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	<title>Permaculture Research InstituteThomas Fischbacher &#187; Permaculture Research Institute</title>
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		<title>When to Not Use Money &#8211; and Why</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/22/when-to-not-use-money-and-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternatives to Political Systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us imagine a fictitious mountain village &#8212; or, for that matter, any other close-knit community &#8212; that has a high degree of economic independence at the community rather than individual level. Within this community, there is an on-going active exchange of favours, including goods and services. Naturally, there will be some sort of accounting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nuclear Race to the Bottom</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/04/29/the-nuclear-race-to-the-bottom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that often is forgotten in discussions about nuclear energy utilization is that it involves quite a lot of very dirty and dangerous work. According to Bill Mollison, Uranium mining companies in Australia often employed Aborigines as miners, knowing that they would not go to court should they develop cancer. The situation in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Climate Belief Forensics II</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/02/17/climate-belief-forensics-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming/Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: This is part II of a series. If you haven&#8217;t already, read Part I first.
 
Considering the Latin root of the word, &#34;forensics&#34; is about bringing something before the forum the public perhaps should know about. And certainly, exploring the question where influential beliefs about the climate come from seems quite relevant.
These days, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Have We Allowed Our Society to Become?</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/02/10/what-have-we-allowed-our-society-to-become/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/02/10/what-have-we-allowed-our-society-to-become/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a translation of a short sample from a comedy show filmed in January 2011 in Munich. The language is unfortunately inaccessible for most readers (more so as this is in a regional dialect, Bavarian), but what this woman, Monika Gruber, has to say in this four-minute piece, matters a lot. Even those to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Masanobu Fukuoka</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/19/masanobu-fukuoka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Plants - Annual]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fairly recent video about the Natural Farming pioneer Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) that was produced by one of his former students, Larry Korn, who also translated Fukuoka&#8217;s best-known book &#34;The One Straw Revolution&#34; into English. One of the reasons why this video is especially interesting is that it contains video material showing Fukuoka [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Organized Barter and Redistribution of Surplus</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/11/organized-barter-and-redistribution-of-surplus/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/11/organized-barter-and-redistribution-of-surplus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Projects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

In chapter 14 of the Permaculture Designers&#8217; Manual, Bill Mollison gives an interesting example of a restaurant (Zoo Zoo&#8217;s) that needed money for renovation but came up with a creative alternative to borrowing it at interest from a bank: they sold dated vouchers at a discount &#8212; e.g. an &#34;a meal worth $10, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Climate Belief Forensics &#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/12/31/climate-belief-forensics-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Considering the Latin root of the word, &#8216;forensics&#8217; is about bringing something before the public that they should perhaps know about. And certainly, exploring the question of where influential beliefs about the climate come from seems quite relevant.
 While massive atmospheric emissions caused by mankind at a sufficiently large scale to change important global [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gaviotas</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/12/21/gaviotas/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/12/21/gaviotas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Projects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a video on the work of Paolo Lugari, founder of &#34;Gaviotas&#34;, a project that managed to build a sustainable community in one of the most environmentally and socially hostile parts of the planet &#8211; the highly acidic and aluminium toxic soils of the Colombian Llanos.
  What made this possible was (a) the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Full Monty Scanner or Enhanced Pat-Down &#8211; the Only Options?</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/26/full-monty-scanner-or-enhanced-pat-down-the-only-options/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/26/full-monty-scanner-or-enhanced-pat-down-the-only-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
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There are a thousand things wrong with flying, considering that it&#8217;s an excellent way to burn precious liquid fuels for something that does not produce lasting economic value, that it puts combustion products into atmospheric layers where they really do not belong, and a score of other things as well. In that way, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Early Retirement Extreme</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/08/early-retirement-extreme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Fischbacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two issues keep on puzzling me about economics. On the one hand, it undoubtedly is an incredibly important subject. At present, my life pretty much depends on being able to buy certain things from a functioning economy and the same holds for just about everybody else. On the other hand, there seem to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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