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		<title>Hit the Brakes? Or Full Speed Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Superlinear systems, permaculture, and Gandhi</title>
		<link>http://deepchange.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/superlinear-systems-permaculture-and-ghandi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moving from sub-linear to supra-linear: Permaculture? How narrow compartmentalised &#8216;single bottom line&#8217; fragility is not only a characteristic of capitalism and corporations but civilisation (city-focused society) as a whole, based as it is on linear growth. Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute points out unintentionally how the sublinear physical processes of the complex adaptive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=118&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ecological Cognition: The Entheogenic Revolution</title>
		<link>http://deepchange.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/ecological-cognition-the-entheogenic-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 06:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair McGowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Maybe we never left Eden after all. Maybe it was a kind of self-enforced exile&#8217; -Simon G. Powell Entheogens are substances which enhance our perception of the inherent intelligence in nature, its external-internal continuum. In the documentary Manna and the associated book The Psilocybin Solution Simon Powell discusses psilocybin&#8217;s potential to reawaken our ecological mind. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=107&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Authoritarians &#8211; A Potentially Terminal Global Epidemic</title>
		<link>http://deepchange.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/the-authoritarians-a-potentially-terminal-global-epidemic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair McGowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does he keep on about this book ‘The Authoritarians’? What has it to do with sustainability and resilience? The answers are all there in the book: The personality condition known as Authoritarian Follower (RWA) and their counterparts the Social Dominance Oriented (SDO) leaders are what lead to Hitler’s Germany and many other violent and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=106&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Negative Interest Currency for a Sustainable Resilient Prosperous Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair McGowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Negative Interest Currency or &#8216;Stamp Scrip&#8217; The Stamp Scrip Monetary System is an elegant solution for sustainability, poverty, and for flattening the economic power hierarchy of the current state of capitalism. I have turned this idea over and over in my head since I learned of it ten years ago. The more I have thought about it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=104&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resilient Community: Rhizome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair McGowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The information society, open source knowledge, and efficient peer-to-peer problem solving represent an immense step forward, a revolution in problem solving that could help overgrow previous social structures based on high energy waste. Joseph Tainter argues that we are in this current mess because problem solving is making civilization more and more energy inefficient. However, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=100&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Authoritarian Embrace</title>
		<link>http://deepchange.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/the-authoritarian-embrace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 07:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair McGowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article I wrote at Dissident Voice (linked below) describes the Authoritarian Personality and its role in politics, specifically in terms of fascism. The basic traits from Bob Altemeyer&#8217;s research on the subject is described and illustrated. The traits of fascism are listed in relation to the Tea Party movement. The same characteristics however can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=98&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Heads Up on the Potential for Fascism</title>
		<link>http://deepchange.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/a-heads-up-on-the-potential-for-fascism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair McGowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In modern democracy we trust. But it is precisely in the context of modern industrial democracy that fascism &#8211; bred by right wing authoritarianism &#8211; can take a hold. The article linked here at Cognitive Policy Works (George Lakoff&#8217;s spin off from the Rockridge Institute) refers to current events in the US but other Western [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=93&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Transition</title>
		<link>http://deepchange.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/the-great-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair McGowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a writer deeply focused on the machinations of the security apparatus. He is also a multidisciplinary analyst who is now seeing what we from the sustainability perspective have seen for decades. This is that it is all interconnected: A world of finite resources, the fundamental drivers of the hierarchical social order [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=89&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Increase or decrease complexity?</title>
		<link>http://deepchange.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/increase-or-decrease-complexity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair McGowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009 Joseph Tainter warned again about the way complex societies collapse.&#160; (a transcript can be found here http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5745). Tainter is of the view that reducing complexity is not a viable long term solution and that increasing problem solving though socio-economic complexity is required because ‘…long-term sustainability depends on solving major societal problems that will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deepchange.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10619178&amp;post=88&amp;subd=deepchange&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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