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		<title><![CDATA[Beer-based biofuel, trash brigade help turn convention green]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28034177]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; The Democratic Party is using beer-based biofuel and a recycling brigade guarding trash cans to help ease the environmental impact of its convention in Denver this week.  The aim is to have the most environmentally-sustainable convention in modern US history. And the goals are ambitious....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Biofuels, food crops straining world water reserves: experts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28033746]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[STOCKHOLM AFP &#8212; Burgeoning demand for food to feed the world's swelling population, coupled with increased use of biomass as fuel is putting a serious strain on global water reserves, experts said  "If we look at how much more water we will need for food and how much more...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brazil&#39;s biofuel plane fleet grows]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28033324]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BOTUCATU, Brazil AFP &#8212; Brazilian biofuel, already available for nine out of 10 cars on the roads, is also keeping a small but growing fleet of aircraft aloft, the company making them says.  Some 200 single-engine, single-seat Ipanema planes made by Neiva, a subsidiary of Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EU ministers &#39;discover&#39; biofuels not an obligation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS AFP &#8212; European Union energy ministers announced during an informal meeting Saturday that they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels.  Documents issued by the EU since the ambitious energy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Activists outraged by Kenyan biofuel plans on fragile wetland]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI AFP &#8212; Outraged conservationists Monday protested Kenyan plans to grow biofuel crops on a coastal wetland, warning that they will ruin the environment home to 350 species, including endangered ones.  Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB and Nature Kenya said allowing the planting of sugarcane...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EU to open anti-dumping probe into US biodiesel imports]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS AFP &#8212; The European Union will on Friday open anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imports of biofuel from the United States, European sources said.  The move came after the European Commission investigated industry complaints that the US action was hitting Europe's biodiesel industry.  The European Biodiesel Board...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US to blame for economic crisis: Medvedev]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAINT PETERSBURG AFP &#8212; Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday blamed the United States for the world's current economic woes and put forward Russia's growing energy power as a possible solution.  Speaking at a meeting of high-powered business executives in Saint Petersburg, Medvedev said the United States was behind...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Medvedev blames the West for global economic woes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAINT PETERSBURG AFP &#8212; Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday blamed Western countries for the world's current economic woes and said Russia's vast energy reserves could be part of the solution.  Speaking at a meeting of high-powered business executives in Saint Petersburg, Medvedev said the United States was behind...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[World leaders struggle to agree food crisis plan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME AFP &#8212; World leaders battled Wednesday to agree on how to tackle the global food crisis, making multi-billion dollar aid pledges but struggling to agree notably on biofuels, sources said.  In a draft of the final declaration to be agreed Thursday, obtained by AFP, they vowed to use...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brazilian president defends biofuels at UN food summit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME AFP &#8212; Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday defended biofuels, saying they could be an "important tool" against food insecurity, at the start of the UN food summit on spiralling prices.  "Biofuels are not bandits," he said. "To the contrary, if they are produced in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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