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		<title>Ecotopia #76  Eco-Housing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our guest tonight is Dr. Stuart W. Rose, author of Sustainability: A Personal Journey to a Built Sustainable Community . . . And an Amazing Picture of What Life Will Soon Be Like. Stuart Rose is an architect and structure engineer, and tonight we’ll be talking with him about his “Garden Atriums” project, a pilot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/03/12/ecotopia-76-eco-housing/</link>
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		<title>Ecotopia #75 Sustainable Costa Rica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2 March 2010
Tonight’s program is called “Sustainable Costa Rica.”  We just returned from three weeks in Costa Rica, where we volunteered on a sustainable farm and visited several nature reserves and studied Costa Rica’s efforts at going green. In addition to reviewing some of those efforts (and not ignoring problems and complications), we will play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/03/02/ecotopia-75-sustainable-costa-rica/</link>
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		<title>Ecotopia #74  World Hunger&#8211;One Year Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[23 February 2010
Last week on Ecotopia we spoke with Laurie Mazur of the Population Justice Project who described the interconnectedness of a number of issues, including population, climate, and the world economy.  Tonight we approach many of those same issues through the lens of the world’s food supply. Our guest iswill be Gawain Kripke, Director [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/02/02/ecotopia-74-world-hunger-one-year-later/</link>
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		<title>Ecotopia #73  A Pivotal Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we are exploring the issue of population growth. Our guest will be Laurie Mazur, editor of a new book called A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge.
Background on Population Growth
We’ll start with an excerpt from a United Nations Report, from its department of Economic and Social Affairs, WORLD POPULATION TO 2300, regarded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/02/02/ecotopia-73-a-pivotal-moment/</link>
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		<title>Ecotopia #72  Route 99</title>
		<description><![CDATA[9 February 2010
Tonight we are going to depart from our usual format to focus on the literature of place, specifically, Calfornia’s beloved Route 99. We’ll be drawing primarily on a wonderful anthology edited by Stan Yogi for the California Council for the Humanities.  It’s called Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley.
Background [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/02/02/ecotopia-72-route-99/</link>
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		<title>Ecotopia #71 Healthy Soils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2 February 2010
Tonight we’re talking about the Education conference of the California Certified Organic Farmers which is being held this coming weekend, February 6-7,at the Chico State Campus; specifically at the University Farm Pavilion. The theme of the conference is “Healthy Soils, Healthy Food.”
We’ll be talking with two organic farmers who are on a panel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/02/02/ecotopia-71-healthy-soils/</link>
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		<title>Ecotopia #70 Voluntary Simplicity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we’ll be talking with Duane Elgin, author of a new edition of Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich. We’ll learn how this movement has changed and developed almost 30 years since he wrote this book.
Background on the Voluntary Simplicity Movement

The concept of voluntary simplicity is as old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/01/25/ecotopia-70-voluntary-simplicity/</link>
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		<title>Ecotopia #69 Environmental Literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we’ll be talking with Scott Slovic, professor of English at University of Nevada, Reno. He’ll be talking with us about his field of study—literature and the environment, as well as describing a new project he’s been working on, “The Literature of Sustainability.”
Our Discussion with Scott Slovic
 
On the phone with us is Scott Slovic, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/01/25/ecotopia-69-environmental-literature/</link>
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		<title>Ecotopia #68   A Wild and Scenic Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[12 January 2010
Tonight our focus is on the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, “Fresh, Local, Wild,” which will be taking place in Nevada  City this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  We’ll chat with Kathy Dotson, Director of the Festival, and with three filmmakers whose work will be shown over the weekend.  In addition, our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2010/01/11/ecotopia-68-a-wild-and-scenic-film-festival/</link>
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		<title>#66 A Sustainable Northstate New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 29, 2009
Tonight’s topic on Ecotopia is “A Sustainable Northstate New Year,” and we’ll have several guests from the community talking about their Ecotopian visions for the coming year.  First we’ll talk with Chico Mayor Ann Schwab about priorities for the city. Second, we’ll meet with Nicki Schlaishunt and Mary Muchowski of the Butte Environmental Council [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ecotopiakzfr.net/2009/12/30/66-a-sustainable-northstate-new-year/</link>
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