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		<title>If a Tree Falls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A favorite quote among activists is Margaret Mead&#8217;s old encouragement: &#8220;Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” It’s a good rallying cry for the hopelessly outnumbered, which seemed a fair description of the two dozen people who gathered outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/03/16/if-a-tree-falls/</link>
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		<title>Big Projects, Little Protests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The Canadian lifestyle is an act of terrorism against the rest of the world.” I heard this assessment of our national modus operandi unleashed by Usman Majeed, a young activist. He was one of the speakers at two conferences I attended last weekend: one on ‘Environmental Racism’ and the other titled ‘Why I oppose the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/03/05/big-projects-little-protests/</link>
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		<title>Reality School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have come across a television show last year that featured celebrities visiting strange places: MIA in Liberia; Cameron Diaz on the Peruvian altiplano; Joaquin Phoenix, well before his exotic journey into hip-hop, dancing in a grass skirt deep inside the Amazon. The spirit of activism came quickly across – these celebrities were out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/02/23/reality-school/</link>
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		<title>Something Wicked&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 12, news media across the country celebrated the preversary of the 2010 Winter Olympics. That’s my word for a date marking one-year-to-the-day before something happens, the kind of non-event beloved by news editors because of all the copy it enables. Fair enough; too many issues go unreported for lack of timeliness, after all. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/02/13/something-wicked-vancouver-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Our sun-starved nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you paused lately to consider how extraordinary it is that our bodies can turn sunlight into bone? Vancouver&#8217;s winter cloud blanket has prompted some nostalgic investigation into the process by which that takes place (or would if I were living somewhere else), with some surprising results. Very roughly speaking, the magic begins when ultraviolet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/01/30/our-sun-starved-nation/</link>
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