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		<title>#7Billion: Topic of the Day &#8211; Youth and Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2011/10/7billion-topic-of-the-day-youth-and-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ida Jeng</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Youth Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#7billionactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are some ways that youth can use innovation to create a better world for 7 billion?]]></description>
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		<title>World Contraception Day is For Women’s Rights, But It’s For the Environment, Too</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2011/09/world-contraception-day-is-for-women%e2%80%99s-rights-but-it%e2%80%99s-for-the-environment-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2011/09/world-contraception-day-is-for-women%e2%80%99s-rights-but-it%e2%80%99s-for-the-environment-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Cernansky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Let's talk about the Pill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Contraception Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Rachel Cernansky, blogger at Treehugger.com and winner of the Women Bloggers Deliver contest; excerpted from the original post at Treehugger.com The connection between increased access to family planning and greenhouse gas emissions has been covered here before, but since World Contraception Day was this week and we&#8217;re still so far from where we need to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Thirsty for Change&#8221; fashion show raises awareness about Israeli water conservation</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/thirsty-for-change-fashion-show-raises-awareness-about-israeli-water-conservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging for Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young people]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It takes 400 gallons of water to grow enough cotton for an ordinary t-shirt. A pair of jeans? That&#8217;s 1,800 gallons. And we all know that while some women spend 6 hours every day to get drinking water, others are on a fashion treadmill that swallows gallons and gallons of water from high heel to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecofeminism and the right to water</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/ecofeminism-and-the-right-to-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/ecofeminism-and-the-right-to-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging for Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the right to water and the right of water may seem to be the same thing to many people, the two are extremely different.  I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference on the right to water, where the intersections of these two issues were discussed. The right to water is the idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A gender crisis, a global opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/a-gender-crisis-a-global-opportunity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/a-gender-crisis-a-global-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JGreenblatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging for Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women's rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=4910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may be woman, but I can’t hear you roar. In fact, I can’t hear you at all. Maybe it is because you don’t really have time.  No one can blame you. But maybe if you, and the hundreds of millions of women across the developing world trapped in similar situations, weren’t forced to waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water rights for women and children are essential to the MDGs</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/water-rights-for-women-and-children-are-essential-to-the-mdgs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/10/water-rights-for-women-and-children-are-essential-to-the-mdgs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cbrottler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging for Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Action Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charity Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maternal health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=4942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About one billion people are currently living without one of the most basic human rights, the right to access clean and safe drinking water. This inequity is not just tragic, but is also undermining progress towards achieving all of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 – health, education, economic growth, gender equality; they are all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s hunger hardships spur biotech debate</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/africas-hunger-hardships-spur-biotech-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/africas-hunger-hardships-spur-biotech-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juhie Bhatia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggers Unite!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=4816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center/Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity that draw on multimedia reporting featured on the Pulitzer Gateway to Food Insecurity. Share your own story here. Sunset over farmland in South Africa by Irene2005 on Flickr While there have been significant increases in agricultural productivity in Asia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenpeace unfriends Facebook, and social media takes on&#8230;social media</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/greenpeace-unfriends-facebook-and-social-media-takes-on-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/09/greenpeace-unfriends-facebook-and-social-media-takes-on-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Levine-Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggers Unite!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=4582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Facebook veered away from Environmental Sustainability (MDG7), Greenpeace voiced their concern with a strategy that used Facebook as a platform for change at Facebook. Take a look at how they launched their campaign, and used social media for social good. The &#8220;So Coal Network&#8221;: Confronting Facebook&#8217;s Coal Problem By Jodie Van Horn Mark Zuckerberg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s role in climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/12/womens-role-in-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/12/womens-role-in-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Osa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is crucial that women's voices are included in the dialogue on climate change- in multiple ways.  And it is equally important that women in low-income countries are made part of the global discourse. ]]></description>
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		<title>Global warming and birth control</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/global-warming-and-birth-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/global-warming-and-birth-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joao Luis Freitas Valle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We cannot maintain the level of consumption of resources we have today with 6, 7 or 8 billion people. Sooner or later we will have to make the difficult choice between reducing the population or our standard of living. ]]></description>
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		<title>Let the champions be champions</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/let-the-champions-be-champions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/let-the-champions-be-champions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Bernhardtz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contributors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, we simply cannot exclude such a large group of people, if we are serious in our ambitions to turn the tide. Not tapping into the resource of young people is foolish. Secondly, young people will always be the best experts on youth.]]></description>
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		<title>Nicaragua: Farmers express thoughts on rural development through video</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/nicaragua-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/nicaragua-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliana Rincon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alzar las Voces (Raise the Voices) project in Nicaragua brings farmers in rural communities the possibility to speak out through video. ]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t ignore half of humanity in the climate-change debate</title>
		<link>http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/don%e2%80%99t-ignore-half-of-humanity-out-in-the-climate-change-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kollodge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change and Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenhouse gas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While everyone’s talking about carbon credits and technological solutions to climate change, no one’s talking about the people who are going to be affected most: women.]]></description>
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