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		<title>Protection, Rights or Legislation &#8211; Many Strings to Our Legal Bow</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/06/protection-rights-or-legislation-many-strings-to-our-legal-bow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Millington</dc:creator>
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If we can give legal personality to non-living entities such as corporations,
why not also give personality to living things like animals and trees?
by Janet Millington
Changes to the law have been made (or &#8220;discovered&#8221;) to facilitate and support trade(1), colonisation(2), industry(3) and the development of corporation(4). This development has been largely driven by the desire for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of International Law to Create the New World &#8211; An Interview with Polly Higgins</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/18/the-power-of-international-law-to-create-the-new-world-an-interview-with-polly-higgins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maddy Harland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: At time of writing, Polly is on a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand &#8212; check out dates and locations here.
Maddy Harland meets Polly Higgins, a barrister who is campaigning for the United Nations to adopt an additional crime against peace: Ecocide.
by Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture magazine &#8211; inspiration for sustainable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polly Higgins Speaking Tour (Australia, New Zealand): Eradicating Ecocide &#8211; Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of our Planet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

Regular readers will know I&#8217;m keen to see society structured in a way that prioritises people and place over corporations and short-term, profit-centric, economic-growth-focussed idiocy. Whilst  politicians are arguing over debt ceilings, corporate tax exemptions, how much more money to magic up and the impossibility of continuing economic growth whilst feigning action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations on Permaculture Aid and the PRI&#8217;s Project Aid Worker Training Course</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/27/observations-on-permaculture-aid-and-the-pris-project-aid-worker-training-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 17:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Grace</dc:creator>
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  Interns at PRI&#8217;s Zaytuna Farm
There are few things in this life as disturbing as the suffering of another human being. Perhaps one might be the fact that we the privileged have become so desensitised to it, so selfishly removed into our own little worlds of such great importance. Is it not the responsibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/02/time-to-wake-up-days-of-abundant-resources-and-falling-prices-are-over-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Grantham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Preamble: This is a first for me. Who would have thought I&#8217;d be posting a quarterly newsletter written by the  Chief Investment Officer of a large investment firm? &#34;Jeremy Grantham is a British investor and Co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO), a Boston-based asset management firm. GMO is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Us Give You What You Want</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/03/help-us-give-you-what-you-want/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/03/03/help-us-give-you-what-you-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you really understand what the Worldwide Permaculture Network is all about?



        
        The WPN represents many months of work.
      Now is your chance to pitch in a little, and
      directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny House Movement, Small House = Big Life</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/22/tiny-house-movement-small-house-big-life/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/22/tiny-house-movement-small-house-big-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

In the face of growing problems with climate change, and the unpredictable rumblings of the economy and housing challenges of the USA, there seems to be a wonderfully positive and exciting revolution/movement happening in the United States and in other places of the world: the Tiny House movement.

It seems that many more thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</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>
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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>Worldwide Permaculture Network &#8211; Project Type Descriptions</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/04/worldwide-permaculture-network-project-type-descriptions/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/01/04/worldwide-permaculture-network-project-type-descriptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Welcome to the new year everyone.
The first live, public launch of the Worldwide Permaculture Network is imminent. There are just a few things to tidy up, and then you can all &#8216;have at it&#8217;. 
I could use your feedback on the below. Here you&#8217;ll find draft descriptions of the project &#8216;types&#8217; that can be selected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold-Hearted</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/12/28/cold-hearted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The level of excess winter deaths in the UK is higher than Siberia&#8217;s. This is why.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom 

Were you to list the factors that distinguish civilisation from barbarism, this would come close to the top: that the elderly are not left to die of [...]]]></description>
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