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		<title>The Capitalist Ethos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article, which I came across while researching the growth of social media, says something important about the modern capitalist ethos. In response to declining revenues in the first quarter of 2009, Google has &#8220;imposed severe cost controls and slashed expenses&#8221;.  These actions are praised as mature and rational.  The very next paragraph then tells [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=192&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Action: BC&#8217;s Universities and Colleges Begin to Become Carbon Neutral</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of 2007 the BC government enacted the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act which put into law the greenhouse gas reduction commitments made in the province’s Climate Action Plan.  Specifically, the province is now legally committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions:  6% below 2007 emission levels by 2012, 18% by 2016, 33% by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=176&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Vancouver Commons Episode 2: Citizen Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ChangeCamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizen Engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How can we help government become more open and responsive? How do we as citizens organize to get better outcomes ourselves? These questions form the basis of a conference called Vancouver ChangeCamp happening on June 20.  A few weeks ago I sat down with Reilly Yeo and Steve Williams, two of the organizers, to talk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=166&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two excellent videos worth watching</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanities & Social Sciences]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1) The Story of Stuff 2) The Crisis of Credit Visualized: Part 1, and Part 2<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=129&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Vancouver Commons Episode 1: Busker Idol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vancouver Commons -  Podcast Episode 1 (18 minutes) Download the mp3 file Have you found yourself listening to a really good busker and wishing there was some way, more than just tossing a loonie, to show your appreciation?  Well Karen Fung has and it led her to conceive of Busker Idol. &#8220;Busker Idol encourages [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=111&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything that can be recycled in Vancouver &#8211; and where to do it.</title>
		<link>http://crashwebster.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/everything-that-can-be-recycled-in-vancouver-and-where-to-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Information received from an officer at the Recycling Council of BC in response to an email inquiry.  Please help me keep this list up to date by commenting. STYROFOAM: *Regardless of whether or not it has recycling number Packaging Styrofoam: Unfortunately, styrofoam recycling is limited in British Columbia. We only know of two companies in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=81&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Culture of Prevention</title>
		<link>http://crashwebster.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/creating-a-culture-of-prevention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received by email this morning from the City of Vancouver&#8217;s Drug Policy Program. &#8212;- Creating a Culture of Prevention The City of Vancouver’s Drug Policy Program (DPP) invites you to set aside March 25 for a day-long event focusing on prevention of harm from substance use. The DPP is working with a broad-based coalition to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=78&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Fog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vancouver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taken Sunday afternoon just before the sun burned the fog away to reveal brilliant blue sky. From 2009<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=75&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The International Assembly &#8211; a new concept for international relations</title>
		<link>http://crashwebster.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/the-international-assembly-a-new-concept-for-international-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanities & Social Sciences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent final exam, I was asked the following question: Assume that you have the power to change the manner in which nations deal with one another. Assume that the United Nations has hired you to propose a new order of international co-operation to reform “world governance” in all areas of international law and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=62&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A letter to Carole Taylor in support of doing something</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mrs Taylor; In August of this year, I will be getting married. A few years after that, I plan to have children. Some nights I lie awake and wonder what kind of world they will inherit. For this reason I am strongly in favor of action to reduce carbon emissions and halt the trend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crashwebster.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1167101&amp;post=61&amp;subd=crashwebster&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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