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	<title>Zone5</title>
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	<description>...on the edge between Nature and Culture</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Welcome to the Anthropocene</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/06/28/welcome-to-the-anthropocene/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/06/28/welcome-to-the-anthropocene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Human&#8217;s effect on the planet has now reached geological proportions and as a species we are having a more significant effect on the Earth&#8217;s climate, geology, biodiversity and, hence, even evolution than any other single factor.

We are now officially in the Anthropocene, according to the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London.
This is presumably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing Collapse</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/06/27/reinventing-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/06/27/reinventing-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overshoot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Population]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Powerdown]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yurts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[collapse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[survivalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review


Reinventing Collapse- The Soviet Example and American Prospects

Dmitry Orlov

New Society 2008

When I met Bill Mollison at the International Permaculture Convergence in Croatia three years ago, all he wanted to talk about it seemed was cannibalism. He had traveled in Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union and told me that, in Moscow, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crash Course- Preparing for Peak Oil</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/06/23/crash-course-preparing-for-peak-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/06/23/crash-course-preparing-for-peak-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Building]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Overshoot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Permaculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Powerdown]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[survivalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review

Crash Course- Preparing for Peak Oil

by Zachary Nowak

Green Door Publishing 2008

Peak Oil is upon us, and collective action on a large scale seems unlikely. Technical solutions are chimerical. Each of us must decide what the future may hold and begin working on a plan to face that future.


When Zachary Nowak began drafting this essential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecological Enlightenment</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/06/20/ecological-enlightenment/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/06/20/ecological-enlightenment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science and Rationaltiy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Heinberg has recently written about how our understanding of our place within ecological systems- the ability to see the &#8220;big picture&#8221; of energy flows and resource constraints on human activity- could be seen as a kind of &#8220;enlightenment&#8221;- a new vision of the  world not necessarily obvious or intuitive but closer to reality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability Volume 3 is Out</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/06/20/sustainability-volume-3-is-out/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/06/20/sustainability-volume-3-is-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new issue of Sustainability is out with a focus on food security and also bringing world-class articles and reports on:

-the economic crisis

-global food security

-horse power

-bringing back a canal and rail system to Ireland

-renovating an old cottage

-Irish transition Initiatives

and much more.

Available from your local newsagent/wholefood store or from the Sustainability Institute:

office@sustainabilty.ie
]]></description>
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		<title>Road Trip</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/06/18/road-trip/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/06/18/road-trip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gardens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Permaculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yurts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent trip up country took me first to Westport where I called in on the Sustainability Institute, home of the Irish Sustainability Magazine.



Right: Sustainability editor Andy Wilson hard at work

Andy Wilson&#8217;s creation of the Sustainability Magazine has been a remarkable achievement, bringing a much-needed serious journal into the Irish environmental landscape. Starting up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Famine</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/06/16/energy-famine/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/06/16/energy-famine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Powerdown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Essential reading: 
Rob Hopkins Interviews David Fleming.
David Fleming, creator of Tradeable Energy Quotas (TEQs) and author of &#8220;The Lean Economy&#8221; gives the most enlightening and clear explanation of how nd why oil prices are being driven skywards, what we should be doing about it&#8230; and what is likely to happen if we dont.

&#8220;The human race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charcoal Making at Manch</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/06/08/charcoal-making-at-manch/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/06/08/charcoal-making-at-manch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tools and technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been experimenting with some simple charcoal making in an oil drum. I did a couple of demonstrations a few weeks ago for first a Biodiversity day and second the Slow Food &#8220;Munch at the Manch&#8221; events at the Manch Forestry project, near Dunmanway.





Charcoal will potentially play an important role in the post-oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Scenarios</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/05/26/future-scenarios/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/05/26/future-scenarios/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 11:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Ecology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peak Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Permaculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Powerdown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zone5.org/2008/05/26/future-scenarios/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Adam Grubb (Fenderson), founder of Energy Bulletin for sending me the link to David Holmgren&#8217;s new site Future Scenarios- Mapping the cultural implications of Peak Oil and Climate Change, which is launched today.
You can read the press release here.
The site is an important new resource developing the ideas of permaculture co-founder David Holmgren [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Hopkins on Permaculture and the Kinsale College</title>
		<link>http://zone5.org/2008/05/21/rob-hopkins-on-permaculture-and-the-kinsale-college/</link>
		<comments>http://zone5.org/2008/05/21/rob-hopkins-on-permaculture-and-the-kinsale-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Kinsale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Permaculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transition Towns]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zone5.org/2008/05/21/rob-hopkins-on-permaculture-and-the-kinsale-college/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To mark the end of an era and the retirement of John Thuillier as director of the Kinsale FEC, Zone5 has managed to secure this exclusive and enlightening interview with Rob Hopkins who founded the unique 2-year course in Practical Sustainability 7 years ago.
Thanks also to Rob for sending on some photos from the early [...]]]></description>
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