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	<description>The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.</description>
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		<title>By: Natali Sanabria</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-13663</link>
		<dc:creator>Natali Sanabria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excelent Annie, match with you from Venezuela and I&#039;ll share this solution with my working and familiar environment ...</description>
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		<title>By: Neal Gorenflo</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-13053</link>
		<dc:creator>Neal Gorenflo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Janelle, coauthor of The Sharing Solution just wrote a nice piece on Shareable entitled &quot;The Four Degrees of Sharing&quot; here:

http://shareable.net/blog/four-degrees-of-sharing

It does a nice job of laying out the challenges and opportunities that sharing offer.  And I just want to respond to some of the political rhetoric here - if people voluntarily share, if that&#039;s their free choice, then it seems very much aligned with a free and democratic society.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Janelle, coauthor of The Sharing Solution just wrote a nice piece on Shareable entitled &#8220;The Four Degrees of Sharing&#8221; here:</p>
<p><a href="http://shareable.net/blog/four-degrees-of-sharing" rel="nofollow">http://shareable.net/blog/four-degrees-of-sharing</a></p>
<p>It does a nice job of laying out the challenges and opportunities that sharing offer.  And I just want to respond to some of the political rhetoric here &#8211; if people voluntarily share, if that&#8217;s their free choice, then it seems very much aligned with a free and democratic society.</p>
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		<title>By: Randel Howie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randel Howie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey why don&#039;t we all just share our money .Our president would be so proud,so would Karl Marx,Hugo Chavez and every other crazy tin pot dictator in the world.Communism has been a complete failure every time it&#039;s been tried.Our system has problems,they all do,but this crap!This is indoctrination,plain and simple.My children need to learn how to read,write,math at school not be filled with this.Folks it&#039;s &quot;We the People&quot; not &quot;We the Community!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey why don&#8217;t we all just share our money .Our president would be so proud,so would Karl Marx,Hugo Chavez and every other crazy tin pot dictator in the world.Communism has been a complete failure every time it&#8217;s been tried.Our system has problems,they all do,but this crap!This is indoctrination,plain and simple.My children need to learn how to read,write,math at school not be filled with this.Folks it&#8217;s &#8220;We the People&#8221; not &#8220;We the Community!</p>
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		<title>By: Lotus</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-12769</link>
		<dc:creator>Lotus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love many of the things said here in support of our environment and I learn so much too. Thanks for sharing all these positive thoughts, it makes me so happy. I am excited to learn about co-operative housing. Thanks for sharing it Tree sap.:) 

It sounds so good to live in a community esp. one which share the same passion for a greener earth.

I do know sharing things will inevitably brings out problem esp. if others are not responsible and honest. But I believe there is a way to work around that.

I have always wanted to organise car pooling or grouping kids to walk to school. It not only help the environment but also cut down school traffic, time, etc but find that parents are either too busy to reply to my request or couldn&#039;t be bother. People seems to be getting so busy in their life and spend so little time on thinking about ways we could get together and help each other and our planet - it&#039;s sad.

However, reading all these gives me hope and inspiration to try again. Thanks again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love many of the things said here in support of our environment and I learn so much too. Thanks for sharing all these positive thoughts, it makes me so happy. I am excited to learn about co-operative housing. Thanks for sharing it Tree sap.:) </p>
<p>It sounds so good to live in a community esp. one which share the same passion for a greener earth.</p>
<p>I do know sharing things will inevitably brings out problem esp. if others are not responsible and honest. But I believe there is a way to work around that.</p>
<p>I have always wanted to organise car pooling or grouping kids to walk to school. It not only help the environment but also cut down school traffic, time, etc but find that parents are either too busy to reply to my request or couldn&#8217;t be bother. People seems to be getting so busy in their life and spend so little time on thinking about ways we could get together and help each other and our planet &#8211; it&#8217;s sad.</p>
<p>However, reading all these gives me hope and inspiration to try again. Thanks again.</p>
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		<title>By: Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-12704</link>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow! Do you realize you are advocating the teachings of Karl Marx? &quot;From each according to his ability. To each according to his need&quot; is not an original concept. It has actually been tested throughout history and has failed wherever is has been tried. Please do not subject our country&#039;s children to the lessons of a failed economic policy in the name of sustainability. It all sounds good, but it just plain doesn&#039;t work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow! Do you realize you are advocating the teachings of Karl Marx? &#8220;From each according to his ability. To each according to his need&#8221; is not an original concept. It has actually been tested throughout history and has failed wherever is has been tried. Please do not subject our country&#8217;s children to the lessons of a failed economic policy in the name of sustainability. It all sounds good, but it just plain doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
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		<title>By: Patty Marotte</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-12600</link>
		<dc:creator>Patty Marotte</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This wonderful! We are a bunch of Americans living in Kuwait. I have seen this oil-rich country turn into like America&#039;s consumption patterns...they have so much money! Our group shares books, clothes, and even funiture so we can do our bit! The government here DOES NOT even have a recycling system... they just go bury it in the desert and then 20 years from now they will build houses on it! In Kuwait if your car isnt the new Mercedes that was released than u turn ur old one in...a car! When i was growing up you kept your car until it doesn&#039;t work no more! The car makers know this...BMW does a new look evey 5 years and Mercedes 7 years..something so silly such as the shape of the headlights...it is not necessarily better technology...but a visible change just like ur reference to skinny/fat shoes...It is all amazing! thank you for open my eyes...Patty</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This wonderful! We are a bunch of Americans living in Kuwait. I have seen this oil-rich country turn into like America&#8217;s consumption patterns&#8230;they have so much money! Our group shares books, clothes, and even funiture so we can do our bit! The government here DOES NOT even have a recycling system&#8230; they just go bury it in the desert and then 20 years from now they will build houses on it! In Kuwait if your car isnt the new Mercedes that was released than u turn ur old one in&#8230;a car! When i was growing up you kept your car until it doesn&#8217;t work no more! The car makers know this&#8230;BMW does a new look evey 5 years and Mercedes 7 years..something so silly such as the shape of the headlights&#8230;it is not necessarily better technology&#8230;but a visible change just like ur reference to skinny/fat shoes&#8230;It is all amazing! thank you for open my eyes&#8230;Patty</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-12583</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s an idea for sharing.  Why not stop all gov&#039;t spending on replacement needle programs.  That will get all the Junkies sharing again.  Once they succumb to HIV and HEP C the market for poppies will dry up and there won&#039;t be so much money going to Afghanistan to fund the insurgents.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s an idea for sharing.  Why not stop all gov&#8217;t spending on replacement needle programs.  That will get all the Junkies sharing again.  Once they succumb to HIV and HEP C the market for poppies will dry up and there won&#8217;t be so much money going to Afghanistan to fund the insurgents.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-12582</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Get rid of all the frivolous lawsuits and the dispicable ambulance chasing attorney&#039;s that make everyone paranoid to lend things to neighbors, like autos or ladders and maybe we could get somewhere on this topic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get rid of all the frivolous lawsuits and the dispicable ambulance chasing attorney&#8217;s that make everyone paranoid to lend things to neighbors, like autos or ladders and maybe we could get somewhere on this topic.</p>
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		<title>By: Jean Tucker</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-12511</link>
		<dc:creator>Jean Tucker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is blatant propaganda!  You should be ashamed feeding this pap to our children!  Get your facts straight and stop with this socialistic, communist crap.  Just go to Europe and see how oppressed they are (I lived there for years and moved to the US to have freedom of choice). Next, you will be telling us to &quot;share&quot; our homes that we have worked so hard for. TRY HONEST DISCOURSE FOR ONCE!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is blatant propaganda!  You should be ashamed feeding this pap to our children!  Get your facts straight and stop with this socialistic, communist crap.  Just go to Europe and see how oppressed they are (I lived there for years and moved to the US to have freedom of choice). Next, you will be telling us to &#8220;share&#8221; our homes that we have worked so hard for. TRY HONEST DISCOURSE FOR ONCE!</p>
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		<title>By: AikoNeco</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=27&#038;cpage=1#comment-12493</link>
		<dc:creator>AikoNeco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I need to tell you what I feel, what I think, what I FEAR for our own future, for the future of our little ones. It´s not enough to change “some” things in this “necrotic” system… We have to change most EVERYTHING if we wish a better future for our own children… please…!!! In the U.S.A. as in Canada, Europe, Japan, China and all the developed countries, the present culture of ilimited consuming habits has to be radically changed to the opposite culture of total AUSTERITY.

I think it’s time for all humankind to be conscious about reality. It’s not possible to go on with this irrational level of industrialization. 

Humankind MUST STOP making so many frivolous and unnecessary luxurious products, all dispensable in this necrotic system of ilimited consumption. Our very toxic and contaminating garbage is growing in exponential degree, as well as human population does. Neverending contamination…!!! 

Natural resources will soon be exhausted, so the logical reaction SHOULD BE to walk back the same way that brought us all up to this irrational point of neverending consumption. 

DECREASE IS one of the two alternatives we have, but the ONLY LOGICAL ALTERNATIVE that IS LEFT in this PATHETIC REALITY that INVOLVES US ALL. The another one is to go on in the same very dramatically wrong way we are since ever.

Industrialization has to DIMINISH to the minimun necessary and vital level. 

It’s needed a radical change in all steps of Education to provide the technical, mechanical, manual knowledge to go back to our grandparents’ times or to the style of the Amish people, in order to prepare our children to be able to get their own daily sustenance from mother earth, taking care of it naturally and without agrotoxical and chemical industrialized products. Familiar or community farms, with agricultural cooperatives in small communities should be encouraged to be done elsewhere for the self-sufficiency of goods and supplies. Recycling, restoration, recovering, reparing activities with manual and handicraft labours should be the alternative jobs in the near future for our children, activities of minimum fossil fuels requiry. 

Please, do all what is possible for you to encourage the whole World to STOP PRODUCING cars, electronical supplies incompatible with new ones that forces people all around the world to buy new elements instead, luxurious materials, most everything no biodegradable and with very toxic components, etc.etc.etc. Industrialization should be diminished to its minimun necessary level!!!!! 

Instead, it has to be produced all types of spare parts to recycle, restore, repare, recover all types of things that we have; all types of manual and mechanical elements must be produced for all types of jobs and labours of minimum fossil fuels requiry.  

WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT ARE STILL LEFT… 

NO other alternative energy will be able to sustaine this irrational level of neverending consumption. It’s not enough to go on studying other alternative energies in this irrational and neverending necrotic system of insatiable industrialization. 

We are all destroying our unique Planet, we are destroying LIFE elsewhere, contaminating water, air, soil, and intoxicating PEOPLE with MINING and AGRIBUSINESS activities. 

Latinamerican people, the poor people of the Latinamerican Developing Countries, as well as the poor people in so many developing countries, are suffering since EVER in many ways because of long-term unemployment, intoxication, contamination, physical attacks to push them out of their ancestral lands and to be left excluded in poorer areas. All of our communities in Argentina are suffering the consequences of contamination of our soil, air, water natural resources with mining and agribusiness activities of multinational monopolies. Our yet fertile soils will become deserts in not so long term... What goes on in this world that is driven by selfish madness and ilimited greed of few people that have power...???  The Economic Power of the First World is taking out all our natural resources and destroying our ecosystems, killing LIFE in the vulnerable biodiversity, contaminating our water natural resources, our soil, intoxicating our people, etc.etc.etc. 

GREED, SELFISHNESS, LIES, HYPOCRISY, are the values and principles that push people of economic power in the First World since ever. 

This is the only truth that explains everything pretty much. 

Whoever doesn’t want to see or understand this… it’s simply because he or she feels the same and shares with them the same purposes: to earn more and more BLOODSTAINED MONEY, to hoard PROPERTIES insatiably, etc.etc.etc.

We need to multiplicate our voices exponentially. We have to awaken more and more people all around the world from the basis of this feudal social pyramid. We need to be more and more people all around the World to take notice of this dramatic situation, that makes us feel this same anguish and distress in order to try to change this suicidal way straight to an abyss without return…

Please, you have to visit these other web sites for more information given by suitable professionals of all around the world.

http://www.crisisenergetica.org/

http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/

http://oilsmokeandmirrors.com/

WE HAVE TO , WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS SUICIDAL WAY STRAIGHT TO AN ABYSS WITHOUT RETURN…!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I need to tell you what I feel, what I think, what I FEAR for our own future, for the future of our little ones. It´s not enough to change “some” things in this “necrotic” system… We have to change most EVERYTHING if we wish a better future for our own children… please…!!! In the U.S.A. as in Canada, Europe, Japan, China and all the developed countries, the present culture of ilimited consuming habits has to be radically changed to the opposite culture of total AUSTERITY.</p>
<p>I think it’s time for all humankind to be conscious about reality. It’s not possible to go on with this irrational level of industrialization. </p>
<p>Humankind MUST STOP making so many frivolous and unnecessary luxurious products, all dispensable in this necrotic system of ilimited consumption. Our very toxic and contaminating garbage is growing in exponential degree, as well as human population does. Neverending contamination…!!! </p>
<p>Natural resources will soon be exhausted, so the logical reaction SHOULD BE to walk back the same way that brought us all up to this irrational point of neverending consumption. </p>
<p>DECREASE IS one of the two alternatives we have, but the ONLY LOGICAL ALTERNATIVE that IS LEFT in this PATHETIC REALITY that INVOLVES US ALL. The another one is to go on in the same very dramatically wrong way we are since ever.</p>
<p>Industrialization has to DIMINISH to the minimun necessary and vital level. </p>
<p>It’s needed a radical change in all steps of Education to provide the technical, mechanical, manual knowledge to go back to our grandparents’ times or to the style of the Amish people, in order to prepare our children to be able to get their own daily sustenance from mother earth, taking care of it naturally and without agrotoxical and chemical industrialized products. Familiar or community farms, with agricultural cooperatives in small communities should be encouraged to be done elsewhere for the self-sufficiency of goods and supplies. Recycling, restoration, recovering, reparing activities with manual and handicraft labours should be the alternative jobs in the near future for our children, activities of minimum fossil fuels requiry. </p>
<p>Please, do all what is possible for you to encourage the whole World to STOP PRODUCING cars, electronical supplies incompatible with new ones that forces people all around the world to buy new elements instead, luxurious materials, most everything no biodegradable and with very toxic components, etc.etc.etc. Industrialization should be diminished to its minimun necessary level!!!!! </p>
<p>Instead, it has to be produced all types of spare parts to recycle, restore, repare, recover all types of things that we have; all types of manual and mechanical elements must be produced for all types of jobs and labours of minimum fossil fuels requiry.  </p>
<p>WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT ARE STILL LEFT… </p>
<p>NO other alternative energy will be able to sustaine this irrational level of neverending consumption. It’s not enough to go on studying other alternative energies in this irrational and neverending necrotic system of insatiable industrialization. </p>
<p>We are all destroying our unique Planet, we are destroying LIFE elsewhere, contaminating water, air, soil, and intoxicating PEOPLE with MINING and AGRIBUSINESS activities. </p>
<p>Latinamerican people, the poor people of the Latinamerican Developing Countries, as well as the poor people in so many developing countries, are suffering since EVER in many ways because of long-term unemployment, intoxication, contamination, physical attacks to push them out of their ancestral lands and to be left excluded in poorer areas. All of our communities in Argentina are suffering the consequences of contamination of our soil, air, water natural resources with mining and agribusiness activities of multinational monopolies. Our yet fertile soils will become deserts in not so long term&#8230; What goes on in this world that is driven by selfish madness and ilimited greed of few people that have power&#8230;???  The Economic Power of the First World is taking out all our natural resources and destroying our ecosystems, killing LIFE in the vulnerable biodiversity, contaminating our water natural resources, our soil, intoxicating our people, etc.etc.etc. </p>
<p>GREED, SELFISHNESS, LIES, HYPOCRISY, are the values and principles that push people of economic power in the First World since ever. </p>
<p>This is the only truth that explains everything pretty much. </p>
<p>Whoever doesn’t want to see or understand this… it’s simply because he or she feels the same and shares with them the same purposes: to earn more and more BLOODSTAINED MONEY, to hoard PROPERTIES insatiably, etc.etc.etc.</p>
<p>We need to multiplicate our voices exponentially. We have to awaken more and more people all around the world from the basis of this feudal social pyramid. We need to be more and more people all around the World to take notice of this dramatic situation, that makes us feel this same anguish and distress in order to try to change this suicidal way straight to an abyss without return…</p>
<p>Please, you have to visit these other web sites for more information given by suitable professionals of all around the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crisisenergetica.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.crisisenergetica.org/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://oilsmokeandmirrors.com/" rel="nofollow">http://oilsmokeandmirrors.com/</a></p>
<p>WE HAVE TO , WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS SUICIDAL WAY STRAIGHT TO AN ABYSS WITHOUT RETURN…!!!</p>
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