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	<title>Agroblogger &#187; Appropriate Technology</title>
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		<title>Permaculture the Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/11/23/permaculture-the-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  The clock is still ticking, and collapse continues unabated.  Most are oblivious to the true nature of the progression, what it means, why it's happening, and most importantly, what we should do about it. 

  &#160;But the answer is simple, and it's right in front of us.  It's so simple, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reprap Machine Podcast Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/13/reprap-machine-podcast-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/13/reprap-machine-podcast-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you've been eagerly awaiting the publication of part II of the Reprap machine podcast, it's been published here.&#160; So, what are you waiting for, go listen. &#160;
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		<title>New OSAT Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/07/new-osat-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/07/new-osat-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agroinnovations-Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Agroinnovations has published a new OSAT poll via the podcast page.  Here it is:


What will push Open Source Appropriate Technology forward most quickly:




More and better online documentation

Deeper engagement with local communities

Getting a reprap machine in as many hands as possible

More open licensing from tech developers

Take your pick, and go vote.  You can vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-replicating Machines in a Podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/05/self-replicating-machines-in-a-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/05/self-replicating-machines-in-a-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reprap]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Agroinnovations Podcast has recently published the first part of an interview with Andrew Bowyer, the founder and lead researcher on the Reprap Project.&#160; The OSAT revolution continues, and it's just about moving faster than we can keep track of.&#160; To learn more about reprap, listen to the podcast available here.&#160; Part II will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSAT: Mass produced or distributed?</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/30/osat-mass-produced-or-distributed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/30/osat-mass-produced-or-distributed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass-production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The argument of mass production versus distributed production at this stage of the game, in my opinion, is a false dichotomy.&#160; Personally, and ideologically, I lean towards distributed production, but I do not think that this has to be at the expense of mass production models of manufacturing.&#160; Mass production will always have a place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Replicating Machines and the Edge of the Sword: A Distillation</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/19/self-replicating-machines-and-the-edge-of-the-sword-a-distillation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/19/self-replicating-machines-and-the-edge-of-the-sword-a-distillation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading what Lucas has been brilliantly putting out over the past 48 hours or so, the picture becomes clearer...we're getting closer.&#160; If anyone needs a quick catch-up, the real edge of the sword is the reprap machine.&#160; As per this website:&#160;RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is [a] practical self-copying 3D printer... - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Need a Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/18/we-need-a-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/18/we-need-a-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fab-Lab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSAT]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If it's true that what we are doing, while it may help many of us mitigate the chain reaction effects of collapse, might be too little, too late, then we need to really think hard about what will change that circumstance.&#160;Lucas has been addressing this over at the Global Swadeshi Network, and I take many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Test</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/17/twitter-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/17/twitter-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've installed the Twitter Updater plugin for this blog, and am just writing this post to test it out.&#160; Now, if only I could figure out how to get an RSS feed for Lonnie's nopanacea Stumbleupon page...
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		<title>OSAT Emerging&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/17/osat-emerging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/17/osat-emerging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
As a movement, we have arrived.&#160; When I first started writing about this topic, the idea was a nascent one, and the movement nearly non-existent.&#160; Now, within less than 24 hours, my last post &#34;Too Little, Too Late&#34; has generated a buzz within our community.&#160;&#160; Here are some of the exchanges.
Vinay wrote:Another way of thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too little, too late?</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/16/too-little-too-late/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/16/too-little-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collapse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Since 2005 I have been a strong advocate for the development of open source appropriate technology (OSAT).&#160; Since then much has happened on this front.&#160; It was an idea that I can hardly take credit for, as this was something fermenting in the minds of innovators all around the world.&#160; Chris Watkins of Appropedia has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Real Transition</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/11/25/a-real-transition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/11/25/a-real-transition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An earnest attempt to encourage the inevitable transition of our economies would place small business at the center of the strategy.&#160; Now personally, because of my libertarian leanings, I am not one to put much faith in government programs and massive intervention, but seeing as we are already spending upwards of 7 trillion dollars on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source AT: What&#8217;s Next?</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/18/open-source-at-whats-next/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/18/open-source-at-whats-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/18/open-source-at-whats-next/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
    It has been almost two years since I first began advocating for adapting an Open Source model to the development of Appropriate Technology.  Naturally, my ideas did not develop in a vacuum, and a number of other groups were already working on the same concept, thinking the same thoughts, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Is Common Sense</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/23/green-is-common-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/23/green-is-common-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    Right-wing media outlets often portray those of us who advocate for the greening of the globe as &#34;liberal&#34; big-government wackos whose ideas have no place in the hard-nosed scrabble of policy debate. Their portrayal notwithstanding, the green movement is in fact one of the most common sense, community-oriented and self-reliant philosophies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Fabrication Bridges the Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/19/personal-fabrication-bridges-the-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/19/personal-fabrication-bridges-the-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    As we have seen, technocracy meant the concentration of capital and its associated productive capacity in the hands of the &#34;literate&#34;.  The consequences of this historical process were negative for democracy and community autonomy.  Now, because globalization is connecting the world's communities to a number of inherently unstable lifeline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duality</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/17/duality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/17/duality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

    It was Descartes who was accused of splitting the world in two, between the material and the spiritual.  In accord with a trend that began in the Renaissance, Descartes had inadvertently and finally delegated the indigenous knowledge of the artisan to the wood shops of history.  
   [...]]]></description>
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