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	<description>environmental news, opinion and photographs from James Woodford</description>
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		<title>Old Yella</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Considering they&#8217;re down to a few dollars a kilogram bananas are surprisingly hard work. I wrote, recently, about how sorely our family&#8217;s patience was being tested as we watched a mammoth bunch of bananas &#8211; literally the size of my five year old daughter &#8211; refuse to ripen on one of the palms we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Fest, Townsville 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Townsville is a place that has really surprised me. Firstly, the weather this winter has been astonishing &#8211; like an endless southern autumn, with day after day in the mid-20s and then night after night buried in doonas. If winter was like this every year and there was no such thing as cyclones in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Banana Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to gardening I am the fantastical dreamer and Prue the magical realist. She promises (and delivers) on turning our 700 square metre block in Townsville into a market garden while I try and convince her we should go for an exotic, impractical tropical orchard. When it comes to our yard I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Only All Politicians Were Scuba Divers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 10:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyclone Yasi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great barrier reef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lodestone Reef]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1983 Lodestone Reef, east of Magnetic Island, was the scene of a series of gruesome attacks by a five-metre tiger shark. It was also in the path of Cyclone Yasi and so I was curious to finally get there on the weekend and see how the Reef looks four months after one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Footpath Fodder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 03:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[street gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainabilitty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Townsville]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our street in Townsville is so wide that the people on the other side look like they inhabit a whole other universe. The road often looks more like a vast asphalt car park than a thoroughfare. When we first moved there Prue and I formally applied to council to plant out part of the nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The J Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 23:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ava]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jeremiah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually like to blog about personal, family things but this one is an exception. In March last year my sister&#8217;s eight-year-old son, Jeremiah Del Tufo, died from brain and spinal cord cancer. It was the most traumatic experience that our family has gone through and for Jeremiah&#8217;s parents, Nicole and Dave, and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Happened to Myrmidon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[great barrier reef]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Cyclone Yasi I joined an expedition with scientists out to Myrmidon Reef, 120 kilometres off Townsville. This week I was asked to talk to Radio National&#8217;s Robyn Williams -  Science Show &#8211; Cyclone Yasi &#8211; about the reef. Before the interview I called the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and asked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Eat Bike Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Townsville]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.realdirt.com.au/?p=412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[South Townsville. It’s about 8pm after a Saturday night spent with friends on a Queenslander house’s deck and I am cycling home. The rest of my family is driving. The reason? We have a ute with only three seats and, because there are four of us, either my wife, Prue, or I has to ride.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyclones Also Fell Rainforests of the Ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[great barrier reef]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.realdirt.com.au/?p=407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I filed this story for The Guardian in London and this one for the Sydney Morning Herald: Tropical Cyclone Yasi not only felled vast numbers of trees in some of the Australia’s most spectacular and precious rainforest. The storm’s reach was felt not only on land but also underwater. Yasi will almost certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyclone Yasi: The Clean-up Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cyclone Yasi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is still no power here in many parts of Townsville and the streets remain strewn with trees and powerlines. I filed this story to the Guardian in London late last night: All everyone wanted was to get to the morning after the cyclone before. The citizens of Townsville had been told that category five [...]]]></description>
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