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		<title>Rethinking Global Finance (I)</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3152.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time we find ourselves preoccupied with personal and local issues with reference to developing sustainable lifestyles.]]></description>
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		<title>Pesticide Ban in Manitoba</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3140.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Manitoba government recently gave notice that it is leaning toward banning the use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes.]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Development = Wellbeing?</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3127.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada has become an energy giant – at least this is what Wikipedia says. According to the US Energy Information Administration, Canadian oil reserves are the second largest in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>When in Doubt, Use Caution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When in doubt, proceed with caution! When an input is scarce, use it sparingly! To my way of thinking, these are two core conservative values.]]></description>
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		<title>Local, Efficient Protein Production</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3103.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meat! I like meat. I also like eggs, cheese and other milk products. Meat, eggs, milk and plants contain amino acids that form proteins.]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Running out of Miracles</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3090.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not have noticed. Today we do not treat medical infections the way we treated those twenty years ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Organic Farming Become Mainstream?</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3075.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had someone asked me five years ago to describe the organic food industry, I would have placed organic food production somewhere on the fringe.]]></description>
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		<title>Everything we thought we knew is wrong!</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3060.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, maybe not everything. But what if some of our core beliefs about how the world works turn out to be seriously flawed?]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: Extraordinary Canadians</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3045.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penguin Canada recently released a biography of Tommy Douglas, one volume of their Extraordinary Canadians series.]]></description>
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		<title>What About Wood Heating</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3028.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of columns on home design and home heating with a view to energy efficiency would not be complete without a discussion of the potential wood has for heating our homes.]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Towards the Sun &#8211; Globally</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3011.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can anyone doubt that there is a need, world wide, to reduce our dependence on dirty fossil fuels to create energy.]]></description>
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		<title>Building for Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2989.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems today's home owners and home builders would rather bury their heads in the sand than work at envisioning the future.]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Heating Reduces our Vulnerability</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2973.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I considered solar heating as a way of heating our homes applying the usual economic grid.]]></description>
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		<title>Does Solar Thermal Make Sense Economically?</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2953.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who has used a black garden hose in summer knows that solar energy will heat water.]]></description>
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		<title>Lights Out&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2932.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although it was only 8:30 p.m. , the temperature outside had slipped to minus 25 Celsius. John and Mary were enjoying a quiet evening in their home on First Street in Steinbach when the lights went out.]]></description>
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		<title>Electricity and Resilience</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2916.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking recently about how reliable our electrical power supply really is.]]></description>
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		<title>The Keystone XL Pipeline is Rejected: So?</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2896.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2896.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline.]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization and Resilience</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2882.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2882.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globalization is what we call the process of the world becoming a smaller place.]]></description>
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		<title>An Ode to Walking, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2870.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2870.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I suggested that there is merit in walking because it takes the world on its terms.]]></description>
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		<title>An Ode to Walking Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2852.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is the kind of congratulations-to-self that occasionally sits in my mind when I find myself walking while others drive.]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Ride My Bicycle</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2831.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2831.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were I to choose a personal zodiac, 2011 would be the year of the Bicycle.]]></description>
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		<title>Too Many Disposable Diapers</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2801.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We pick up thousands of [disposable] diapers on a daily basis," states Eldon Wallman from the Steinbach landfill. This calculates to around half a million diapers being delivered to rot in our own small landfill every year.]]></description>
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		<title>We Need a Resource Consumption Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2712.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most taxes in Canada do not encourage the right activities. Behavior that should be encouraged is taxed, and behavior that should be discouraged has no tax.]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Land, Not Buildings</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2695.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2695.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fundamentally, most tax structures in Canada are doing the very opposite of what they ought to be doing: they tax behavior that should be encouraged and don’t tax behavior that should be discouraged.]]></description>
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		<title>Giving to the Earth this Year</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2680.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time of gift giving is upon us. Most people spend many hours planning and shopping for loved ones. Sadly, most items in our stores are manufactured from cheap plastics or thin metals that break quickly.]]></description>
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		<title>Slowing Down</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2666.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been thinking about slowing down. Of course, say my friends, you have reached retirement and so that is a legitimate proposition.]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary Simplicity</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2655.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard about a survey that found that those young adults who carry the most debt are also the one who feel most empowered with their finances.]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Ride My Bicycle</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2641.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three reasons, really! It is good for my health, it is economical, and it is the only sensible thing to do if one takes the long view.]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Summer Shine</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2624.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks ago, Ruth and I harvested a dozen large, organically-grown cabbages from our garden.]]></description>
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		<title>The Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After our last column about a Steady State Economy, I heard from David Dawson who lives at La Broquerie. David agreed with the column, but thought the language got a little too complex at places.]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting the Steady State Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human family is about to get a little bigger. According to the United Nations, the global population will reach seven billion this Halloween - on October 31, 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Growth Always Good?</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2581.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a conversation with a local farmer who reflected that the farm work he was able to complete before breakfast today, would have taken his father, in his time, the best part of a week to complete.]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration to Rethink</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2536.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground.]]></description>
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		<title>Election Timidity</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2526.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely, it is reasonable to ask why it is that those currently vying for political office in Manitoba are studiously avoiding the truly important issues we are facing.]]></description>
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		<title>Why South Eastman Transition Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2516.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people are concerned about the impact our lifestyle has on others, both "others" as those living elsewhere in this world now, as well as "others" as future generations.]]></description>
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		<title>Simply in Season</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2507.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, Mennonite Central Committee published a cook book called, "Simply in Season."]]></description>
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		<title>It is Time to &#8220;Raid&#8221; Manitoba Hydro</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2492.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manitoba Hydro is important to Manitobans. It has allowed us to harness the vast energy potential of our rivers, so is a so it is not surprising that the routing of the BiPole III and talk of privatizing Hydro are already significant election issues.]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving the Harvest</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2477.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days normal February fare on our dinner tables is fresh lettuce and tomatoes. We don't even consider it a luxury.]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Recycle the Phosphate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of this blog will have noted that two weeks ago I wrote about the pending worldwide scarcity of phosphate. Last week I wrote about the pollution caused by phosphate. This week I deal with some ways of addressing both problems.]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens to the Phosphate?</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2445.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about the need to respect nature's phosphate cycle. After all, the world supply of accessible phosphate is limited.]]></description>
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		<title>Nature&#8217;s Phosphate Cycle</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2425.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nature moves in cycles. The most common cycles are the carbon, nitrogen and phosphate cycle, but there are others.]]></description>
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		<title>Purposeful Exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2365.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our push-button lifestyles emerged in the 20th century along with the introduction of electricity.]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Systems Agriculture</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2350.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the annual field day of the Natural Systems Agriculture program of the University of Manitoba.]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for Alternatives</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2331.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old habits die hard. Usually we have to be thoroughly convinced that the old way of doing things is harmful or not sustainable and that an alternative way is better before we make a move to change our lifestyles.]]></description>
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		<title>So What about the Biodiesel Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2318.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since July 1st we have had a national bio-diesel mandate. All diesel, whether for transportation, farming or home heating is to include 2% bio-diesel.]]></description>
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		<title>Made of Sugar</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2300.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I resisted getting wet as a child, my mother used to say that I wasn’t made of sugar, so I would be alright.]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Picnics</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2289.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, after a cool and wet spring, we have arrived at the summer picnic season!]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradox of Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2262.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The advent of more efficient electric lights ought to be hailed as a great step forward for energy conservation, since lighting consumes a hefty 6.5 percent of the world’s energy supply.]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk about our Lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2246.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find critical thinking, particularly about the way I live and the life choices I make, inherently uncomfortable.]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty Years</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2233.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years, in terms of our planet, is a drop in the bucket; but in terms of the way we humans change our world, and change the way we interact with it and with each other, twenty years holds an awful lot of change.]]></description>
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