-in-rural-siberia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Altai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Thanks to Oksana Engoyan, traditional shepherds now carry solar cells instead of diesel generators to their summer pastures in Altai’s mountains. Sandwiched along the border with Mongolia and China, Altai is a remote mountainous region in southern Siberia populated largely by herders and small farmers who have to deal with heating and electricity shortages [...]]]></description>
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