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		<title>Bridge to a Cool Planet Announces The Winners of its Writing Contest!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who submitted their writing on nature and climate change to the Creative Writing Contest for Bridge to a Cool Planet. The contest is now closed. Our judges have declared the winners of  the contest and we are happy to announce their names here! We encourage writers to continue to submit creative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=456&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Step Forward Two Steps Back, by Angelica Poversky, Age 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my pencil touches the paper, My hopes that my thoughts won’t go to waste, The paper that I am holding Has lived in that disgrace. Not being given the highest hope, Not being used in every way, Living-care free, Should not see another day. Everything that others want, It will never be true, If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=450&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Moment After, by Kathleen Downie</title>
		<link>http://ecobirdy.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/a-moment-after-by-kathleen-downie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rain pressed upon me gently Drops like fingertips embracing my face I met their touch with joy That cool, late spring rain Arrived as if to satisfy some deep longing To be bathed in the sweetness of not knowing Gently the embrace encircled my toes The delicate swirls of water inviting me to dance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=391&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turtle and the Water, by Azlen Elza, written at 7</title>
		<link>http://ecobirdy.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/turtle-in-the-pond-by-azlen-elza-written-at-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a pond in a river a river in an ocean and an ocean in a turtle’s eye Illustration, P. Cisneros Posted in Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=388&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Nothing, by Mina Elza</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lying in the snow Sun blazing through gnarled roots Almost a part of me Ocean of clouds Mountains like Islands Sky Speckled with clouds Like snowflake obsidian Frost glistens on the roots Roots in a dome A bent tree above me Hands behind my head Feet resting on the roots Silence Posted in Climate Change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=370&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Locarno Beach, Vancouver, by Pat Ajello</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is August 16th, 8:40 p.m., the sun already slipping into the Strait of Georgia. Eight fishers, strung out along the curving shoreline, have tossed out their fragile nets for smelt. Turning to the west, I am immediately struck by a scene familiar from photographs in a thousand National Geographics, from the pages of countless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=365&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lament for Mulliativu, by Sarah Dobbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh green lush Sri Lanka, Teardrop of India, The world weeps for you, and leaves Unwanted salt water tears To flush away memories. Such betrayal from Mother Ocean, Once nurturing and generous, A deep rumbling within her womb Angered her to rise and lash out at your people For whom loss is not foreign Surviving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=333&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpts from &#8220;Kayak&#8221;, by Jordan Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from KAYAK, by Jordan Hall KAYAK has received Canada Council support to attend Women’s Playwright’s International (November 1-7, Mumbai, India) and will be presented as part of Tableau D’Hôte’s Series of New Canadian Works this December in Montreal. *** ANNIE IVERSEN, a tall woman with peroxide blonde hair, sits centre stage in a large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=329&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Weather Makers, by Matt Rader</title>
		<link>http://ecobirdy.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/the-weather-makers-by-matt-rader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We carry it with us wherever we go, like germs or secrets, genetic pre-dispositions to illness. It dogs us, has our scent, our number, an uncanny knack bordering on the psychic to know where we’ll turn up next and be hot on our heels or already there waiting to greet us. A crooked wire of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=318&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Show me Yours, by Richard Van Camp</title>
		<link>http://ecobirdy.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/show-me-yours-by-richard-van-camp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw northern lights last night. Nice and big across the sky: 1:30. Green. We saw baby ones trying to swim like little faint feathers so we helped them by rubbing our fingernails together and whistling and they swam, boy. Swam and reached across the sky and it was the stairway to heaven kind, the kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecobirdy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9558199&amp;post=314&amp;subd=ecobirdy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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