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	<title>Iloilo River &#187; Reflections</title>
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	<description>Renewing the Public Realm</description>
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		<title>The Forgotten Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) to raise awareness on the importance of biodiversity all over the world and its value for life on Earth. Biodiversity is defined as the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire planet.
With the slogan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The failure of the global summit on climate change in Copenhagen to strike a binding deal in curbing greenhouse gas emissions should change the campaign landscape for the 2010 elections, given the fact that the Philippines has been identified as a highly vulnerable country to the effects of climate destabilization such as tropical cyclones and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pebble in the water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmentalist Dr. Kristin Treñas, in a text message the other day, questioned why the recent launching of the Metro Iloilo Airshed Governing Board was preceded by a caravan. “They are contradicting themselves,” part of her text message reads. “Do they really know what they are doing?”
The good pediatrician was right. That caravan was not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tubong-tubong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate change has been threatening rice production elsewhere, jeopardizing our food security. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) reported that for every one degree Celsius rise in temperature, there is a corresponding 10 percent drop in rice yield. Rice is very vulnerable to extreme weather and climate change results in the higher incidence of flood, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bioregional Platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the 2010 election approaches, aspirants to various political offices have already started laying down their respective platforms of government as they try to woo voters into backing their candidacies. Some capitalize on good governance catchphrases while others bank on local economic development slogans. There are those who vow to build a city college and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Zoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain once urged everyone to buy land because “they’ve stopped making it.” That may be a good slogan for real estate agents but the law of supply and demand has made land unaffordable to the average citizen. Population is rapidly growing and there is no more land left to accommodate people, most of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster Risk Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before Typhoon Frank devastated Metro Iloilo in June 2008, Guimaras senior planner Evan Anthony Arias, an authority in disaster risk management owing to his experience with the Petron oil spill in 2006, already saw the need to rethink how disasters should be handled in this part of the country, given the fact that Iloilo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics are revealing and convincing. From 27 typhoons recorded in the Philippines during the period 2000-2003, the number jumped to 39 from 2004 to 2007, according to Pag-asa. It also says that the total damages brought about by typhoons increased by 415%, from P4 billion in 2003 to P20.6 billion in 2006. Further, Pag-asa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Calamity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s like clockwork. After a region is hit by a disaster, the immediate response is to put it under a state of calamity to allow local governments to tap five percent of their budget for calamity purposes. This has been the practice for a long time. But most often, the calamity fund of local governments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building resilient communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nereo Lujan</dc:creator>
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Typhoons are here to stay, and they’re getting stronger and stronger as climate change continues to worsen. Rising earth temperature, according to scientists, results to increased evaporation. This then results to an increase in the volume of rainfall. Global warming, reports Greenpeace, “will also induce higher temperature differences between the land and sea surfaces, causing [...]]]></description>
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