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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>Nichole Foss to Give Talk at The Channon (Feb 10, 2012)</title>
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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
Nicole M. Foss is co-editor of The Automatic Earth (TAE), where she writes under the name Stoneleigh. [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/02/the-search-for-sustainability-in-the-negev/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Gray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Projects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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>Common Ground, Not Landscape Design: Improving the Uptake of Permaculture Ideas in Schools by Not Trying to Teach Permaculture</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/common-ground-not-landscape-design-improving-the-uptake-of-permaculture-ideas-in-schools-by-not-trying-to-teach-permaculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nelson Lebo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This presentation makes a radical departure from many previous approaches to permaculture education in schools. It does not include gardens or design principles. Instead it considers the main purpose of schools &#8212; students learning &#8212; and the main factor that influences that purpose: the teacher. Most teachers feel overworked and are reluctant to add anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PDC as a Journey</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/a-pdc-as-a-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a PDC turns from a certificate course into a journey of change. 

  

When I first registered for my PDC there was a sense of excitement in what I would potentially learn and the new skills I would gain and be able to apply. As time got closer, the focus then turned to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Divine Injustice</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/divine-injustice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drone warfare can be used to thwart democratic movements, anywhere.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgement, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/31/community-design-template-for-25-500-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dann Zealley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternatives to Political Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bio-regional Organisations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=6951</guid>
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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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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>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/#comments</comments>
		<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>Imaginary Friends</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/30/imaginary-friends/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/30/imaginary-friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy Break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming/Climate Change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=6946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The weather forecasters used by the Daily Mail and other papers don’t appear to exist. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

The talented line-up of weather forecasters at &#8216;Positive Weather Solutions&#8217;
Click for larger view
Earlier this month, I questioned the credentials of the alternative weather forecasters being used by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Permaculture in Damaged Lands: Degradation and Restoration in New Mexico</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/21/permaculture-in-damaged-lands-degradation-and-restoration-in-new-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/21/permaculture-in-damaged-lands-degradation-and-restoration-in-new-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  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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