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	<itunes:summary>Changing the world one site at a time</itunes:summary>
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		<title>It’s the Rich Wot Gets the Pleasure</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/28/it%e2%80%99s-the-rich-wot-gets-the-pleasure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Population is much less of a problem than consumption. No wonder the rich are obsessed by it.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

It must rank among the most remarkable events in recent human history. In just 60 years the global average number of children each woman bears has fallen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from China: Why the Existing Economic Model Will Fail</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/10/12/learning-from-china-why-the-existing-economic-model-will-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute
For almost as long as I can remember we have been saying that the United States, with 5 percent of the world&#8217;s people, consumes a third or more of the earth&#8217;s resources. That was true. It is no longer true. Today China consumes more basic resources than the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables, and Toxic Pollutants Driving People from Their Homes</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/28/expanding-deserts-falling-water-tables-and-toxic-pollutants-driving-people-from-their-homes/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/08/28/expanding-deserts-falling-water-tables-and-toxic-pollutants-driving-people-from-their-homes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute

  Photo &#169; Craig Mackintosh
People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters from Slovakia &#8211; Contemplating the Roma and Other Minorities in a Post-Peak Oil World</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/07/28/letters-from-slovakia-contemplating-the-roma-and-other-minorities-in-a-post-peak-oil-world/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/07/28/letters-from-slovakia-contemplating-the-roma-and-other-minorities-in-a-post-peak-oil-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a world of decreasing energy excess, will ancient hostilities get reignited or defused? What will peak oil and economic collapse mean for our human relationships if we fail to prepare for the stress ahead?

&#8220;It was a dark and misty night&#8230;&#8221; 
So begins many a dramatic work of fiction. I am not going to begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atro-City</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/07/01/atro-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom 

For at least a century, governments have tried to urbanise their nations. Communist states sought to drag people out of what Marx and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why Societies Fail and a Lesson from the Game of Monopoly</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/10/why-societies-fail-and-a-lesson-from-the-game-of-monopoly/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/10/why-societies-fail-and-a-lesson-from-the-game-of-monopoly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GMOs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say if we don&#8217;t study history, we&#8217;re destined to repeat it. Many of you will be familiar with Jared Diamond and his work. Author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Mr. Diamond has put a lot of energy into studying various cultures that have come, and, significantly, gone again. Amongst these [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>National Sustainable Food Summit Talks</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/07/national-sustainable-food-summit-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/06/07/national-sustainable-food-summit-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Melbourne, on April 5th and 6th, was held the National Sustainable Food Summit, where key Australian food and agriculture players and academics met to discuss the challenges and possible solutions for Australia&#8217;s increasingly vulnerable food security situation. Some of the talks were quite interesting. 
The first video is where Julian Cribb (Adjunct Professor of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Education Leads to Lower Fertility and Increased Prosperity</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/16/education-leads-to-lower-fertility-and-increased-prosperity/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/16/education-leads-to-lower-fertility-and-increased-prosperity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 13:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Brigid Fitzgerald Reading, Earth Policy Institute

  Photo &#169; Craig Mackintosh
As the world continues to add close to 80 million people each year, high population growth is running up against the limits of our finite planet, threatening global economic and political stability. To stay within the bounds of the earth&#8217;s natural resources, the world&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/16/education-leads-to-lower-fertility-and-increased-prosperity/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/05/02/time-to-wake-up-days-of-abundant-resources-and-falling-prices-are-over-forever/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The New Geopolitics of Food</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/04/28/the-new-geopolitics-of-food/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/04/28/the-new-geopolitics-of-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Earth Policy Institute</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute
From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars. 
In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the difference between a $2 loaf of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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