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		<title>Living without energy?</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/energy/living-without-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Ross</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access to energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro hydro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind power]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was slowly waking up, reading the Guardian yesterday morning, waiting for the kettle to boil and the toaster to pop, suddenly the lights flickered and went out.  “Damn, another power cut” I thought, “not to worry, it’ll come on again in a minute.”  We live at the far end of the energy distribution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Design Now?</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/why-design-now/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/why-design-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Gibson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stoves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sudan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re delighted to hear Mohamed Majzoub, Practical Action&#8217;s Country Director from Sudan, is taking part in Design Triennial, Why Design Now?  with the improved clay stove.
This stove has made a huge impact of the lives of women who daily have to cope with the time-consuming and often dangerous task of collecting firewood. Now, through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Bog blog&#8217; &#8211; one hundred year old toilet&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/one-hundred-year-old-toilet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Eason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today we at Practical Action are talking about quite an unusual anniversary, as today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Thomas Crapper - the man who revolutionised the flushing lavatory.
Yes, we at Practical Action enjoy talking toilets. So the man who invented the ballcock and promoted sanitary plumbing is very exciting to us&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slumdog Secret Millionaire &#8211; raising awareness or missing the point?</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/slumdog-millionaire/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/slumdog-millionaire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansoor Ali</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[causes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slumdog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I saw on Channel 4, Slumdog Secret Millionaire with my 11-year-old son. Earlier, Channel 4 also showed similar programmes, such as slumming and there was also one on the waste work in slum areas. 
While the programme is very well made and brings out some good details, I am not very convinced that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/emergency-market-mapping-and-analysis-in-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/emergency-market-mapping-and-analysis-in-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansoor Ali</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconstruction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to our earlier reports on the need to rebuild after the earthquake, you might like to know about some direct influence that Practical Action is having in Haiti.
Practical Action Publishing is just about to publish our Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis toolkit (EMMA) – which was commissioned by Oxfam, IRC and InterAction – and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding after disasters</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/rebuilding-after-disasters/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/rebuilding-after-disasters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansoor Ali</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiti]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Haiti is considered as one of the poorest countries in the World and I have been talking a lot about slums in Haiti with our friends in Oxfam. 
Practical Action does not work immediately after emergencies. But we have played a significant role in re-building after disasters. Practical Action worked very actively in re-building Sri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charity reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening with my family to the news last night we were each touched by the terrible devastation that has hit Haiti and people’s struggle to survive. 
My daughter asked if we, Practical Action, were working there? I explained not directly, that our focus is on long term development – sometimes ‘saving lives’ &#8211; helping people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Foods</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/newtech/future-foods/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/newtech/future-foods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David J. Grimshaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Technologies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago the Government&#8217;s Chief Scientist, Professor John Beddington, &#8220;Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC),  said the world will have to produce 50 per cent more food by 2030 in order to feed the growing population.   He said the only way to do this is to grow more crops on less land by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/charity-reality/2010/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/charity-reality/2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charity reality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write about new years resolutions but somehow whatever I said read like an extract from a bad sermon.
4th January – end of the holiday and the day New Years resolutions really begin.
Beyond that my &#8216;bullshit radar&#8217; went into overdrive. Being English and talking about changing the world, trying to make a difference, feels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building back better &#8211; tsunami five years on</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/building-back-better-tsunami-five-years-on/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/news/building-back-better-tsunami-five-years-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Eason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We should celebrate what people have achieved in such desperate circumstances, while hoping communities will never have to face such losses ever again. This work still goes on and we regularly hear inspiring stories of how people continue to thrive. Let's hope this festive period brings joy to people in Sri Lanka and the rest of the world. 
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