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		<title>Inspiration. Trepidation.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has happened in the past two months that has both inspired and caused bouts of fist shaking toward the world. But the inspired has by far outshone the dreadful. Dearly loved friends were visiting and visited, new friendships cultivated, a new and unexpected project revealed itself, a thought-provoking semester ended and a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=547&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Ecology &#8211; Arne Næss and George Sessions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first encountered Deep Ecology in my Philosophy of Environment course at the U of A. It confronts me again in my final course for this semester. Some believe Deep Ecology is naïve and misguided. Others contend that it is misanthropic. To me, it is concise (i.e. logical and simple) and normative, hence can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=543&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Health: A &#8220;License to Print Money&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates could have spent his money on art museums or vanity projects. He could have spent his money on cancer research, or on the development of space technology. He chose instead to tackle the diseases of the poor. He chose to go to Africa with much of his money. &#8211; Peoples Health Movement et [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=536&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing Good Intentions with Doing What’s Good ‘On the Ground’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the pleasure of celebrating Kaffebrenneriet’s ninth annual Den Store Kaffedagen (Big Coffee Day). Kaffebrenneriet (or ‘KB’ as its affectionately referred to by those within the company) is a specialty coffee company in Oslo that owns an astounding 21 locations in a city with a population similar to Edmonton’s. Just by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=522&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Development: A Contradiction in Terms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read a lot these past few weeks. And yes, I do love to read but no, I&#8217;m not reading another Murakami novel where I can lose myself in yet another dream world. More and more, I wish I could because let me tell you, reading about the state of &#8220;sustainable development&#8221; is not for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=467&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oslo, you and I, we&#8217;ll be good friends</title>
		<link>http://melanieleeson.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/oslo-you-and-i-well-be-good-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost a week since I left Edmonton and I&#8217;m feeling pretty nicely settled into my new home. The two weeks leading up to my departure were easily the hardest in the history of my leaving Edmonton to go abroad. For the first time, I wasn&#8217;t counting down the days until my flight. Much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=451&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A different perspective on coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has happened since January. Transcend has three fully running cafés, the kitchen at Argyll has started its build-out, one of my friends within Transcend (and one of our best baristas) is moving on from coffee (hopefully temporarily) and I&#8217;m about to start a new aspect of my coffee education. Our Jasper Ave. location [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=428&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I like!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December and January have been particularly gluttonous months for me. I suppose I always go out of my way to eat and drink good things but man, these past six weeks have been particularly indulgent. Maybe you like to eat and drink things as much as I do. If so, maybe we&#8217;re sharing the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=415&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re crazy. I like you but, you&#8217;re crazy, 2011.</title>
		<link>http://melanieleeson.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/youre-crazy-i-like-you-but-youre-crazy-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melanieleeson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Poul (my boss and owner of Transcend Coffee) were a superhero he&#8217;d be the Human Tornado. The man never has a lack of ideas, he&#8217;s constantly looking for new ways to engage in the coffee industry (this weekend he&#8217;s in Seattle judging a coffee brewing competition) and he never allows for things to settle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=410&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://melanieleeson.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/on-the-road-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s naive to expect untamed wilderness at something like a national park but I was still surprised at the sheer number of tourists and super easy accessibility of Yosemite. Our &#8220;take it as it comes&#8221; attitude had worked well for us thus far; we hadn&#8217;t had any problems finding accommodation anywhere but luck almost took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melanieleeson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8408073&amp;post=360&amp;subd=melanieleeson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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