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		<title>Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for the Self-organizing Society</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/07/peer-to-peer-themes-and-urban-priorities-for-the-self-organizing-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikos A. Salingaros</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Abstract
This essay presents desirable social functioning as basically a matter of free individual decision. I discuss two basic polarities: Left versus Right, and P2P (Peer-to-Peer) versus Global-mass-society. Each polarity takes certain distinctions and concerns as key to understanding political life. A self-organizing P2P society is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Search for Sustainability in the Negev</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/02/the-search-for-sustainability-in-the-negev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gray</dc:creator>
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The Bedouin of the Negev are an ancient people whose cultural history spans centuries, if not millennia. Historically, the Bedouin have been semi-nomadic pastoralists, who made the desert their own through a combination of dry-land farming of forage crops and cereals, rainwater harvesting and seasonal mobility: rotating their presence between their winter and summer grazing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Design Template for 25-500 Families</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/31/community-design-template-for-25-500-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dann Zealley</dc:creator>
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Introduction

  Back in 2008 I spent 6 weeks in Venezuela. I have a Venezuelan friend who believes as I do that permaculture could and should be a driving force for positive change. We both also believe that the Bolivarian Revolution, championed most famously by the charismatic and controversially colourful personality of Hugo Chavez, despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture and Wall Street &#8212; We Must Tackle the Runaway Fiscal Economy Head On, &#8220;We Must Face Up and Fight&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/30/permaculture-and-wall-street-we-must-tackle-the-runaway-fiscal-economy-head-on-we-must-face-up-and-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admire the efforts of the permaculturists at the Occupy Wall Street camp, and I think, judging by his statement way back in 1983 (see below), that Bill would admire them also.

  


Hunger is rising, absolute hunger is rising, food&#8217;s badly distributed, not distributed at all often. The waste of food, the whole deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Smith</dc:creator>
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  A certain coal-strewn road in Madrid, New Mexico 
 &#8212; the remnants of a now defunct railway.
  Alternately barren and spectacular, the southwest United States has piqued the imagination of Americans and people across the world for generations. The site of gold rushes, Native American homelands, and a culture of lawlessness that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sacrificial Caste</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/18/the-sacrificial-caste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this and other nations, there are groups of children who can be abused with impunity.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.
Texas is a largely-Christian state that appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week the Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children(1). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/16/the-shared-patterns-of-indigenous-culture-permaculture-and-digital-commons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bollier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David Bollier

    Joline Blais
Rarely have I read an essay that knits together some very different commons with such wisdom and depth. Joline Blais&#8217; 2006 essay, &#8220;Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture and Perl,&#8221; is a wonderfully insightful analysis that reveals the underlying unity and logic of commons principles. Her piece appeared in Intelligent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living, Green and Circular</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/living-green-and-circular/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mae-Wan Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Truly Green Economy needs to be modeled after and embedded within the circular economy of nature to generate and regenerate wealth for people and planet.
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Note: A fully illustrated and referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here.

  The linear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to All Our Readers</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/24/thanks-to-all-our-readers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  

I just want to express my gratitude to all our readers and supporters who have contributed in various ways over the last year. What a year it has been! We&#8217;ve seen the launch of the Worldwide Permaculture Network, with your support &#8212; which now enables us to see who is doing what, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kotare Village and Community Development &#8211; Your New Zealand Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/24/kotare-village-and-community-development-your-new-zealand-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Corker</dc:creator>
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To confidently face the many challenges that the future holds for us, we need new models for living lightly on Earth and for building resilience into our communities.
We can&#8217;t expect that we can merely change our intentions and the existing economic, physical and social structures will magically serve our new intentions with &#8216;green&#8217; add-ons.
 Design [...]]]></description>
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