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	<description>In the low-energy economy of the future, there&#039;ll be lots of useful jobs to go around. They just won&#039;t involve working in cubicle farms, tapping on keyboards in front of glowing flatscreens, or commuting very far, thank god.</description>
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		<title>speculation about faster collapse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another thread we got to talking about fast collapse here in the UPL and what forms it might take and what its drivers and triggers might be.
This is in the context of a fast collapse being loosely defined as one that takes place so quickly and so systematically (ie, spread over large areas or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futuretowniesofamerica.wordpress.com&blog=7563670&post=318&subd=futuretowniesofamerica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>giving a hand [bag] for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the interests of making my sewing area look a little more festive and Christmas-y (not to mention adding some quiet background light that uses very little energy) I&#8217;ve put some decorative light strings to different use:
This works nicely because my place is so small (1BR, approx 320sf) that most parts of it need to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futuretowniesofamerica.wordpress.com&blog=7563670&post=310&subd=futuretowniesofamerica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>sew what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for this divergent-from-normal post here, but I just learned that a friend is taking sewing lessons and I&#8217;m psyched to hear about it. Another friend (a former coworker) was given a sewing machine recently and she&#8217;s been using it to make crafty type things out of scraps. I am really mega-glad for both of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futuretowniesofamerica.wordpress.com&blog=7563670&post=304&subd=futuretowniesofamerica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>poll question 28 Nov 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poll question for Americans in general:
Do you feel it was a good idea for the US government, over the past 40+ years, to give financial advantages (tax breaks, incentives, etc) to American companies so that they could shed the expenses of operating their businesses in the US (paying honest union wages &#38; benefits, respecting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futuretowniesofamerica.wordpress.com&blog=7563670&post=302&subd=futuretowniesofamerica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>darkness falls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[some updates from the blogger Anya in Iceland]
Another collapse .. anothe collapse .. another
I can not start to explain how tiring it is to listen to the endless &#8220;threats&#8221; of another collapse. Really ..
Now it seems like everything will cause another giant collapse like the one a year ago. Honestly .. its like &#8220;wolf wolf&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=futuretowniesofamerica.wordpress.com&blog=7563670&post=287&subd=futuretowniesofamerica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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