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		<title>No Dirty US Coal for China!</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/05/no-dirty-us-coal-for-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 21:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I attended the River Rally in Portland Oregon; this annual event draws hundreds of hard working river activists who gather to discuss policy, tactics, and science, and to celebrate rivers. This was my first time attending the event in over ten years, and I was proud to return with the special goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Three Gorges Dam Stay Number One?</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/04/will-the-three-gorges-dam-stay-number-one/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/04/will-the-three-gorges-dam-stay-number-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=1755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Three Gorges Dam Corporation celebrated their completion of the world’s largest hydropower project by announcing that over 100 engineering innovations had been created during the course of construction. And they boasted breaking several world records to get the dam built, such as the record for the amount of concrete poured at any one time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Activists Visit to US Pacific Northwest to Talk Fire Management</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/04/russian-activists-visit-to-us-pacific-northwest-to-talk-fire-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>audrey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[black carbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fires]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=1745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pacific Environment recently hosted a group of four Russian environmental activists for a really great exchange program which brought them to eastern Washington and northern Idaho to meet with a spectrum of groups that are in varying capacities involved in agricultural burning and wildfire management. Over ten packed days, we met with community advocacy groups, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Banks of the Yellow River</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/03/on-the-banks-of-the-yellow-river/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/03/on-the-banks-of-the-yellow-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province in north-central China, has some of the worst air quality and traffic jams I have seen, even for China. But the city has an optimistic feel. When I visited a few weeks ago, the parks and green spaces were prodigiously adorned with spring festival lighting; and bright silk flowers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Travels with Blue Dalian</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/03/winter-travels-with-blue-dalian/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2012/03/winter-travels-with-blue-dalian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=1709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The city of Dalian, in Liaoning Province, China sits on a peninsula that juts into Bohai, a bay that made news two summers in a row for oil spills caused by offshore drilling. I spent four days here together with staff of Blue Dalian, a grassroots environmental organization that seeks to protect Dalian’s regional water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster in Okhotsk Sea highlights poor regulatory practices in Russian oil industry</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/12/disaster-in-okhotsk-sea-highlights-poor-regulatory-practices-in-russian-oil-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/12/disaster-in-okhotsk-sea-highlights-poor-regulatory-practices-in-russian-oil-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>evan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia’s Kolskaya gas drilling platform sank approximately 200 miles off the coast of Sakhalin Island in the Okhotsk Sea on Saturday after completing an exploratory well on the Western Kamchatka Shelf. At least 16 crew members are dead and another 38 are still missing. Miraculously, 14 people were rescued from the freezing water. Environmental damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APEC Summit without ‘Aloha’</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/11/apec-summit-without-%e2%80%98aloha%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/11/apec-summit-without-%e2%80%98aloha%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freshwater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oceans]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=1684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hawaiian culture places great emphasis on the word “Aloha,” which means love, peace, compassion, and charity. Hawaiians greet and bid farewell to their guests with Aloha. Unfortunately, there was no Aloha at this year’s APEC Summit (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Sadly, a local Hawaiian youth was killed on the first day of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy: How to Avoid Future Blackouts</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/11/energy-how-to-avoid-future-blackouts/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/11/energy-how-to-avoid-future-blackouts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rory Cox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=1676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The blackout that shrouded San Diego in darkness in September demonstrated the problem with relying on power grids as they&#8217;re currently designed. The problem began at a substation in Arizona, and a series of triggering events caused failures all the way to San Onofre nuclear plant on the coast. At the cost of an estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Experience Working with Pacific Environment’s Alaska Program</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/11/my-experience-working-with-pacific-environment%e2%80%99s-alaska-program/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/11/my-experience-working-with-pacific-environment%e2%80%99s-alaska-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/?p=1660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have now spent two amazing months in the United States working as a Community Solutions Program Fellow with Pacific Environment’s Alaska Program.  This experience has  given me a global perspective on the struggles faced by the environmental movement and the natural resource extraction sector and will no doubt improve my work with my home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sosnovka 2011 in Altai</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/10/sosnovka-2011-in-altai/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2011/10/sosnovka-2011-in-altai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>galina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every fall, Pacific Environment gathers the leading environmental experts and activists in Siberia and the Russian Far East for the region’s most anticipated, preeminent strategy meeting. We call it the “Sosnovka Coalition,” in honor of the town where the first meeting was held 13 years ago. Although each Sosnovka meeting is different due to location and [...]]]></description>
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