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		<title>UDO Draft Documents Now Available for Review Online</title>
		<link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2014/07/21/udo-draft-documents-now-available-for-review-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Decatur Metro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deanne notes this update to the Decatur Next post regarding the Unified Development Ordinance draft&#8230; DIG IN The following DRAFT FILES, as of July 21, 2014, are now available for your review: Summary of Major Changes A quick-read overview of where significant changes occur in the draft ordinance. (.pdf) Clarification Notes for High-Performance / Green Building [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Growers To Host &#8220;Pick Your Own Bamboo&#8221; Event at Bamboo Creek Farm</title>
		<link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2013/04/11/global-growers-to-host-pick-your-own-bamboo-event-at-bamboo-creek-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Decatur Metro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Growers, which operates Decatur&#8217;s Kitchen Garden, sends out this announcement&#8230; Bordered by several acres of bamboo forest, Global Growers Network’s (GGN) training farm along Snapfinger creek is invaded by young bamboo shoots each Spring.  To protect the health of the farm, GGN will, for the first time, invite the community to help maintain the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Agriculture Policy Best Practices Study Released</title>
		<link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/12/07/urban-agriculture-policy-best-practices-study-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allison]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decatur Zoning Ordinance Revision Task Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasim Reed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Agricultural Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Turner Environmental Law Clinic at Emory and Georgia Organics just released a comprehensive look at urban agriculture policy across the US. The 94-page study surveys the zoning ordinances of sixteen cities, from Nashville to New York and including Atlanta, for the ways in which each municipality has incorporated urban agriculture into its land use [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>City Presents “Original Green” Author</title>
		<link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/11/15/city-presents-%e2%80%9coriginal-green%e2%80%9d-author/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agnes Scott College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preservation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Mouzon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is “green?” Bamboo floors and photovoltaic roof panels? Sleek LEED buildings and EnergyStar appliances? Granola and weed? That’s something the city’s looking to explore tomorrow by hosting Steve Mouzon, author of “The Original Green,” for a free public lecture at Agnes Scott. (Full disclosure: I helped with some of the organizing.) Looking back through [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting My Goats</title>
		<link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/07/18/getting-my-goats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allison]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oakhurst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban goats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My neighbors and partners in all-things-chicken and I got our first five birds back in 2004, shortly after I discovered, quite by accident, that poultry keeping was perfectly legal in Decatur. The laying hens were a gateway drug for me. Before long I was fantasizing about having a couple of small dairy goats. The thing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ag Commissioner Candidates To Debate &#8220;Sustainable Agriculture&#8221; at Emory</title>
		<link>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/31/ag-commissioner-candidates-to-debate-sustainable-agriculture-at-emory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/31/ag-commissioner-candidates-to-debate-sustainable-agriculture-at-emory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Decatur Metro]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emory University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia Agriculture Commissioner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia Organics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wicked.  From the Gainesville Times&#8230; Sustainable agriculture groups have seized on the opportunity of the first open agriculture commissioner seat in more than 40 years. Georgia Organics and Emory University on Thursday will hold what they are calling Georgia’s first sustainable agriculture debate. They say the three men seeking to be Georgia’s second agriculture commissioner [&#8230;]]]></description>
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