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		<title>The Newcastle Fair Share Festival is On Again!</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/08/the-newcastle-fair-share-festival-is-on-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Shiel</dc:creator>
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When: 9 &#8212; 11 March 2012, starting on the evening of March 9
  Where: Hamilton Public School, corner of Tudor Steet and Steel Street, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
  Theme: &#34;Transitioning to connected communities, localised fair economies and sustainable lifestyles.&#34;
 Please put this event in your diaries, and &#8216;like&#8217; us at www.facebook.com/#!/FairShareFestival
In this second and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nichole Foss to Give Talk at The Channon (Feb 10, 2012)</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/07/nichole-foss-to-give-talk-at-the-channon-feb-10-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What: Nichole Foss talk on the present and future crises
  Where: The Channon Community Hall, near Lismore, NSW, Australia (and a stone&#8217;s throw from the PRI&#8217;s Zaytuna Farm)
  When: 10th of February,  starting at 5.30 pm
  Cost?: Donation at door
Nicole M. Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth (TAE), where she [...]]]></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>Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/23/governments-spend-1-4-billion-per-day-to-destabilize-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute
We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion in 2010. Of this, supports on the [...]]]></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>Peak Oil Can Fuel a Change for the Better</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/peak-oil-can-fuel-a-change-for-the-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The advent of peak oil means we should prepare for a downscaling of our highly energy and resource-intensive lifestyles.
What is peak oil and why does it matter? And what effect will it have on the Western lifestyles we take for granted? These are not questions that many people are asking themselves yet, but this decade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Oil, Energy Descent, and the Fate of Consumerism</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/peak-oil-energy-descent-and-the-fate-of-consumerism/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/peak-oil-energy-descent-and-the-fate-of-consumerism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Alexander</dc:creator>
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Western-style consumer lifestyles are highly resource and energy intensive. This paper examines the energy intensity of these consumer lifestyles and considers whether such lifestyles could be sustained in a future with declining energy supplies and much higher energy prices. The rise of consumer societies since the industrial revolution has only been possible due to the [...]]]></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>Greeks Reclaim the Land to Ease the Pain of Economic Austerity</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/greeks-reclaim-the-land-to-ease-the-pain-of-economic-austerity/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/greeks-reclaim-the-land-to-ease-the-pain-of-economic-austerity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beatrice Yannacopoulou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: The recently-formed PRI Hellas (Greece) team are making good progress in difficult times, as evidenced by this nice piece from The Ecologist below. If you want to support this work, whilst having a great learning experience in an incredibly beautiful location, be sure to check out their April 23 &#8211; 29, 2012, Intensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculturists in Sunday Times &#8211; Living Fluidly</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/12/permaculturists-in-sunday-times-living-fluidly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Perkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(IM)PERMANENCE film was noticed by the Sunday Times who featured our family in an article regarding &#34;living fluidly&#34;.
by Richard Perkins

In case you didn&#8217;t catch the article in the Sunday Times last week, our family was featured in an article about living fluidly, how a generation of people are now forging new ways to interact to [...]]]></description>
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