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		<title>Federal Funding + Watershed Protection Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Info from Jill Arace, Valley resident and Executive Director of the Vermont Association of Conservation Districts: As you&#8217;ve probably heard, President Obama has made an emergency declaration for the State of Vermont. This declaration releases federal funding to support emergency management personnel and their activities while we&#8217;re still in this emergency phase. At a later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Food System Presentation &#124; 5/10 &#124; Big Picture Theater</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can Vermont build strong local and regional food systems, create jobs in the food and farm economy, and improve access to healthy local food? The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund has laid out an impressive road map for the next 10 years of agricultural development with the release of the Farm to Plate (F2P) Strategic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UVM Student Presentations &#124; Wrap-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen UVM students presented the findings of their semester-long partnership with the Mad River Valley on December 8th at the Big Picture Theater (original post). For the second year in a row, the Mad River Valley has served as the focus of a University of Vermont course within its Community Development &#38; Applied Economics Department. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UVM Students to Present Mad River Valley Projects on December 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of December 8 at the Big Picture, Mad River Valley residents are invited to hear about the experiences and recommendations of UVM students, who have been working on local projects. For the second year in a row, the Mad River Valley has served as the focus of a University of Vermont course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MRV + UVM Partnership &#124; Fall 2010 &#124; 9/16 Kick-Off Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second year in a row the MRV is partnering with UVM in a service learning course in the Community Development Applied Economics Department entitled Local Community Initiatives. The description is as follows: Students will take an active role in local projects addressing a variety of essential community issues in the Mad River Valley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MRV Talk &#124; Andrew Meyer on Hardwick &amp; Agr. Economy &#124; 2/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Valley Futures Network Task Team has been formed to look at the question: would a local entrepreneurial Food and Agriculture Business Initiative work in the Valley and if so what might it look like? The Team is sponsoring some upcoming talks in the next months that bring in people from other towns that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Request for Projects &#124; Local Community Initiatives &#124; Fall 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on the success of this past fall&#8217;s MRV focused UVM course, Local Community Initiatives, instructor Chip Sawyer is planning a second round in the fall of 2010. Now is the time to start planning the course, and more importantly, brainstorming potential projects. The UVM course Local Community Initiatives is a service-learning course that allows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Hunting Season, Mad River!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a good luck at the very first deer to be weighed at the Village Grocery in downtown Waitsfield. A beaut &#8211; shot up near the Moretown Common road. Be safe out there, everyone, and happy hunting!]]></description>
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		<title>Numen: The Magical Nature of Plants (FILM REVIEW)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;NUMEN&#8221; FILM SCREENING!: Montpelier&#8217;s SAVOY at 7:00 on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11. I have sat through many “talking head” documentaries in my years as a film reviewer, but never before have I found so much to laugh, cry and think about as when I screened “Numen: The Nature of Plants&#8221; for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FILM REVIEW: Food, Inc. &#8211; What&#8217;s Cooking in America&#8217;s Kitchen?</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/08/24/film-review-food-inc-whats-cooking-in-americas-kitchen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does what we eat come from? This seems like it ought to be an easy question to answer. Not so, in this day and age, according to a new documentary film called Food, Inc. “The way we eat has changed more in the past 50 years than in the last 10,000 years,” explains the [...]]]></description>
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