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		<title>Feb 2007: Food &#038; energy</title>
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<strong><big>Feeding the Fire:</big>
Food, energy &#38; the spectre of scarcity</strong>

Food and energy: considered together, they offer a powerful lens for understanding the nature and magnitude of the environmental challenges we face. This issue of <em>Briarpatch</em> features contributions from some of the leading visionary thinkers in their fields, including <strong>Richard Heinberg, Helen Caldicott, Nettie Wiebe and others</strong>.]]></description>
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		<title>Dear bedfellow: An open letter to New Democrats, Greens, and progressive Liberals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lorne Brown
Briarpatch Magazine
February 2007
Selective co-operation among parties in several dozen constituencies could deny Stephen Harper control of the country in the next election.
Much of what I am about to say would be unnecessary if Canada had a system of proportional representation like most countries claiming to be democracies. A proportional representation system would ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Editor: The spectre of scarcity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Oswald Mitchell
Briarpatch Magazine
February 2007
&#8220;When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.&#8221;
Rudolf Bahro
I&#8217;VE BEEN TRYING LATELY TO FIND A HEALTHY balance between optimism and pessimism, hope and despair. Surveying the accumulating evidence of out-of-control climate change, pending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gas Beneath Their Feet: Coal bed methane and community resistance in BC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tyler McCreary
Briarpatch Magazine
February 2007
&#8220;Years ago, coal bed methane was known only to coal miners and their canaries.&#8221;

Photo by Pat Moss
THE PICTURESQUE BULKLEY VALLEY, nestled in northwestern British Columbia, presents an idyllic image of rural life. In these lands, the Wet&#8217;suwet&#8217;en First Nation maintain their livelihoods and governance on their traditional territory, while nearby, settlers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Green Devolution: Food, energy &#038; the fate of industrial agriculture</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Heinberg
Briarpatch Magazine
February 2007
&#8220;The energy transition of the twenty-first century is probably the greatest challenge our species has ever faced.&#8221;
Energy and agriculture are intimately linked. A calorie, remember, is a measure of energy. Food itself is energy. To truly understand the trends that will shape the future of agriculture, we need to understand our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Food: The growing challenge of feeding civilization</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Darrin Qualman
Briarpatch Magazine
February 2007
We are now consistently consuming more food than we produce. The implications of this fact will shake the industrial food system to its very roots.

Illustration by Alain Goncalves
HUMANITY IS IN THE FASTEST, most sustained food supply drawdown in the 46-year period for which we have data. Moreover, excepting the World Wars, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burden of Proof: How citizens&#8217; questions shut down uranium enrichment in Port Hope</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with John Miller, Families Against Radiation Exposure
Briarpatch Magazine
February 2007

Illustration by Aimee van Drimmelen

Port Hope, Ontario, has long been at the nucleus of uranium refining in Canada. In 2003, Cameco, the world&#8217;s largest publicly traded uranium company, proposed an expansion of its existing uranium refinery to begin producing enriched uranium&#8212;a process that increases both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resources for education and action on food/energy issues</title>
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February 2007
HUNGRY FOR MORE?
Further reading
&#8220;Locked Dumpsters Full of Mangoes: Hungry people, wasted food, and the politics of dumpster diving&#8221;
Moira Peters
The Dominion
December 4, 2006
Unappeasable customers, bitter bosses and deserted lunch shifts; it is no secret that restaurant work can be soul-crushing. However, the most painful moments in the food industry &#8212; ask anyone who has [...]]]></description>
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