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	<description>We&#039;re a Rough Guide to Abundance. We explore from high tech to low tech ways to make your and your communities life better and more abundant. We focus on health, food, transportation, shelter and housing, community, clothing, fuel and alternative energy, ecology and social justice.</description>
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		<title>Democracy It&#8217;s Not the Law, It&#8217;s Just a Good Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[from Democracy Now; some rights reserved.
&#8220;If it is not controversial&#8230;If it is not dangerous, if it does not ask us to consider changes that frighten the establishment, it is not about democracy.&#8221; -Paul Woodruff,  First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea.
I&#8217;m leading a reading group on democracy at the Northern Virginia Ethical Society [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2010/04/democracy-is-the-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Earth Hour-March 27th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earth Hour is March 27th, 8:30 to 9:30 pm. Power down, turn off the lights, save some fuel. I think it&#8217;s useful and fun to practice carbon sequestration. For all our schemes at sequestering carbon, nature does it better. Coal, oil, and tar sands are all examples of the way carbon has naturally been sequestered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2010/03/earth-hour-march-27th/</link>
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		<title>D.C. Environmental Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See Homegrown (see their website at urban homestead) and many, many other environmental films at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival March 16th through March 28th. This family grows 6,000 pounds of food on 1/5 acre.

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		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2010/03/d-c-film-festival/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year-The Utopian Landscape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been blogging for over a year, so happy new year. I like to think of Utopian Economics as a crossroads, of sorts. A place where high tech meets low tech, where people come from different places to produce abundance for their own benefit, their community, or their planet. I hope to encourage a cross [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2010/03/happy-new-year-the-utopian-landscape/</link>
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		<title>Deconstructing Healthcare Opposition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s Deconstruct Healthcare Opposition for a moment-
 &#8220;Americans are happy with their healthcare&#8221;-This a phrase meant to induce amnesia. The goal is that EVERYONE should have healthcare and this ditty is meant to make those who have insurance feel insecure about healthcare change. It dismisses people who don&#8217;t have insurance.
The Government Takeover of Healthcare-
This talking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2010/03/healthcare/</link>
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		<title>Have an Impact, Man. No Impact Man: Movie Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I like this little film. It reminds me of the experiment my wife, Amy, and I started in the 90&#8217;s. We didn&#8217;t know it was an experiment at the time. I was renting a four bedroom house, two car garage in beautiful downtown Tyson&#8217;s Corner in Virginia for $500 (just $125 for each housemate!).
We had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2010/03/have-an-impact-man-no-impact-man-movie-review/</link>
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		<title>Acorn Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year in the Mid-Atlantic region there was a lot of discussion about the lack of acorns. Some oak trees, it seemed from some accounts, produced no acorns at all (this may be the oak trees evolutionary way of keeping the squirrel population at a sustainable level). This year was a different story: there was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2009/10/acorn-culture/</link>
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		<title>Liberty! Who Is Number One?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo by RachelH; some rights reserved.
Okay it is not a study, but to me it captures some sense of truth. A friend of mine was telling me something he heard: &#8220;They say in the U.S. the people are afraid of their government, and in France the government is afraid of its people.&#8221;
So who are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2009/09/who-is-number-one/</link>
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		<title>Suburban Apples: DIY Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo by ClickFlashPhotos; some rights reserved.
If you have my luck, your apple orchard is all suburbia. The first apple tree I came across was on abandoned property. I found two more on the unused lawn of a corporate office next to our apartment building and one more on our apartment building&#8217;s grounds. They were remnants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2009/09/suburban-apples-diy-food/</link>
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		<title>Ayn Rand: A Primer Part 2; Got Evolution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[photo by Jarrod Trainque; some rights reserved.
Ayn Rand had difficulties with (and perhaps did not believe in) evolution. I first realized this when reading some of her more obscure material (The Ayn Rand Letter or perhaps, The Objectivist Newsletter). Rand made reference to an ancient primate find that indicated that primate hands had evolved for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.utopianeconomics.com/2009/09/ayn-rand-a-primer-part-2-got-evolution/</link>
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