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		<title>De-Centralization, Re-Localization, and Re-Regionalization as the Cure for Overproduction, Oversupply, and Overmechanization</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to solve the current economic crisis we need to put many unemployed and/or underemployed people back to work rebuilding small/medium-sized towns, farms, villages, and hamlets.  There are hundreds if not thousands of small to medium-sized towns across the USA with declining populations that could be revitalized with an influx of people in to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=305&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8212; &#8220;Pied Beauty&#8221; by G. M. Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches&#8217; wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trades, their gear and tackle and trim.     All things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=274&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retrofitting and Greening American Suburbs Must Be Top Priority in Coming Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is increasingly obvious that American suburbs &#8211; as well as the suburbs of other nations &#8211; are environmentally and socially unsustainable on many levels.  As such, an immediate mass-retrofitting and greening of American suburbs must begin in the coming years due to the increasingly unsustainable American transportation system, food production system, and so on; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=289&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ecovillages, Ecotowns, and Ecosuburbs for the Underclass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As referenced in a recent post, the USA and other nations must begin to build ecovillages, ecotowns, and ecosuburbs for a substantial portion of its population due to the growing instability and over-reach of petroleum-based living systems.  This is especially important for the growing underclass in the USA and elsewhere, not just the middle classes.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=266&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to Planet Earth &#8212; Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Lester Brown, an important movie: Journey to Planet Earth &#8212; Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization &#8211;  http://video.pbs.org/video/1864227276 Filed under: Agriculture and agrarianism, Carrying-capacity, Climate issues, Dirty energy, Ecopolitical/ecosocial movements, Energy issues, Enviroeconomics and ecopolitical issues, Environmental conservation and protection (conservationism/environmentalism), Food issues, Futurology/prediction, Green-economics and green-collar jobs, Greenthought/ecosustainability, Industrial food system (factory-farming, monocropping, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=254&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video Report of Early Agriburban Community &#8216;The Farmstead&#8217; Being Built in Granite Quarry, NC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need to begin building communities such as these all over the USA in appropriate areas ASAP: http://www.myfox8.com/videobeta/ab826a4c-4558-47dd-a27d-0a958e9ce035/News/Buckley-Report-The-Farmstead An article in the Salisbury Post about the agriburban community being planned in the area: &#8220;Agriburbia©: Combining rural living with urban culture&#8220; A similar community is currently being planned in another part of NC: Mountmor Farm Filed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=244&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Article on Soil Erosion in the Midwest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An informative article about the importance of controlling soil erosion in the Midwest &#8211;&#8221;High Prices Sow Seeds of Erosion&#8220; Filed under: Agriculture and agrarianism, Environmental conservation and protection (conservationism/environmentalism), Food issues, Green-economics and green-collar jobs, Industrial food system (factory-farming, monocropping, etc), Land use and land development, Overuse and overdependence on technology (overtechnologization and overmechanization), Soil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=240&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Cities Need To Be Cleaned Up and Modernized</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/american-cities-need-to-be-cleaned-up-and-modernized/</link>
		<comments>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/american-cities-need-to-be-cleaned-up-and-modernized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many respects America is falling behind certain European nations and increasingly various Asian countries when it comes to the physical condition of its cities.  In order to continue being economically and socially competitive the USA must embark upon a major social, political, and economic campaign to clean up and modernize its cities, to bring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=226&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Map of American Forestland Over the Centuries</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/map-of-american-forestland-over-the-centuries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environmental conservation and protection (conservationism/environmentalism)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thsp.wordpress.com/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Environmental conservation and protection (conservationism/environmentalism), Forests and woodlands, Land use and land development, Rural neglect<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=223&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Production of 2 Seater &#8216;Smart Cars&#8217; Needed Now</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/mass-production-of-2-seater-smart-cars-needed-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A temporary fix to buy time with the precarious gasoline-fueled auto system in the USA and elsewhere: all &#8211; and I mean ALL &#8211; of the auto companies in the world need to immediately start mass-producing 2-seater cars (sometimes called &#8216;smart cars&#8217;) because they are much more fuel efficient than other types of autos. People [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=217&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pure absurdity &#8212; some American &#8216;green-collar jobs&#8217; already being outsourced to Asia</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/pure-absurdity-some-american-green-collar-jobs-already-being-outsourced-to-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the blog &#8216;Religion News&#8217;: + &#8220;Little more than a year after cutting the ribbon at a new factory in Devens built with more than $58 million in state aid, Evergreen Solar said yesterday that it will shift its assembly of solar panels from there to China&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/11/05/evergreen_shifts_work_to_china/ + &#8220;Two recent announcements from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=213&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J. M. Greer on Relocalization</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/j-m-greer-on-relocalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Carrying-capacity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great article: read &#8220;How Relocalization Worked&#8220; Posted in Carrying-capacity, Centralization vs. decentralization, Ecolocalism, Futurology/prediction, Green-economics and green-collar jobs, Greenthought/ecosustainability, Land use and land development, Local food/slow food movement, Localism vs. globalism, Overpopulation and overdevelopment, Population crash, Post-industrial planning, Rootedness vs. rootlessness (economic nomadism), Simple living/slower living, Sustainability vs. unsustainability<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=211&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Agriburbia&#8217; is in the news again</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/agriburbia-is-in-the-news-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent news-story from The Denver Post entitled &#8220;&#8216;Agriburbia&#8217; sprouts on Colorado&#8217;s Front Range: Combines Homes and Harvests.&#8221; Posted in Agriculture and agrarianism, Agriurbanism and agriburbia, Carrying-capacity, Centralization vs. decentralization, Food issues, Green-economics and green-collar jobs, Greenthought/ecosustainability, Industrial food system (factory-farming, monocropping, etc), Land use and land development, Local food/slow food movement, Localism vs. globalism, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=209&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Massive Reforestation Plan Needed in the USA (and elsewhere)</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/massive-reforestation-plan-needed-in-the-usa-and-elsewhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the current American government, the Obama Administration, is serious about increasing the number of people with &#8216;green-collar&#8217; jobs, they ought to start by initiating a massive reforestation/afforestation plan which is organized on a local/county basis.  More Americans also ought to be trained in forestry and related environmental fields instead of ones which are mostly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=194&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LINKFEST</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/linkfest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a bunch of random links (some new, others old), many of which have been sitting in my email inbox for a quite a while.  I might revisit some of the news stories and/or info contained within these links sometime later on this blog. + An excellent collection of e-books related to agriculture, environmental history, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=184&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to the book I&#8217;LL TAKE MY STAND: THE SOUTH AND THE AGRARIAN TRADITION</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/introduction-to-the-book-ill-take-my-stand-the-south-and-the-agrarian-tradition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a post mostly for my own future reference as well as for anyone else who might be interested in great writing and important ideas written by a group of erudite, traditional-minded Americans.  The following is the entire introduction to the book I&#8217;ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=174&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CONSTRUCTIVE DESTRUCTION</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/constructive-destruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All over the USA and in many other post-industrial nations there is environmental blight and ecological devastation found nearly everywhere, especially in many cities and suburbs. Thus I propose that we engage in a long-term phase of &#8216;constructive destruction&#8216; wherein we tear down very many of the old, useless, and decrepit buildings, shuttered factories, decaying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=165&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE DIRE NEED FOR &#8216;GREEN-COLLAR JOBS&#8217; in the Post-Industrial USA</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/the-need-for-green-collar-jobs-in-the-post-industrial-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best hope for the future of job growth in the modern post-industrial USA are so-called &#8216;green-collar jobs.&#8217; The fact is that all economically prosperous nations suffer from a major and unavoidable overproduction and oversupply of goods and services as we in the USA are now experiencing &#8212; this is a natural outcome in all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=158&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LOCAL AGRICULTURE &amp; SUSTAINABLE LIVING: In The News</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/local-agriculture-sustainable-living-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed a few of recent stories about locally/regionally-based agriculture and sustainable/green living in the news recently in my area, which was very good to see and hear. + Up around the small North Carolina town of Granite Quarry located in Rowan County, the &#8216;neo-agrarian&#8217; concept of &#8216;Agriburbia&#8216; is taking root in a planned community/village [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=137&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FUTURE SCENARIOS: A Few Recent Links</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/future-scenarios-a-few-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few recent links about the possible future course of humankind on Earth if we do not begin to change our unsustainable ways: + &#8220;Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?&#8221; by Lester Brown (in Scientific American &#8211; May 2009) &#8211; this article posits that the increasing fragility of the world&#8217;s food supply could lead to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=134&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LOCALISM</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/localism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is something that I wrote nearly two years ago, back in August 2007; as the title of this post suggests, it promotes &#8216;localism,&#8217; the belief that many people should return to more locally-focused ways of life in order to build stronger, better connected, and more sustainable local communities. Here it is: Live locally: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=128&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FINISHED Posting the Essay &#8211; Moving On&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/finished-posting-the-essay-moving-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted the entire essay (albeit broken up in to many separate posts) from a college class that I just completed. While that essay forms the nucleus or basis of this website, I will now begin to post on various topics related to the environment (problems and some possible solutions), sustainability, ecology/environmental science, social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=125&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IV. UTOPIAN VISIONS: HUMANITY’S INNATE WILLPOWER, IDEALISM, AND INTELLIGENCE WILL HOPEFULLY PERSEVERE IN THE FUTURE</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/iv-utopian-visions-humanity%e2%80%99s-innate-willpower-idealism-and-intelligence-will-hopefully-persevere-in-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While a rather bleak picture of a decaying humanity barely clinging to a near-permanently wrecked Earth has been described in many of the preceding pages, it certainly doesn’t have to turn out that way. We still yet have some time in which to begin on a better and more stable/sustainable course. We are going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=122&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>III.  THE DIRE CONSEQUENCES FOR HUMANITY AND THE EARTH IF WE DO NOT BEGIN TO CHANGE COURSE</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/iii-the-dire-consequences-for-humanity-and-the-earth-if-we-do-not-begin-to-change-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we do not begin to change course within the coming decades and start taking better care of our Earth, we might face problems which may eventually become insurmountable and or even fatal to our species. Some areas or regions could be forced to confront a full or partial environmental/ecological collapse, which may trigger even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=120&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>II.  OBSTACLES LIKELY TO BE ENCOUNTERED ALONG THE WAY TO A BETTER WORLD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many obstacles, hurdles, and setbacks will confront humankind in our quest to build a better world. Foremost among these is going to be social, political, and economic disorganization, which is obviously no surprise considering it was/is rampant disorganization that has likely contributed the most to the modern socio-environmental crisis. We are going to have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=117&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I.  WORKING TOWARD A MORE SUSTAINBLE AND STABLE FUTURE</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/i-working-toward-a-more-sustainble-and-stable-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human intelligence and ingenuity is a blessing as well as a curse. The intelligence, creativity, and willpower of our species has brought us this far, and because we’ve come so far there is clearly no turning back now. A better, safer, cleaner, more stable, as well as more sustainable world is not only possible, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=112&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>+ PART 3 &#8211; “Desired Outcome(s): Imagining, Planning, and Working Toward a Better Future”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I.    Working Toward a More Sustainable and Stable Future a.  Must start NOW or else we’ll likely enter in to a very unstable period of civilizational decline II.   Obstacles Likely to be Encountered Along the Way To a Better World a.  Social/political/economic disorganization b.  Over-competitiveness, non-cooperation, and ongoing belligerence between various groups, regions, or nations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=93&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>V. CONTROLLING POPULATION GROWTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the discussion of overpopulation is taboo in many quarters, understanding the pivotal role that population and demographics plays in relation to the advancement (or contraction) of human civilization is essential.  To be frank, it is clear that many parts of the world are overpopulated to a frightening extent and as such we must begin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=91&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IV. IMPLEMENTING MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT/CONSERVATION PROGRAMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the dire need to de-centralize and re-localize many aspects of modern human life, we must work together on a macro-level in order to implement national (or even global) programs and form organizations that would work assiduously to conserve, preserve, clean-up, and reverse the environmental damage that we have already inflicted upon our Earth.  We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=89&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>III:2.  RE-LOCALIZATION, RE-REGIONALIZATION, DE-CENTRALIZATION, AND POSSIBLY EVEN PARTIAL DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION/DE-URBANIZATION</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/iii-2-re-localization-re-regionalization-de-centralization-and-possibly-even-partial-de-industrializationde-urbanization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The &#039;New Urbanism&#039; movement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best way to move toward more sustainable modes of living would be to utilize our advanced organizational skills to begin constructing environmentally-friendly ‘ecovillages,’ ‘ecotowns,’ and ‘ecocities.’  Actually, we wouldn’t have to construct much of anything because much of the needed infrastructure is already in place for such development – more retrofitting and intelligent planning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=83&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>III:1.  RE-LOCALIZATION, RE-REGIONALIZATION, DE-CENTRALIZATION, AND POSSIBLY EVEN PARTIAL DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION/DE-URBANIZATION</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/iii-re-localization-re-regionalization-de-centralization-and-possibly-even-partial-de-industrializationde-urbanization-section-1-of-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability vs. unsustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The contemporary superabundance vs. the myth of scarcity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As stated in the previous section, we are going to need to re-localize, re-regionalize, and de-centralize in order for people to get more effectively organized.  It’s much easier to organize a few hundred or a few thousand people and implement various agreed-upon changes among them than to try to make sweeping centralized changes across the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=80&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>II.  GETTING MORE SOCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY, AND POLITICALLY ORGANIZED</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to begin to implement the changes needed for a better and more sustainable world, all societies, cultures, and countries are going to need to get more socially, economically, and politically organized.  The internet offers amazing new possibilities and an array of opportunities for getting more organized on both a micro as well as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=78&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I.  YEARNING FOR SOLUTIONS: EITHER CHANGE OR DECLINE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order for humanity to begin on a more sustainable path, there are many changes that are going to have to be made to our way of life.  In fact, we must begin to make these changes or else we risk further damaging the Earth’s environment and entering in to an unstable period of human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=76&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>+ PART 2 &#8211; “Some Possible Solutions to the Human and Environmental Crisis: Envisioning a Cleaner, More Stable, More Sustainable, and Overall Better World”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Resource depletion/exhaustion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rootedness vs. rootlessness (economic nomadism)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I. Yearning for Solutions: Either Change or Decline II.  Getting More Socially, Economically, and Politically Organized a.  The internet (plus other modern forms of communication) offers amazing new possibilities for social organization and community coordination b.  Re-activating and re-connecting local/regional communities – better city/county/state planning; much more community involvement III.  Re-Localization, Re-Regionalization, De-Centralization, and Possibly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=73&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>X.  HOW LONG DOES HUMANITY HAVE TO START ON A MORE SUSTAINABLE PATH?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it not at all possible to accurately predict (or even roughly formulate) an exact timeline and/or likely scenario as to when all of the socio-environmental problems facing us will become too much for humanity to bear and thus threaten the continued existence of our species here on Earth.  Attempting to merely synthesize or systematize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=68&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IX.  TRANSPORTATION: MOVING PEOPLE AND STUFF AROUND</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dealing with the ever more flimsy food-supply chain(s) as well as the problem of energy availability and usage, the overall transportation system of the present era is increasingly obsolete, chaotic, primitive, and inadequate.  The current (and still growing) world population, as well as the compounding levels of complexity and sophistication which it takes to run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=66&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VIII.  ENERGY: IT’S WHAT MAKES THE MODERN WORLD WORK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to energy, humanity has in many respects painted itself in to a precariously tight corner.  Humankind has become dangerously over-reliant on modern forms of dirty energy (such as oil, coal, natural gas, and so forth) in order to merely move around both ourselves as well as the goods and services we rely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=64&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VII.  LIVING PATTERNS: THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE…DRASTICALLY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The living patterns of many ‘advanced’ nations are going to have to undergo a major shift sometime in the near-future.  The lifestyle of far too many people in the current age is entirely unreasonable, unhinged, foolish, hedonistic, shallow, and unsustainable. We clearly consume far too many resources and as a result produce far too much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=60&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VI.  AIR: WE ALL BREATHE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the resulting population explosion, the Earth’s air has slowly become more dirty, toxic, noxious, and injurious to the health of many living things on Earth. Uncountable numbers of automobiles and a huge number of factories as well as energy plants worldwide have been belching and spewing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=58&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>V.  FOOD: EVERYONE HAS TO EAT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As discussed in the previous section, the soil responsible for feeding much of the world is already severely damaged and facing even more severe problems in the coming decades.  In a related sense, the world food supply is all the time growing more unstable, unhinged, and unable to keep up with the growing demand.  Too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=56&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IV.  SOIL: THE FOUNDATION OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern human civilizations only exist because of the advent of agriculture during the Neolithic Era.  The soil under our feet is literally the foundation of humankind as we now know it.  For most of history humans were small enough in number that they didn’t affect or alter the Earth’s surface all that drastically for either [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=53&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>III.  WATER: THE BASIS OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water is of course the most precious and vital resource on our entire planet.  It is the basis of not only human and animal life but all other forms of life found on Earth as well.  Nevertheless, this most crucial of resources is being overused, polluted, mistreated, and mismanaged by nearly every country on Earth. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=51&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>II.  POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The population levels of many countries around the world have long since crossed the threshold of long-term sustainability.  The overall world population has (according to an averaging of various population figures) approximately tripled in just the last 100 years alone; the population has increased from about two (2) billion in the early 20th Century to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=42&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I.  THE CURRENT HUMAN AND ENVIROMENTAL CRISIS: A CALL TO ACTION AND OVERVIEW OF MAJOR PROBLEMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt among astute observers of the current human situation, especially those of a realistic, rationalistic, and forward-looking mindset, that humanity is spiraling out of control on many levels simultaneously, especially in terms of our critical inter-relationship with the environment here on Earth.  This is not limited to just one country or even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=40&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>+ PART 1 &#8211; “Sounding the Alarm: Confronting, Examining, and Explaining the Worldwide Human and Environmental Crisis”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I. The Current Human and Environmental Crisis: A Call to Action and Overview of Major Problems II. Population and Demographic Issues a. Overpopulation and the resultant overstraining of vital resources III. Water: The Basis of All Life on Earth a. Increasing freshwater depletion/pollution b. Massive wasting of valuable freshwater c. Ocean pollution and overfishing IV. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thsp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5462654&amp;post=32&amp;subd=thsp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Sustainability Plan (THSP)</title>
		<link>http://thsp.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/the-human-sustainability-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SustainHumanity</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture and agrarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriurbanism and agriburbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Zones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrying-capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centralization vs. decentralization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodification of everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dirty energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecodemocracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecodensity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecofascism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecofuturism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Econationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecopolitical/ecosocial movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecoprimitivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecosocialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enviroeconomics and ecopolitical issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental conservation and protection (conservationism/environmentalism)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foraging and gathering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forests and woodlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futurology/prediction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green-economics and green-collar jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenthought/ecosustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial food system (factory-farming, monocropping, etc)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrialism and post-industrialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land use and land development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local food/slow food movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Localism vs. globalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass-materialism and mass-consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature Deficit Disorder [NDD] (disconnection from nature)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Over-and-under issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overpopulation and overdevelopment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overproduction and oversupply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overuse and overdependence on technology (overtechnologization and overmechanization)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradox of thrift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peak oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population and demographic issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Population crash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-industrial planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ranching and animal husbandry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resource depletion/exhaustion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rootedness vs. rootlessness (economic nomadism)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural depopulation/underpopulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural ennui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural neglect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruralism/suburbanism/urbanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simple living/slower living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soil issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability vs. unsustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technological tyranny/industrial authoritarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The &#039;New Urbanism&#039; movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The contemporary superabundance vs. the myth of scarcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Underpopulation and underdevelopment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Underproduction and undersupply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment and underemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban overpopulation/overcrowding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban/suburban alienation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban/suburban decay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban/suburban dependency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban/suburban issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth disparity]]></category>

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